or do you people read nothing? Why is this place so devoid of any kind of real content?
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Anonymous2006-02-04 12:52 (sage)
I'm reading GoF, great book DESU.
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Anonymous2006-02-04 15:38
This is a wapanese site and the japs don't really make a lot of english literature.
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Anonymous2006-02-04 19:56
reading sucks.
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Anonymous2006-02-05 5:05
>>3,4
I'm sure most of us here enjoy a good book. We just already read everything there is to read, and discussing books is not as fun as they are not usually filled with plotholes like animanga.
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Anonymous2006-02-15 3:37
What >>3 said, really. Waps can't really process anything meatier than plot progression, mythology arc and Kooky Characterz Lol. You're talking about a fanbase that nominates Ghost in the Shell and NGE as its 'cerebral' output.
Well, the same book can say different things to different people. Comparing what a book means to you with what it means to someone else is a good way to learn how that person thinks.
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Anonymous2006-02-28 17:25
I feel like books are too long. Also they often don't give you a good reason to continue reading them after you started. "Ok, this is a science fiction universe. The characters are ... smart, huh? Will that be it or is there something else coming up?"
I imagine it to be hard to come up with something interesting in every sentence or paragraph in a 300 page book. Instead people should just write short stories, like the copy-paste stories on 4chan. There is so much you can put into a single paragraph if you try hard enough. Limitations like that enhance creativity. I don't mind reading something several times if it also keeps my attention in the first go-through.
I wish there'd be a forum for freestyle shortstory writing so I could learn. Fanfiction seems to kindof miss the point, since it's the world/characters I'm interested in - the plot is merely a tool to try and introduce me to them.