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Watching Avatar: The Last Airbender is making me want to attempt to read all of Romance of the Three Kingdoms again. Which really doesn't follow, but I stopped long ago trying to figure out how my brain works. Well, unless my brain is somehow matching the Fire Nation with the Kingdom of Wei, lead by Cao Cao, which makes no sense.
I tried to read the whole thing once before getting bogged down near the end of Book 1 of 4. It's dense and I lost track of characters. I want another go at it, but possibly during term is a less-than-ideal plan. (What does it say about me if I'll gladly attempt to read classical Chinese literature or Japanese battle strategies [hello, Book of the Five Rings], but won't touch English literature like Jane Eyre, even though the latter probably requires less brain-breaking and struggle?)
Although this does beg the question of who would be Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang. I love badass tacticians and strategists!
Speaking of strategies, someone tell me that using the Thirty-Six Stratagems as prompts is a Bad Idea? Please? (Worse Idea: ficathon based on the idea of using the Thirty-Six Stratagems. But I bet people could come up with some clever interpretations.)
You can totally tell I'm supposed to be writing a technical paper right now, can't you? I swear to god my brain overdoses on the crack when it's under pressure.
I tried to read the whole thing once before getting bogged down near the end of Book 1 of 4. It's dense and I lost track of characters. I want another go at it, but possibly during term is a less-than-ideal plan. (What does it say about me if I'll gladly attempt to read classical Chinese literature or Japanese battle strategies [hello, Book of the Five Rings], but won't touch English literature like Jane Eyre, even though the latter probably requires less brain-breaking and struggle?)
Although this does beg the question of who would be Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang. I love badass tacticians and strategists!
Speaking of strategies, someone tell me that using the Thirty-Six Stratagems as prompts is a Bad Idea? Please? (Worse Idea: ficathon based on the idea of using the Thirty-Six Stratagems. But I bet people could come up with some clever interpretations.)
You can totally tell I'm supposed to be writing a technical paper right now, can't you? I swear to god my brain overdoses on the crack when it's under pressure.
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At least, when my mom saw me floundering for things to read, threw me at the Hardy Boys. She just has moments of attempting to make me stereotypically female in some fashion, I think. This is rather endearing, since it's usually always met with failure, and yet she tries so hard anyway. :P
You should do this! And make it multifandom! It would be fairly easy to run, I would think, if you either let people self-select, or if you assign it randomly.
I'm very, very tempted. I wonder how many other people would be interested. So I can see if it's worthwhile.
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The Hardy Boys are awesome. I think they're some of the few kid detective books with boys that I really fell in love with (also Encyclopedia Brown and the Three Investigators series).
You can do a poll to gauge interest! I'll pimp it for you!
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