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Tagsfiction (211), fantasy (126), series (105), children's (97), reference (95), magic (76), classic (73), humor (65), history (53), gothic (51) — se alle tags

GrupperAboard the Jolly Roger, All Things Discworldian - The Guild of Pratchett Fans, FantasyFans, Hogwarts Express, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Knights Galore, Monsters, Zombies, and Demons (Oh My!), Read YA Lit, Romance Languages, Tamora Pierce Lovers Unitedvis alle grupper

YndlingsforfattereJane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Edward Gorey, Thomas Hardy, Henrik Ibsen, Brian Jacques, Gail Carson Levine, Tamora Pierce, Terry Pratchett, J. K. Rowling, William Shakespeare, J. R. R. Tolkien, Oscar Wilde, Patricia Collins Wrede (Fælles favoritter)

Om mig Nerdy, 20-year-old college sophomore from New Jersey with distinctly Gothic sensibilities and piratical sympathies. In my head, I am in elementary school still. Sometimes. I accumulate books faster than I can read them; it's becoming a compulsion. When I'm not reading I enjoy watching movies, writing, painting things black, listening to classic rock and metal, experimental bartending, going to playgrounds at night once all the actual children leave, and wandering around town with my friends looking for something interesting to do, often resulting in some sort of ill-advised baking project.

Also, I am awesome. Thank you.

Om mit bibliotek I like history books, and particularly like medieval history, piratical history, and the history of English. I obsessively collect language-learning materials for languages I will never learn to speak well and books in foreign languages I will never be able to read in a decent amount of time. I keep children's books around for a really long time. I'm not very big on realistic fiction; I want DRAMA. And comedy, and magic, and swashbuckling sea adventures. So that's what I buy. I like "classics," whatever that means. I like fantasy and fairy tales. I like historical fiction. I like girl's adventure fiction. I like it when at least two of those last three categories overelap. I like satire. I'm very much getting into cute little hardcover books of ridiculously macabre children's stories with accompanying demented line drawings. I love that that's an entire genre. Then there's stuff other people give me, which falls roughly under the same parameters, usually, but not always. A number of my favorite authors were my favorite authors when I was nine. The rest are British. Oscar Wilde is God.

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. . . OK, so I was looking at threads I commented on about a year ago and discovered that you had recognized me from the PPC in an introductions thread and I had never responded. So: Yes, I did used to hang around there, until the board gave my computer spyware.
soo... um... is it the real mississippi jack BOOK??
omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how did you get a copy of mississippi jack????!!!!! thants wat u said, right???!!!!omg!! ;D
Glad you enjoyed it! I loved the Company of Ship's Boys...
I hear there's a fifth one coming out this summer. I'm so excited!
I had actually been thinking about a name like "Aboard the HMS " or "Landlubbers Need Not Apply"

But I've been of a rather silly bent recently.

I very much like the Jolly Roger idea as it is immediately recognizable as pirate-y goodness even by those who can't quite place the Hispaniola right off (sad, but a fact of life).
No ideas at the moment, though I think 'ahoy' is going to be an integral part of the title. I'll think of something as soon as I'm a little less swamped :-)
Deal. Now to come up with a catchy name for the group...
Oh, and have you found a swashbuckling community yet? There seems to be a dearth of seafaring type groups...
Ohh I'm madly in love with Charlotte Doyle. What an awesome book. I kept picking up more by the same author and never managed to find anything that didn't disappoint after that one. Maybe I just never found the right ones.

The Bloody Jack adventures are great fun, though I sometimes get frustrated with the obvious maleness of the author. He simply has no grasp of girls at times. Nonetheless, I'm still extraordinarily excited about the fifth in the series coming out later this year. YAY! Let me know what you think if you read them.

Currently I'm in the midst of the Horatio Hornblower series. I can't really deal with the main character's moaning about a stiff upper lip and all that, but the swashbuckling is fantastic. Plus I love Ioan Gryffudd in the A&E pics.

Clearly there should be more pirate biopics. I mean, who WOULDN'T want to watch something about Captain Kidd? Blackbeard? Jean Lafitte ( I adore Jean Lafitte). OOH and Calico Jack and Anne Bonny, etc. would make a GREAT Hollywood movie. So many possibilities...
We need to take over Hollywood...
Was just wondering, since you seem so fond of both girl-power stuff and swashbuckling sea adventures (as am I, especially combined) whether you had come across the Bloody Jack series by Louis Meyer. Definitely worth a look. :-)

What are your favorites when it comes to swashbuckling? I'm always on the look-out for something new...
-Lana
You're far too young to be so interesting. You've got a hell of a ride ahead of you, good luck. Off topic--do you know Scandanavia world music--specifically Garmarna and Hedningarna? The reason I ask is that a finn/english dictionary shows in your Random Books sidebar. If no, go posthaste to noside.com and/or cdroots.com. You have delight awaiting. Also--I discovered a boatload of obscure quasi-gothic-romantic stuff while researching a 15,000 word article on "The Haunted House" for a forthcoming reference volume on _Icons of the Supernatural_. Most of it is not yet my catalog--let me know if you're interested, I'll email you the article text. P.S. I can relate to the amazon 1-click as you'll see from my list. Also-"I obsessively collect language-learning materials for languages I will never learn to speak well and books in foreign languages I will never be able to read in a decent amount of time"--I recently bought a book w/audio CD of poetry in WELSH. Aahahahah!
Thanks for the comment about The Complete Annotated GD Lyrics!
--David
I still have all the books I read as a kid, too.
Tehehehehe. Oh dear, this is so bad, Clare. 800 books and I'm starting tags. Crap...now everyone can see the shit I read; my top tags so far are teen, angst, disease, death, and garbage. Hahahahhaha.
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