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I just finished The Amber Spyglass five minutes ago and now I don't know what to do with myself.
May 19, 2013 12:17 PM
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ImageScienceGirl
Need to read more:P I've been so busy though
mistywhyte
Yes to all of this. I have long struggled to explain my obsession with reading to my friends. Have all my upvotes OP!
CleverClara
You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! This room's the greatest arsenal we could have - arm yourselves!
llabak
The ecard speaks with great wisdom.
Whitefeatheries
I agree with liking books more then people.
Ekajra
Liked and favorited when I got here:
, because it's true.
HereticsAllOfYou
Now get off of Imgur, stop talking about how great books are, and read a book!
DarkTowerRose
Clash of Kings, here I come!
sam1tahsin
Wow. I am reading the same book! Which part are you at?
DarkTowerRose
Now I'm at the part where Tyrion flushes out Cersei's spies and sends away all of the Lannister guards. So glad the library finally had it!
CFH4DMB
your books are my music
ZebadiahCarter
Created an account today after about a year of lurking, just so I could favorite this...
mamaumbridge
When I saw Markus Zusak's quote I thought about his books. Sorta says it all.
AshtheViking
The Book Thief floored me several times. Definitely one of those that stay with you long after you've put it down.
peoniesinkittylitter
I hate that many bookshops are going out of business. There's nothing better than browsing bookshelves and discovering new books and authors
pubeythemagiccarpetride
Stop reading to utter "fuck" or to actual yell at the characters in the fictional novel. that, that is when you know you're in deep.
veronicamarsiswatchingyou
I want a house with one huge library. I want to spend the rest of my life filling its shelves with memories. One day it'll happen.
allllrighteythen
It will stay with you until the very end. After Voldemort is dead. Narnia is gone. And Alice is awake. Wow.
mercemay
I really loved that one, a perfect sentiment.
ChrissiWit
damn, that's incredibly deep. took me by surprise if I'm honest
CallKennyLogginsCauseYoureInTheDangerZone
So basically the first picture says if you don't read, YOLO.
ladysigyn
Books are my best friends.
ANRosa
I love books I watch their movie adaptations all the time
fraxinusoleaceae
Love that at lest one of these was an ad for a bookshop, with the name cropped off. Don't just praise books; go say hello in person.
maximsk
Books-- they allow you to escape into an entirely different world! The only downside is, you have to come back.
JonElder
Movie scripts for the mind.
danutzbang
In all fairness, the first quote is by Jojen Reed. He's real to me. They all are!
somethingsomethingcold
I wish I liked reading. I feel like I'm missing out on so much :/
IfYouDontLikeItSuckMyDick
i agree with moisttaint and add that part of the trick is finding out what suits you. it's like a buffet. just rely on your own tastes.
SmallTeddyBear
First image: not true. Gaming allows you to live multiple lives without ever picking up a book. I like reading but Im just saying.
SaltCollector
The quote was said by a character in A Song of Ice and Fire, a medieval fantasy world where there is no electronic technology.
Thekingofbeans
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is a great story and comparable to great books that go on for hundreds of pages.
iTzHuGs
Still love going back and playing that and Majora's Mask every now and then. Those were my gateway games :)
stillcleaning
+1 for gateway games
gingerbaconkitty
Although, it doesn't really let you imagine what the world in the story looks and sounds like, because someone already did that for you.
WarlockTheWise
Implying my imagination is better than an artists rendition.
gingerbaconkitty
Nope, I'm just saying, your imagination can do amazing things if you let it.
crazypicsandstuff
Where do you think your imagination got its stock images from? Ignoring other peoples art only limits your own.
gingerbaconkitty
I'm not saying ignore it, I'm just saying in games, it's already done for you, with books you have to do it yourself.
KingOfTheImgurians
Lost it at "You crazy, pen"
ChomskyWouldnt
for some reason I read that one in Christoph Waltz's voice
corneliusgansevoort
Speaking of which, can anyone recommend me a good erotic dystopian cyberthriller?
Dreganius
Neuromancer - William Gibson.
Dreganius
Note: Not entirely erotic, but there is some rather erotic moments in it. Also it's practically the cyberpunk bible :P
ProsecutorsWillBeViolated
Seconded.
kaIIe
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross might fit that genre.
Hydrall
As an amateur writer, I can confirm that my pen (well, keyboard) often suggests very strange things.
KingOfTheImgurians
National Novel Writing Month?
thedoctorpotter
"Wait, you want me to kill off the main character's best friend? Because it will drive the plot forward? Silly keyboard!"
