Young Writers discussion

Haha have fun choosing.

Fifty Shades of Grey.

Not funny, Brigid. XD

It's the greatest love story ever written.

CHOOSE??? YOUR MAKING ME CHOOSE? NOOOOO. I WILL NOT CHOOSEEEE!

Holden wrote: "THE BOOK THIEF."

Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!* wrote: "It's the greatest love story ever written."

Excuse me? Twilight is the best love story ever written, you uncultured jerk.

Holden wrote: "Lav wrote: "Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!* wrote: "It's the greatest love story ever written."

Excuse me? Twilight is the best love story ever written, you uncultured jerk."

It's almost like you gu..."

JANE AUSTEN. That is all.

Sorry, you're right Holden. My Immortal is just so amazing.

Hmm that's a good question. Uhhh. I mean, I have my favorite romances but I don't know if they're the "best love story ever written" since there are like a billion books I haven't read. I think the romance in the Chaos Walking books gave me the most feels; Todd and Viola are both such great characters and they get through so much crap to be together, and it's such a huge merciless emotional roller coaster. Gaahh. (view spoiler)[And then in the end Todd is possibly dead and the last line in the whole thing is about him trying to come back to life for her and UGGH IT'S TOO MUCH I JUST CAN'T. (hide spoiler)] But yeah. So. I don't really know what the best romance ever written is, but that's the one that I love the most.

I don't think I believe there's a single "greatest love story" and I don't even really have a favorite. Mainly because love is so different between different people and it's something that fascinates me. I love the way it changes, and so I could never say that any love is better than another. (Except for, like, saying that Hazel and Augustus trumped Bella and Edward.)

Okay, let me lay down the law right now. Pride and Prejudice is the best because it pretty much set the standard for all realistic romances (i.e. the guy starts out a dork).

All romances? What about guys who aren't dorks? DO THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO TRUE LOVE? ;)

*bites back comments that would make a feminist turn beet red*

...uh, apparently. But we've had this conversation. No need for round two.

Holden wrote: "Ah yes, that's more what I was meaning to say. :-P

Hehe, mine is this lil' bookBUT I CAN EXPLAIN. So obviously this is an unpopular opinion but hear me out. Okay, so you've got Shakespeare, one..."

Hmm, I never really thought of it that way. It is a very interesting relationship. ;)

Umm the greatest love story of all time.

Anna and St. Clair. Haha KIDDING. (kind of)

I haven't read enough classic literature to really judge. But for now, I'll probably go with Darcy and Elizabeth.

I don't know, really hard question.

Ah, yeah, I love Darcy and Elizabeth. And Anna and St. Clair, haha.

Mi'ter Darcy...*drools*

Annie wrote: "Umm the greatest love story of all time.

Anna and St. Clair. Haha KIDDING. (kind of)

I haven't read enough classic literature to really judge. But for now, I'll probably go with Darcy and Elizabe..."

Anna and St. Clair are the bomb. And so are Darcy and Elizabeth. So yeah, good choices.

I don't really feel like I've read a great love story yet.

Waaait, scratch that. Patton and Lena from Fablehaven were my OTP before I knew what OTPs were. They aren't the focus of the story--you learn a little about their love in the first book and the rest in the third--but my oh my, they are a beautiful couple. Huge rant/summary ahead: (view spoiler)[Patton gets curious about the naiads, curious enough to end up learning their names and fancying one of them, and he freaking builds a boat house so he can go out on the lake, risking his life just to talk to her. He sees Lena when she's at her weakest mental state. As a naiad, all she knows is drowning people for sport and finding little ways to fill her extremely long life. She's very simple-minded and it's not even her fault, really. But Patton sees something in her--who knows what it could have been. And he tries everything. He writes and reads poetry to her, plays the violin, teases her, asks her to leave the water and live a better life with him. By doing this, he brings out the human side in Lena and she begins to think of someone other than herself. She even saves him when he leans too close to the water and her friends try to drown him. And then she leaves behind the pond and becomes human to marry him. They live such a beautiful life. Lena has a longer lifespan, though, so she has to watch him die and then wander the world, trying to find her place, but she just ends up back where they started.
And, after Lena is made a naiad again against her will, because of timey-wimey stuff, she gets to see Patton again. For him, it's only a few years after they married, and for her, he's already dead. She leaves the pond for him again even though she can only be with him for three days. She ends up sacrificing her life so Patton doesn't endanger his and risk their marriage never happening, and just UGH THE FEELS. Here. Have some fanart from tumblr. (hide spoiler)] And yeah, this book series is one of my favorites, so I'm still on topic. XD

XD Patton is amazing. If it weren't for Mr. Darcy being better, I'd want to be like Patton.

Also, Percabeth.

Oh yeah Percabeth! I love them so much.

