Books You Can't Forget

[TheRedSnifit]

Blood Meridian is a very dark, very memorable book.

[Ashleg]

So is The Dark Portal by Robin Jarvis.

Strange, creepy, awesome...

[MeadowR]

^ I guess on that note I should say The Alchymist's Cat has stuck with me. I've even imagined about how I'd co-create a traditional animation of that before... in an ideal world. It would make such a great 2D film. Not really likely to happen... shame.

There are more books; I need to come back to this another time.

[Wylder Treejumper]

Silly as it may sound, the Dr. Seuss book Oh, the Places You'll Go! is special to me. My choir teacher got each of us one and wrote a little message to us inside, then read the book out loud to us at the final choir event of the year. I may have gotten something in my eye there at the end.


The message of the book is actually very profound, if you take the time to think about it.

[Ashleg]

^ I guess on that note I should say The Alchymist's Cat has stuck with me. I've even imagined about how I'd co-create a traditional animation of that before... in an ideal world. It would make such a great 2D film. Not really likely to happen... shame.

There are more books; I need to come back to this another time.

I'm hopefully getting that for my birthday. I haven't read it yet because I can't find it anywhere. Is it like the others? I know there are humans in it.

[Jetthebinturong]

Silly as it may sound, the Dr. Seuss book Oh, the Places You'll Go! is special to me. My choir teacher got each of us one and wrote a little message to us inside, then read the book out loud to us at the final choir event of the year. I may have gotten something in my eye there at the end.


The message of the book is actually very profound, if you take the time to think about it.

Seuss was often profound. It was sort of his trademark to write profound, meaningful stories, but package them in a child-friendly way.

Like, if you ever read The Lorax when you were a kid, did you never find it to be really depressing? Like, it's literally about a bitter industrialist lamenting over the many mistakes they made. But then at the end there's that little seed of hope (if you'll pardon the pun) that maybe the mistakes of the past generation can be put right by their successors.

Actually yeah, I love The Lorax. That's definitely a book I won't forget.

And then there's If I Ran the Zoo, which is about getting lost in a wild fantasy, but then realising that hey, maybe reality isn't that bad.

I have a lot of feelings about Seuss.

[Ashleg]

The Lorax book is good, but don't get me STARTED on the movie.

[Jetthebinturong]

I will never watch that movie.

[Ashleg]

Don't. Unless you do it for the memes.

[Delthion]

Alright, this needs revived for no other reason than I want to put some stuff in here.

Not books, but short stories:
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber - My favorite piece of writing. A tale of fear: how you're not truly living if you bow to fear and how any life is a good life if you stand in the face of fear in the end no matter how briefly.

Summer People - Can't quite explain this one to my satisfaction. I find a lot of myself in this story, a lot of my wants and fears and such summed up in it.

Both of those are by Ernest Hemingway who is definitely my favorite author. His books are good, some are excellent but his short stories are where he really shines.