Hydrall
Any writing block can be surmounted by killing off enough named characters.
thedoctorpotter
I second that notion. Or just by having bad shit happen to your characters, which is also very interesting.
NeedsMoreDragQueenGifs
(1/2) The most bittersweet feeling I've ever felt is when I'm reading a book that I really love...
LongandLost
Yes, I hate how I get so into the book and I read faster and faster and then it's over. Done. Finished.
NeedsMoreDragQueenGifs
(2/2) and I can't slow down because everything is so amazing, and yet I know the faster I read, the sooner the end will come.
obscureallusion
ENDER'S. FUCKING. GAME.
wibblywobblytimeywimey
I know this feeling so very well. Also, that's obviously how this lady feels about chicken: http://imgur.com/R7eQL0G
NeedsMoreDragQueenGifs
hahaha thank you :)
wibblywobblytimeywimey
ask and ye shall receive! http://imgur.com/KALXYV3
ScruffyBelievesInThisCompany
(1/2) This happened to me. I delayed reading the last 100 pages of book 14 of the Wheel of Time. It had been with me for 14 years and I'd...
ScruffyBelievesInThisCompany
(2/2) grown up with these characters (I'm 27). I didn't want it to end.
momomeow
Finishing Dance of Dragons and knowning I have to wait like 3 years... ;___________;
ChrissiWit
I felt that way about "The Night Circus" I didn't want to put it down but I had to prolong it as long as possible.
rgfawkes
OMG! I read that recently and I just NEED that circus to be REAL SO I CAN GO!!!
ChrissiWit
I sincerely hope they don't fuck up the movie
maridoos
Yes, this. Many times. The strongest most recently was with The Help. I dIdn't want it to end...but I had to know! I read it in one sitting.
peoniesinkittylitter
Same here! I really want to know what happens but I don't want it to end. I try to delay finishing the book but my curiosity wins out.
captainsciencebutt
Sometimes I have to not read for several days after finishing an amazing book, just so I can mourn.
Thatsamalamutenotahusky
I haven't read since I finished Dance of Dragons 5 months ago. Which is very long for me. Im mouring.. and poutingthat the next one isnt out
remyg6
I'm reading that right now, I have a feeling I'll be the same way.
Thatsamalamutenotahusky
Enjoy it while it lasts!! Read slowly! Haha
meta666
That period of emptiness where you think there's nothing else you could possibly read that would compare... until the next time.
Hydrall
After I read the last Codex Alera book I just curled up on the couch and slept 'til suppertime.
ineedupvotestolive
When I finish reading a book it's kind of like losing a friend.
TheGreatMizuti
I do not understand that feeling at all. I'm curious as to why you feel that way. For me it's like I /gain/ a friend.
thesmokie
But that feel when you go back to it... it's like making a new friend all over again. :)
iTzHuGs
And every time, you get to discover new aspects of that friend.
melaniemeep
2. finish such a great book & I have to take a break afterwards for a few days, even weeks some times as I know nothing can live up to it
Threeskin
You can re-read it, though! :)
9thDr
Not for me. I spend time with all my friends. Years in and out.
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
I find i rarely read books that arent a series, if im going to get emotionally involved with characters i want them for atleast 3 books.
akroe
you don't lose him, you'll just miss him for a while 'till you meet again, and you'll feel home again ;)
MasterAsh
When I finish a series* well at least for me
ninjaboy56
the same way i had when i first read the books, i was profoundly sad (2/2)
ineedupvotestolive
Haha, I felt empty for days after finishing the last Harry Potter!
ninjaboy56
Man, when i finished off the last Harry Potter, and I realized that I would never again revisit those characters (1/2)
iwuvwainbows
Totally.
melaniemeep
1. There have been many books that I have savoured over a year or so, just reading a page here and there as I didn't want them to end. Or
Dynamohum
Sometimes I read the last pages of a good book really slow, just to savour it to the max before it enda.
RaultxO
A bittersweet feeling, and so extrange when you look around and no one seems to be sharing it.
HueJanus
As a man: I teared up just yesterday when I finished a favourite series of mine. Again.
icantthinkofanamerightnow
Which?
rayrjr
The greatest books of the last century: Twilight, obviously.
HueJanus
Old Man's War series.
IveHadFiveGuysInMeBeforeAndTheBurgerWasJustOkay
♫ Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high. Take a look, It's in a book. A Reading Rainbow. ♫
xman242
Reading Raaaaainbow!
EarthTourist
thanks, Levar
MarionTheLibrarian
Greatest nerd moment of my life: Levar Burton requested me as a friend on GoodReads... UNPROMPTED! Amazeballs!