YES. I still need to read the third Gemma Doyle book, though.

Lav wrote: "YES. I still need to read the third Gemma Doyle book, though."

Oh boy, prepare to have your soul crushed. HAHA. It's good, though.

Oh no.

Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!* wrote: "Lav wrote: "YES. I still need to read the third Gemma Doyle book, though."

Oh boy, prepare to have your soul crushed. HAHA. It's good, though."

Ugh, yeah. That book. It's very distressing.

Lav wrote: "Oh no."

What are these books?

Oh, those books. I'll think about picking them up. Love the genre, though Going Bovine scared me off, because it is probably the worst published work I've read....

They're very different from that book. Libba has a really broad range of genres and styles.

Yeah, they're not like Going Bovine. At all. Like Lav said, Libba Bray has a tendency to experiment with very different styles and each of her projects is quite different from the others. I guess The Diviners (which is also amazing) is kind of similar to Gemma Doyle ... but yeah, typically she genre-hops a lot.

I need to read more of her work. I've only read the Gemma Doyle books and Going Bovine.

It's one of the most inspiring pieces of work I've read. I wish it were more widely read -- it has potential to be a classic 100 years from now.

The Book Thief is fairly well-known I think ... but it does still deserve more recognition. Definitely one of my favorite books ever. I plan to re-read it soon. Also, have you guys read I am the Messenger? That book is amazing too. So yeah. Markus Zusak. <3 He's also really attractive. It's not fair.

Lav wrote: "I need to read more of her work. I've only read the Gemma Doyle books and Going Bovine."

Ahhh well you have to read The Diviners. It's so good. Besides that her only other novel is Beauty Queens ... which is still entertaining, but you can kind of tell she just wrote it for the lulz; it's funny but it doesn't really have a plot. She's also done stories for a few short story collections ... But I'm more a fan of her novels.

Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!* wrote: "The Book Thief is fairly well-known I think ... but it does still deserve more recognition. Definitely one of my favorite books ever. I plan to re-read it soon. Also, have you guys read I am the Me..."

Yes! I loved that book. It's way different than TBT, but I loved the style and characters and I laughed and cried and it was great. And yes, he's very handsome. I mean, he's not that much older than me... It could work, okay? xD

Haha yes, exactly. Very different, but also fantastic. Hilarious, beautiful, depressing ... It's so good. And yes, he's only ... 37. Only 17 years older than me. That's not too bad.

I mean, people with bigger age gaps get married all the time. It's not a big deal.

Controversial opinion but I actually liked I Am the Messenger more than The Book Thief. wowowow Annie you crazy!

I liked them both in different ways so I can't really say which one I liked more because I can't really compare them.

Yeah like I think The Book Thief is really good obviously but I've reread IATM like five times and for some reason it just resonates more with me more. Which is kind of weird because TBT is SO powerful I dunno. I also haven't read the book thief for like four years so that might have something to do with it

Go read it again. Starting now.

I haven't touched IATM yet. Soon, maybe.

...yeah right. I'll forget within the hour.

Annie wrote: "Yeah like I think The Book Thief is really good obviously but I've reread IATM like five times and for some reason it just resonates more with me more. Which is kind of weird because TBT is SO powe..."

Yeah, that definitely makes sense. And the way everything ties in at the at the end was so perfect and like woah mind bloooown.

Annie wrote: "Yeah like I think The Book Thief is really good obviously but I've reread IATM like five times and for some reason it just resonates more with me more. Which is kind of weird because TBT is SO powe..."

I think also I Am The Messenger is easier to personally relate to. Obviously The Book Thief is very powerful, but none of us have experienced the Holocaust and it's a difficult subject to tackle because it's something so horrific that it's pretty much incomprehensible. And while Markus Zusak does a damn good job of making it more relatable, I see how it could be easier to find a personal connection to I Am The Messenger––since it's a simpler and more modern plot, and it's more just about how we can all do tiny things to make the world a better place.

I doubt it's the worst library. We've nicknamed our local library "The Bookshelf" because it literally has four bookcases total. I expect we have well under 1,000 titles.

Taylor [formerly Timothy] wrote: "I doubt it's the worst library. We've nicknamed our local library "The Bookshelf" because it literally has four bookcases total. I expect we have well under 1,000 titles."

Wow, that's really depressing.

It's all one room.

Wait, it's bigger than I thought. We have four quarter-sized shelves of children's books, two full for YA, two full for adult, and one for nonfiction.

Still less than a thousand books, though. But we have Fifty Shades! XD

It's all good. I just go to the one in the neighboring city. See, just over the hill is a whole other county and their own system of libraries. We can request books from other libraries within the system, so it's more like having tens of thousands of books that are easily accessible.

No, I'm talking about two libraries. My local one is the Bookshelf. The one in the neighboring city is the rockin' one.