❖ 003 // [Voice]

[crisisrain]

[Filtered from Xion | 95% Unhackable to her]

Hey I got a little problem I could use some help with. There's this nice, little, teenage girl who's never read a book before, so I told her I'd get her one as a surprise gift. But uh, I'm drawin' up a blank. What kinda books do girls even read nowadays?

Comments

[1week-wizard.livejournal.com]

I strongly recommend books by an American author by the name of "Stephen King". Particularly those of his "Dark Tower" series.

[crisisrain]

Can't say I've heard of an American before, that some kinda species? "Dark Tower" right, are they horror books?

[1week-wizard.livejournal.com]

Most of his works can be classified as "horror/thriller", yes, but "The Dark Tower" is decidedly different and difficult to classify. To put it in much more simple terms, it is an "epic".

[crisisrain]

Ooh I think I may have to pick this one up for myself instead. Any other book titles he did?

[1week-wizard.livejournal.com]

There's always "The Stand". I recommend the unabridged version.

[crisisrain]

Oh how come? More details or somethin'?

[1week-wizard.livejournal.com]

That would be the nature of the thing, yes.

[crisisrain]

That could be a pretty interestin' read then. Books are no good if they don't tell ya the whole story.

[1week-wizard.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's true. Or at least that it's possible for a book to be "no good".

[crisisrain]

Well I've read a few books I thought were "no good". Like if ya wanna learn about cats and you pick up a book on dogs, that'd be no good.

[1week-wizard.livejournal.com]

The folly would be on you for selecting the wrong book.

[crisisrain]

Not my fault someone swapped the slip-on cover for a different book.

[1week-wizard.livejournal.com]

You did not mention that.

[crisisrain]

Didn't think it would make that much difference if I did.

[1week-wizard.livejournal.com]

Of course it does.

[crisisrain]

Well I already had one lecture on 'not judgin' a book by it's cover'. Guessin' it wouldn't hurt to actually check what was inside once in a while.

[1week-wizard.livejournal.com]

That is the origin of that phrase, yes.

[crisisrain]

But that defeats the surprise. Especially cause some of those books are backwards, ya pick 'em up, open them and it's the end of the book! What's with that?!

[1week-wizard.livejournal.com]

... You can't be serious.

[crisisrain]

I am! Apparently some worlds out there write book backwards.

[1week-wizard.livejournal.com]

Are you certain you weren't just reading it in the wrong direction?

[crisisrain]

Certain of it! The book started at the right, and read to the left. That's now how books are written where I'm from.

[1week-wizard.livejournal.com]

...

Occidental languages are read from left to right, yes. Oriental languages are not. The books will reflect this.

[crisisrain]

Oriental, Occidental? So the books here are gonna be written differently dependin' on where they're from?

[1week-wizard.livejournal.com]

Yes.