Read a book, read a book....

Read a motherfucking book.

So I may seem like a new age entertainment type of guy, with the top video games, and movie reviews. But I also enjoy a good book. As a book has the best graphics run by imagination*insert non-existent Youtube video of Spongebob making a rainbow while saying "imagination"*, making for a much more immersive experience.

Though off the bat, I have something to say about "classic" novels.
Lets make some generalizations:
1. Fuck French literature. Alexandre Dumas (pronounce Dumb-ass) The Three Musketeers wasn't terrible, but Hugo's novels were just terrible, and I only got a couple pages into Honoré de Balzac's (pronounce Ballsack) Le Pere Goriot and it was just turrble.
2. The same for Russian literature. From Dostoyevsky to Pushkin just boring and horrible... Though Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita had some humor to save it.
Ughh, i just haven't read any great piece of  "classic" literature.




Anyway, onto my top 5:

5. Andres Kivirähk Mees kes teadis ussisõnu - Show some props to Estonian literature. Well... this, and Kivirähk's other book are the only decent ones I've read.... Anyways, you will never have the possibility to read this, will you? Unless you decide to learn Estonian, one of the most complicated languages. So since you will never be able to read this,  I might as well describe this as the greatest book ever written, so many amazing shocking scenes, featuring a laser-firing dinosaur, miniature ninjas, with triple-cross twist-ending.

4. Shel Silverstein The Giving Tree - This book literally has like 150 words. It is obviously meant as a children book, but it's got a surprisingly deep story. It's like a mini-pixar movie in book form.

3. Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange - Welcome to a dystopian future in Britain where the youth speak a mix of English and Russian, and partake in the ultra-violent. As any good dystopian should, it touches upon moral issues of society and distorts them to the extreme. The movie is also amazing, and it's hard to choose which is better, as they are both superb.
Also, is this not one of the best book covers? It's a goddamn glass of milk!

2. George Orwell 1984 - Another dystopian novel. This one however is the most depressing book ever, while A Clockwork Orange has humor to it. The world of Orwell's future is soooooo bleak. And I don't want to spoil the end, but it is great. It has one of the greatest sequences, revolving around truth and how 2+2=5.

1.Orson Scott Card Ender's Game - Well, the other books in the Ender-verse could also break the top 5, but to keep it fair, I'll keep it collected to one representative, the undeniable greatest book ever written. The title character, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, is the most epic fictional character in any medium. It is set in a sci-fi universe where aliens exist, though they are more passive. It is more of a story about a person. With an interesting cast of characters and has a surprising, twist ending which always helps. The later books in the series feature the aliens more prominently. And the parallel series ( the shadow series) is more of a book about politics and trying to taking over the world. 
Card is one the greatest authors ever, with this series, Empire, Pastwatch, and some great short stories.




Maybe not such an interesting blogpost. Unlike movies, books need to be read, because each person reads it differently and gets different things out of it. Movies are more straightforward. You can discuss acting and directing and such, which are non-existent on books.