If magic colors were book genres
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Posted on March 28, 2018, 9:02 p.m. by Deathdragon
Credit goes HorseFist and their if magic colors were music genres post for this one.
Is gothic fantasy
Is romanticism (not just romance but Emily Bront romanticism)
Is dictionaries and thesauruses
Is action
Is I want to say slice of life but lets try fantasy
What genres do the colors represent to you?
Game_of_Cones says... #3
Oh my goodness - I'm pleased to help you out w/ this one, Deathdragon!
I'll use authors I like:
: Poet Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"
: Sci-Fi, Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut & Carl Sagan
: Horror, H.P. Lovecraft & Clive Barker
: can't read -"Books Are For BURNING"
: Still hung up on white = religion, so Bible/Koran/Torah etc.
March 28, 2018 10:37 p.m.
is definitely stream of consciousness eg. Ulysses
is mystery with an unreliable narrator eg. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
is dystopian future eg. The Handmaids Tale
is biographical eg. Down and Out in Paris and London
is religious eg. The Book of Mormon
March 29, 2018 3:34 a.m.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes and Rudyar Kipling's The Jungle Book.
- Worth mentioning books with strong moralistic themes--C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, for example.
- Gothic horror - Poe, Stoker, penny dreadful stories.
- Dimestore action/adventure novels.
(I'll touch on at the end--I went on a bit of a tangent there).
Some notable combinations I thought about:
= Stendhal's The Red and the Black (a novel about corruption in both the aristocracy and clergy).
= Thoreau's Walden (An incredibly self-masturbatory account of a famous author sitting in the woods); or, on the more side of things, Crichton's Jurassic Park.
= Plato's dialogues, most philosophy and political discourse. (With a splash of , can easily become more terrifying, such as Mein Kampf).
= Witty comedies with impeccable writing (Voltaire, Douglas Adams)
- A catch-all category for large swaths of nonfiction. Argy's suggestion is pretty strong as well.
I disagree with HorseFist's categorization of science fiction (I apologise in advance--I seem to have rambled on for quite a bit longer than I intended). While many blue themes are prevalent in science fiction, the genera is oft mashed together with other themes. For example, Douglas Adams is firmly in Izzet Colours ()--the stories are exceptionally written, and follow a set in-universe logic, but that logic is based around chaos and (as a literal plot point) Improbability.
Vonnegut really depends on the individual book--I would argue he always has , not due to his science fiction elements, but due to the incredibly logical, concise way he writes, and how he follows his own in-book rules. For example, Galapagos' use of putting a star next to the name of characters who are about to die. There is humour in his works, but it is incredibly dark, and it's hard not to see a splash of in everything the man wrote.
Slaughterhouse-Five is firmly Grixis colours ()--it deals with themes of death, chaos, and war, with a random dose of science fiction thrown in there.
Cat's Cradle is more Sultai - it deals with themes of creation and science, and how Nature can be corrupted thereby.
Player Piano is closer to Esper () - it deals with themes of government, personality, etc.
March 29, 2018 9:18 a.m.
You should--it's a fantastically disturbed work. If you enjoy it, you should also read Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle and Sirens of Titan. If you do not enjoy Slaughterhouse-Five, then you should still read the aforementioned books. Each of Vonnegut's books is completely different from the others, making it quite possible to hate one and love the rest.
March 29, 2018 10:01 a.m.
OK I've bought it.
I have a mental illness which makes it difficult for me to read novels these days.
It's very frustrating as I have an English degree, and used to read all the time.
My brain can only work in short bursts, now.
Just letting you know that it might take me a very long time to finish reading that book. Maybe half a year.
I'll let you know when I'm done.
March 29, 2018 10:13 a.m.
Game_of_Cones says... #9
I love how people are going more in-depth on these threads!
cdkime, I've read all the Vonnegut stuff you mentioned except Cats Cradle & Galapagos, but I hope to get to all his works before I'm through... most recently read Sirens of Titan and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Oh and I loled at your Thoreau comment - almost included him with Whitman under Green XD
Argy, when you do get through that book please let us know what you thought about it!
March 29, 2018 10:39 a.m.
Agent_Fire says... #13
I kinda think it might be Naya. Hazezon Tamar represents Muad'Dib really well
March 29, 2018 10:44 a.m.
Argy - I hope you enjoy! It is one of my favourites (which probably says something less-than-savoury about myself).
HorseFist - At the risk of turning this thread into a Vonnegut fan club, if you are interested in the author's works and have read a considerable number of them, you should check out Timequake. It's a very strange book--essentially, Vonnegut started writing a novel, decided he hated it, and wrote a semi-autobiographical book about writing the first book. He goes into a lot about his own personal writing style and theories on authorship, and it provides a fascinating insight into the man's mind. I'd read Cat's Cradle and Galapagos first--they're among his best.
ISmiteThee - I think Orwell needs a bit of . The zealotry the ideology screams , while his focus on the political says .
Agent_Fire - Naya would be my choice as well.
March 29, 2018 11:32 a.m.
cdkime my favourite book is Lord of the Flies so ... there is that.
It depends what Orwell book you are taking about.
I already listed Down and Out in Paris and London in for biographical (autobiographical, in this case).
1984 is part of the dystopian future genre, so I relegated it to
(I studied 1984 for my final high school exam in ... 1984.)
Then you have the allegory that is Animal Farm. Not even sure where I'd put that.
Where do you even put something like graphic novels, such as Maus?
March 29, 2018 11:41 a.m.
I have not read Down and Out in Paris, so I'll defer to you on that one. I'm not sure I remember enough about Animal Farm to do a more specific colour analysis, since I have not read it since elementary school (I was a super weird kid).
1984 just seems super Esper to me. It isn't enough for INGSOC to just dominate (), they demand a fervent, religious devotion to their leader, party, and ideology (), as well as seek to control the very minds of their subjects through the thoughtpolice and doublethink ().
Regarding your graphic novel question, the only one I've read is Watchmen, which I was not overly fond of. for the dark tone and fatalistic sense of the novel, for the fact each of the characters is trying to ascribe order to the world by following their own, always uncompromising codes. Perhaps a hint of for the chaos and underlying madness of the world in which the novel is set, but not enough to be in the card's mana cost. Rules text at best.
Edit: I quite enjoy Lord of the Flies as well.
March 29, 2018 12:18 p.m. Edited.
The only thing that could be more diabolical than Lord of the Flies would be Lord of the Wolf Creek.
March 29, 2018 12:30 p.m.
- Particularly deals with collectivism, governance of man, laws & organization, and some organized martial themes as well. Interestingly enough(red usually comes to mind with revolution) something like the "Communist Manifesto" or foundational law-texts make as much sense as religious tests for white.
- Whatever revolutionary/guerrila leader's like Che Guevara may have read to learn some of the tools of their trade.
March 29, 2018 2:54 p.m.
VietMoneys says... #19
Funny you guys should mention this. I've got a Dune-themed Hazezon Tamar deck.
Hazezon, House Atreides: Dune-Inspired EDH
Commander / EDH
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ISmiteThee says... #2
= Twilight.
March 28, 2018 10:36 p.m.