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[meme] WELL THIS IS FITTING TODAY book meme book meme
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gimme some questions
kates!!
4, 8, and 14!
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1, 6
PriestBlaster20
7 11 21 !
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4 
WELL.....
WELL.....
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but excluding all the books i wrote down from the goodreads choice awards list - The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11, by Garrett M. Graff
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(i have multiple tbr lists in multiple places but i think that one from my goodreads want-to-read shelf is my most recent add)
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8. hardcover! if i really love a book i inevitably want a nice hardcover copy of it, if at all possible
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paperbacks i generally get used and then pass on via bookcrossing
dead characters
20, 32
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14. OH MAN i have a few; The Hunger Games is always the first that jumps to mind
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Room, too, though i did also really love the book and there are a few book-only bits that i really wish they'd kept in the adaptation, even if on the whole i prefer the film by just a little bit
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SPICY TAKE but The Lord of the Rings
kates!!
that's a spicy take that I highly appreciate
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i've held that opinion since age 13, and i was highly ashamed of it at the time because i thought it made me a poser and a bad book fan
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but fuck it, tolkien was a much better linguist and world-builder than he was a character writer imo and the films were so good
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1. The Undocumented Americans, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio; i finished listening to the audio this morning
PriestBlaster20
i feel like the hunger games might be the spicier take there tbh
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amazing, heartrending, wonderfully written, fully recommend
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PriestBlaster20
oh man really, every time i've mentioned it irl and online i tend to get way more agreement about THG than LOTR
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but i also admittedly know way more tolkien superfans than i know hunger games superfans
PriestBlaster20
interesting ! my experience is the other way around...contentious either way but i respect it
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my first online fandom was LOTR and i spent my late middle school/early high school years being extremely active on an AOL LOTR message board, which definitely colors things
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me, age 14: I CANNOT TELL THE BOARDIES I THINK TOLKIEN'S PROSE IS DRY, THEY WOULD LOOK DOWN ON ME
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I feel like I've seen "the hunger games movies improved on the books" fairly often from critics, but definitely not often for lotr
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the books should have been in third person!!
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hunger games, that is
kates!!
I think that it helps that Hunger Games as a fandom has kind of died off at this point? whereas LOTR fandom is always going to be around and is always going to have Very Aggressive Opinions about things
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for sure
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6) THIS IS HARD i'm sitting here going "well, what ~counts~ as really, really loved"
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if rereads count, Passage by Connie Willis! but for only new reads, hmmmm
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maaaaaybe The Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli???? i read it over a year ago and i've loved other new reads since then, but that's probably the most recent one that's really come close to that TOP TOP TIER
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7. i bought When The Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen with an audible credit last night
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i rarely buy physical copies of books these days; i trade them around (bookcrossing, little free libraries, etc.) or get them from the library
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OH NO WAIT i actually bought audible's daily deal today so my most recent purchase was actually The Verge by Patrick Wyman
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11. mostly modern! there are plenty of classics that i've read and enjoyed, or even loved, but most of my favorite books were written within my own lifetime
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i think the whys of it are just... exposure? if 90% of the books i read are relatively recent releases and i only end up truly adoring 10% of the books i read (i'm tough with my ratings!!), then the "truly adore" and "a classic" labels aren't going to overlap much
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sometimes i'm tempted to make blanket statements like "well i just prefer modern writing styles" but tbh i don't think that's it; the modern and classic books i've read have all had a pretty wide variety of writing styles
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i also sometimes feel like older writers had more of a tendency to write their characters as Symbols or Archetypes rather than actual human beings, which is off-putting to me, but that's likely leftover high school english class bias rather than actual truth and i can still think of a million exceptions off the top of my head
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21. MAN idk i generally don't theme my reads for seasons haha
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The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean? literally takes place in antarctica, so
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The Watch That Ends the Night by Allan Wolff because it's my favorite book of all time and it deserves to be read at any time throughout the year 
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I think the LotR movies are much better than the books and I HAVE NO GUILT. and I like the books! they're just very dry and needlessly long in someplaces lol.
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The Hobbit is much better
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(better than the LOTR books, and better than its own film adaptations)