jennifersweetheart:

fieryfalcon:

essiedub:

nachosauruz:

A fuckload of classic literature:

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
4. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
5. Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
6. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
7. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
8. Andersen’s Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
9. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
11. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
12. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
13. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
14. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
15. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
16. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
17. Dracula by Bram Stoker
18. Dubliners by James Joyce
19. Emma by Jane Austen
20. Erewhon by Samuel Butler
21. For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke
22. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
23. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
24. Grimms Fairy Tales by the brothers Grimm
25. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
26. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
27. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
28. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
29. Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
30. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
31. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
32. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
33. Middlemarch by George Eliot
34. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
35. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
36. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad
37. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
38. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
39. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
40. Paradise Lost by John Milton
41. Persuasion by Jane Austen
42. Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
43. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
44. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
45. Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
46. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
47. Swanns Way by Marcel Proust
48. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
49. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
50. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
51. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
52. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
53. The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
54. The Great Gatsby
55. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
56. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
57. The Iliad by Homer
58. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
59. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
60. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
61. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
62. The Odyssey by Homer
63. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
64. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
65. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
66. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
67. The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
68. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
69. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
70. The Tales of Mother Goose by Charles Perrault
71. The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
72. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Duma
73. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
74. The Trial by Franz Kafka
75. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
76. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
77. Ulysses by James Joyce
78. Utopia by Sir Thomas More
79. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Within A Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
81. Women In Love by D. H. Lawrence
82. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Click on the motherfucking Hypelinks bitches.

Here! Have a fuckload of modern literature, too!

1. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
2. A Study In Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3. Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith
4. An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
5. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
6. Bossypants - Tina Fey
7. Breakfast At Tiffany’s - Truman Capote
8. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
9. Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
10. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
11. City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
12. Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare
13. Damned - Chuck Palahniuk
14. Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
15. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
16. Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
17. Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
18. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
19. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
20. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
21. Go The Fuck To Sleep - Adam Mansbach
22. I Am America (And So Can You!) - Stephen Colbert
23. I Am Number Four - Pittacus Lore
24. Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
25. It - Stephen King
26. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
27. Lolita - Vladmir Nabokov
28. Marked - Kristin Cast
29. Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden
30. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
31. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
32. One Day - David Nicholls
33. Paper Towns - John Green
34. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightening Thief - Rick Riordan
35. Pretty Little Liars - Sara Shepard
36. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
37. Snow White And The Huntsman - Lily Blake
38. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
39. The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
40. The Giver - Lois Lowry
41. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
42. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
43. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
44. The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
45. The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
46. The Perks of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
47. The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
48. The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
49. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
50. The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
51. Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom
52. Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
53. Vampire Diaries: The Awakening - L.J. Smith
54. Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen
55. Wicked - Gregory Maguire

Living in the future can be pretty sweet sometimes

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ladydreamy:

hoflords:

Whilst reading the first book of the series - Game of Thrones - I’ve noticed a couple of interesting things about Stannis Baratheon:

1- He doesn’t appear but is an omnipresent character. On the first book, we haven’t seen him yet, he hasn’t appeared, he hasn’t talked, so we only know what others…

THIS. All of this. Is it weird that I printed it out and started marking all of my favorite passages and sentences? Now my printout looks as if you had given a bunch of markers to some Kindergarten kids and turned them loose on it :D. And I’m still stuck while trying to formulate a reasonable reply.

So. I agree with you (as if you hadn’t guessed that already ;D). I agree especially on the part that he took part in the very foundation of the plot and I would like to take this even further and go so far as to say: He’s actually the catalyst.

A catalyst is a substance that starts a chemical reaction or speeds it up.

Which Stannis undoubtedly did by unearthing Cersei’s dirty little secret. By writing those letters, by fighting on the Blackwater, by fighting on the Wall and God only knows by what he’s been up to in ADWD (not that I know, mind you).
He keeps setting things in motion - even indirectly. Think of what Sam did with the election of the Lord Commander. Or, as you already said, the real motive behind Jon Arryn’s murder.

Now there are different types of catalysts (some can inhibit certain reactions and some start them). And then there are substances which influence the catalysts. Those are called ‘promoters’. That would be Melisandre and Davos. And probably Jon Snow, too.

But here’s the thing about catalysts that I personally like the most: Unlike other reagents that participate in a chemical reaction, a catalyst is not consumed by the reaction itself. It can participate in multiple chemical transformations.

It kind of fits. Stannis is still alive (for the time being) while many of the other protagonists who were involved are already dead (consumed).

And this gives me reason to hope that Stannis might make it to the seventh book (and probably even beyond that). But mind you, I might not be the best authority on the field of predicting who lives or dies, especially seeing how I was taken completely by surprise by the outcome of GoT and (although I had a bad feeling beforehand) by one major event in ASOS.

Besides I am pretty biased so…

So if I hadn’t seen the series before reading the book - and I knew nothing about the story as it would be desirable - I could actually see Stannis in the first book as some sort of conventional hero. A correct, honest, honourable man, perhaps even a bit puritanical. An extremely strong warrior who fears nothing and no one. The man who could save Eddard Stark, who could save the Kingdom. 

As a person who read the books first and still hasn’t watched the TV show completely I’m sitting here and nodding my assent so hard that my neck’s starting to hurt.

I think that part of why he seems to emerge as a hero in GoT probably stems from the way his character traits (honesty, honor, duty, justice) are contrasted to those of the members of the small council, the men who govern the realm. And - apart from Ned Stark and Ser Barristan and look where that got them - they come up sorely lacking in that department.

He remembered what Robert had told him in the crypts below Winterfell. I am surrounded by flatterers and fools, the king had insisted.

Ned looked down the council table and wondered which were the flatterers and which the fools. He thought he knew already. “We are but five”, he pointed out.

“Lord Stannis took himself to Dragonstone not long after the king went north”, Varys said, “and our gallant Ser Barristan no doubt rides beside the king as he makes his way through the city, as befits the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard.”

The ones who would really fit on the small council are the ones that are missing.

So these are the men who scoff at him and make fun of him at every turn, the very same men I would describe with terms as “corrupt” or “self-serving”.

At first, especially from Clash of Kings onwards, it seems that he is a condemned character.

Mind me, I still believe Stannis is the most likely candidate to die on Winds of Winter.

Whyyyyy? Must read ADWD. MUST READ ADWD.

Your analysis makes things much clearer. Mine was a bit confusing. My thoughts just ran and I wrote them down. I really like how you placed him as a catalyst and not just a follower of something.

I don’t have much more to add. I would only like to say that I’m glad we’ve asserted that Stannis is a much more important character than we all thought it the first place. Without him, the story wouldn’t have been developed. Although before I believed that Stannis was a just a means for Melisandre to find the real Azor Ahai, Jon Snow, now I kind believe that he is more important than that.

But things are going pretty bleak for him in the books. Everyone and everything is against him. Targaryens attacking Storm’s End or about to anyway, Ramsey fucking bastard and Winterfell…well. I hope this isn’t all just a bunch of coincidences.