#bc oh yeah he offended so many people that hes been Cursed with Ugly and Turbo Asthma and I See Dead People

[six-of-ravens]

I'm torn on this cover bc on one hand it's the most realistic Caramon, but on the other he simply NEEDS to be an unrealistic brick shithouse of a man. he is a single braincell himbo pure of heart and dumb of ass and also he needs to be at least 1.5x as big as Raistlin and 15x healthier for any depiction to be accurate

[trashmel]

Hey there! For the bookish questions: 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 (which is in fact OUR country of birth, hehe :D), 12 (even though I'm sure you told me about it), 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 (no, not a TW book, that's not fair ;) ), 19, 22, 25, 26, 27, 39, 40, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50. Have fun with that :D (and no, I won't let you talk about 1 and 23 because I already know the answers and I'm an asshole ♥)

You are crazy. Also : Challenge accepted! See how I can talk about Bottero almost everywhere!

2. What is thelongest book you have ever read? How many pages?

Apparently it's HarryPotter and the Order of the Phoenix (which is pretty cool ;D)with around 800 pages (says wiki, I'm too lazy to move to check. Alsothe French and English versions probably don't have the samepagination... Anyway who cares, you all know this book!)

3. What is the oldestbook you have ever read? (Based on its written date)

Gorgias by Plato, as for the date? I don’t know. Wiki says “around 380 BC”

5. What book or bookseries would you like to see turned into a film/ TV series?

….. OH YES I CAN TALKABOUT BOTTERO AFTER ALL ;D

Ahem. I mean, I would haveto say Ellana (I mean the whole series, Le Pact des Marchombres) by Pierre Botterojust to see a badass woman fighting and writing haiku? I mean Iwould sell my soul to watch this. Please someone just turn this intoa TV show already!

6. What is yourfavourite stand-alone book?

Every book can stand byitself, I can't say (Okay, okay I just couldn't choose one thatseemed to be “the one” because I mainly read series...)

9. What is a book youhave read that is set in your country of birth?

Urgh, the first two thatcame to my mind were The Sun Also Rises byErnest Hemingway and La Bête Humaine byEmile Zola... I despise both books and I hated reading them!

12. What book do youpassionately hate?

Despite what I just said:Robinson Crusoe by DanielDefoe. Okay they're all books from school, so it doesn't help me, butman, this book? I read 100 pages and I couldn't go any furtherbecause it was just so loooong and boriiiing and oh my god he had tostop killing and eating animals. And really, a book to show me how tobe a good Christian? No thanks.

13. What is thebiggest book series you have read? How many books are in it?

… See, I can still talkabout Bottero :D (Oh I'm doing this on purpose, yes.)

Okayactually this is a tie?? I wasn't expecting this. So the first onewas Les Chevaliers d'Emeraude +Les Héritiers d'Enkidiev with 12 books for the former and I don't know how many for the latter. Istopped at 2 for the second, so that's a total of 14 books I actually read.

Thesecond one is Pierre Bottero's series set in Gwendalavir, with 4trilogies, one “stand-alone” (*cries*) and a short story; so 14 books as well,that I consider as a book series because everything is linked and setin the same imaginary world.

14. What book givesyou happy memories?

OH COME ON I'MTRYING... I gotta go with Ellanaby Pierre Bottero because thepoetry touched me, and oh my God I see the next question, but thisbook is probably one of the first that made me cried for acharacter's death (although I don't think it occurs in the firstbook...), and it was just so so goodand it's the one that got me to read Bottero. So kudos and yay!

15. What book madeyou cry?

Just so I do NOT talkabout Bottero again, and stop with the French books, recently Isobbed madly while reading The Sweet Hereafter byRussell Banks. It was great. But yeah, I was ugly crying more thanonce.

16. What book madeyou laugh?

I had to mention that atsome point, but it has to go to Anything Goes byJohn & Carole E. Barrowman because just looking at the book makes me smile and Ilaughed a lot while reading it.

17. What is yourfavourite book that contains an LGBTQ+ character?

La Meute bySlimane-Baptiste Berhoun (OH YOU DIDN'T SEE THAT ONE COMING, DIDYOU?) because I couldn't really find another book with lgbt+characters, sadly, and actually why would I? I loved that book.

19. Have you read abook set on another planet? What is it?

Technically Bottero'sbook must be set on another planet as they travel in our world :D(also I'm not sure I have read one clearly set on another planet soyou gotta accept that)

22. What famousauthor have you not read any books by?

Any recent famous author.The first I thought about was Stephen King, so there you go.

25. How many books doyou own?

Roughly, 40 (I mean, thatare really mine, not generally my family's) because I am pooooorand spent my childhood reading thanks to libraries so never really buying books ;)

26. What is yourfavourite non-fiction book?

Oh God I don't know whydon't you ask someone else?! (I really have no idea my brain won'twork)

27. What is yourfavourite children’s/middle-grade book?

… Les Âmes Croiséesby Pierre Bottero? :D (And I amnot kidding...) but this book is just... so... wonderful. It makes mego through a shit ton of emotions every time I read it, and it's justso wonderfully written and it kinda became a dream to follow. Eitherthe characters, or the fact that I want to write something asbeautiful as this, I don't know, but it helped me a great deal and Ienjoyed it a lot.

39. What bookoffended you?

The Cursed Child byI-don't-know-who-wrote-this-but-they-surely-never-touched-a-HP-book-in-their-lifebecause I read only a few pages and couldn't really go through it.Or, I mean, the mere existence of Fifty Shades of Greyoffends me.

40. What is theweirdest book you have read?

Suddenly Last Summer byTennessee Williams which is a play that I finished thinking “so whathappened??” and realised afterwards that I had understood nothing.When I mean nothing, I mean NOTHING: there was a rape? Really? Thedead guy was gay? I missed that? It was about cannibalism? What theheck people? (I must have been tired when reading...) But even once Iunderstood it, well, it still is a weird one ;)

43. What book did youbuy because of its cover?

Le Chant du Troll byPierre Bottero because it's prettyyyyy pretty very pretty :D

44. What is a bookthat you love, but has a terrible cover?

I don't particularly likethe cover of The Yellow Wallpaper byCharlotte Perkins (although it's a great cover for the book) justbecause it's kinda creepy and I wouldn't buy it.

45. Do you own apoetry anthology? What is your favourite poem from it?

Yup, thanks to school morethan one ;) One of them is Les Fleurs du Mal byBaudelaire, and I'd say the poem L'Albatros butI have no idea why.

47. Do you own anyhistorical fiction?

I'm not sure I actuallyown any...

48. What book madeyou angry?

I think The Catcher inthe Rye by J.D. Salinger pissedme off because I hated the main character and I wanted to shake senseinto him by punching him repeatedly. / Madame Bovary byFlaubert, do I seriously need to explain why???

49. What book hasinspired you?

Actually, Verlaine did,with Romances sans paroles becauseI read it (for school again) while I was going through a hard time,and thought that poetry was quite nice, so I wrote some. And ithelped me, so, thanks Verlaine?

50. What book got youinto reading?

Probablysome book from Jean-Luc Luciani. I remember my school organizedsomething with him when I wasn't reading much, but then I rememberchecking his books and loving them, so it's probably him. (youknow in what book they talked about Jean-Luc Luciani? That's right,baby, Bottero did!)