Comments on Profile Post by Chinizz

Any particular books that you feel influenced the world, Chinizz? :P

Also, do you feel the 'accuracy' with which a book portrays the world (directly or via an allegory) has any impact on the kind of influence it has on the world? XP

anayway, who does read books today?

Me? I have 11 sitting next to me on my desk. :P

So, anyone ever heard of the phenomenon Tolkin described as "eucatastrophe"?

you mean this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucatastrophe, yeah I've already heard about that. I read book.

You've read 'On Fairy-Stories'? It's a good read, no? :)

uhm... no, I've just read the Silmarillon, Bilbo, Lotr, the fall of Gondolin and the Children of Hurin.

I don't read this much Fantasy. What are you reading now FBB?

Ah, good old eucatastrophe. I'm used to seeing that at the end of books. I only know about the phrase because my english teacher is that sort of guy. :P

@Chinizz: it's an essay he wrote on the subject of mythopoeia (of which eucatastrophe is a crucial part).

@Hella: funny thing I've found with many books where the author seems to be trying for eucatastrophe is that they generally end with a trite "happy ending" instead (or, peripeteia [better] or deus ex machina [much, much worse]).

I guess these are things which help towards having a decent ending. Too many books simply flop at the end. :'(

True dat. ;S

In general most books aught to function on peripeteia ("a change by which the action veers round to its opposite, subject always to our rule of probability or necessity." ~Aristotle), but tragically many authors forget that. It's a rare book that actually uses eucatastrophe ("a good accident" ~me) well.

And does someone prefer classic to modern books?
As for an ex, whose books do you prefer - Tolstoy or Palahniuk?

I'd say it depends which books. Some of the classics just outclass basically everything, but in other cases the writing style of yore just annoys me and I want to read something comparably simply.

I love Dostoïevsky, Bukowsky, H.S. Thompson, Henry Miller, Hemingway, Louis Ferdiand Céline, and sex...

You're not a D. H. Lawrence fan, are you? -.-

I may be, but Im not. I've never read anybook of Lawrence.

That's okay then. I don't have to write you off as a horrible person. :p

You think that I'm an horrible person? :p

No, but I think Lawrence is. :p

Also, in reply to your asking what I'm currently reading/have sitting on my desk:

Velvet Elvis ~R.Bell
There's a word for it! ~C.H.Elster
Foyle's Philavery ~C.Foyle
My Utmost for His Highest ~O.Chambers
Bible
Knowing God ~J.I.Packer
Metalwork ~A.J.Moroney

On Writing Well ~W.Zinsser
Historians' Fallacies ~D.H.Fischer
The Prince ~N.Machiavelli
Hamlet on the Holodeck ~J.H.Murray
The Rod & Staff English Handbook
The Art of War ~Sun Tzu
Art of War ~N.Machiavelli

A Spectator's Guide to World Religions ~J.Dickson
Gödel, Escher, Bach ~D.R.Hofstadter
Lord, I Want to Be Whole ~S.Omartian
The Backyard Blacksmith ~L.Sims
And a Kindle, with another 20-odd books on it.

I read a lot. :p

Wooa, quite impressive.