IfYouDontLikeItSuckMyDick
you marvelous bastard.
FabulouslyTiti
IIIIIIII can go anywhere~! ♥
MeSoMerry
More fish for Kunta!
stillcleaning
and Roots is one of my favorite books. :)
Nomskull
That's my childhood! And Highlights... loads of Highlights!
HeliacalScion
For those who don't know, books are essentially the internet made out of trees.
ScruffyBelievesInThisCompany
Where are those Jon Stewart gifs when you need them...
NoCoconutOnlyPineapple
The tossed porn mags in the corner=4chan/9gag.
gairy
Without all the malware
Stormfort
The malware is bad books.
jrau18
Someone's never read Twilight.
gairy
Lol much to my chagrin.
ProsecutorsWillBeViolated
We do not speak about that abomination.
jrau18
We don't? Because it seems like it's spoken of all the damn time
AbsentaneousMind
What about 50 shades?
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
I love books more than I love the internet. That's about as much praise as I can give in 140 characters.
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
Thank you OP :)
KingOfAntarctica
www.wanderinginn.com
HorseshoeCrab
I love books, but I also think there's a lot of great, thought-provoking stuff on the internet, and liking both is not incompatible.
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
No, i just happen to like one more than the other. Books are special. They're a constant companion. The internet is great, but different.
TryantLizardKing
marry me?
mashka96
When I was little, if I behaved myself well, my parents would take me to a bookstore instead of like, the movies. Yeah, I know how you feel.
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
Ah, thats so cute :) I was like that with LEGO, books i usually got from the library.
Daisydaresyou
It is tearing me up inside trying to decide, if you had to pick one...
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
Choose the internet. Download eBooks, print them out, draw your own covers.
TheKingAdornedInYellow
I love great stories told in any medium. Books tend to capture my imagination more, but there are games, movies, etc. that do so as well.
mawmac
I said preach it!
DuckyQuackQuack
Yet you're on the interwebz
TheGreatMizuti
F-F-F-FALSE DICHOTOMY
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
And?
DuckyQuackQuack
If you truly love books more, why don't you read one :)?
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
Just because I love one more than the other doesn't mean I don't like doing both. People are acting like I said I hate the internet.
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
I love steak more than chicken, doesn't mean I'm going to spend my entire life doing nothing but eating steak.
Hydrall
Presumably he does, but not constantly.
CrankedCat
An argument can be made that Film can do many of these things as well.
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
And obviously the more volume that is produced the more likely that some of it will be good, statistically.
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
Considering the expense and man power required to make films they will never be able to produce the same volume of art.
luxilia
That about sums it up, yep. Books are amazing. To any who disagree I just point to the Carl Sagan quote above.
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
My main book shelf:
Got another smaller bookshelf with educational/work books :P
luxilia
Abercrombie is awesome! And Irving ain't too bad either. Kudos for you. Not seeing any Steven Erikson though, shame on you ^^
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
Never heard of him. What's he written? what's he like?
AshtheViking
He wrote the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Almost every fantasy fan I know loves it but I read the first and just didn't like it.
helpidontknowmyname
I have 17 bookcases. I need a bigger house, because once I read a book I can't abandon it. Even the bad ones. We bond.
SomeLameStuff
Mine is a lot bigger than yours! =P
tekkenchoir
Now THAT looks familiar. :P
AshtheViking
fantasy fan I see. ditto.
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
Ive also got a lot of sci fi, classic novels and a section of self help/hobby/education books :P Atm I'm reading The Wind-up Girl.
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
Well, fantasy is my main area of interest yeah. It's probably over represented in that picture, I wanted to get all my favorites in the shot
AshtheViking
which given your name should have been obvious.
Nahxela
You take that back right now
Albalannae
No!
Nahxela
Because books are also on the internet, so technically books can be the internet/the internet can be books, so you love them equally.
Thekingofbeans
If they're on the internet, they're not books anymore. A book is the physical object, the information inside is what matters.
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
But i dont love smelly cardboard boxes. I see what you're trying to get at though and it does have some truth to it.
Yummmi
But... the feeling D: and the smell!
Nahxela
what if you put the internet inside of a book
Yummmi
that... would be interesting...
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
I love books, and books are on the internet, doesnt mean i love the internet. Books also come in smelly cardboard boxes.
Nahxela
I'm telling the internet that you don't love it
IAmLookingForSomeoneToShareInAnAdventure
The internet and I are just friends :) I've been in a serious relationship with books for 17 years though, and the internet is ok with it.
Nahxela
What if the internet came in a smelly cardboard box, would you love it then?