Chris and books

[MerriedxReldnahc]

Imagining the Chandlers controlling the spice melange is a terrifying prospect.

The Autism must flow.

God-Emperor of CWCville

 

[Overcast]

On topic though, I doubt he wants to exert that kind of effort when cartoons and vidya will tell you exactly what to see.

Which is not to say that there aren't great stories in gaming! BioShock, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last of Us come to mind. Not that Chris would ever play any of those.

God I LOVED Shadow of the Colossus. My personal favorite game.

Anyway, I can't really say I'm too well versed in the world of literature, as I haven't done much reading since high school. But I can't help but wonder if Chris would have enjoyed the Silverwing books. I'd imagine he would enjoy them considering they have talking animals in them. Plus I'd imagine he would attempt to shoe-horn in some freaky electric bat/electric hedgehog abominations into his comic somehow.

 

[rocket]

I'm not surprised by his failure to pick up a book without pictures, but you think that graphic novels would be right up his alley, especially since Sonichu is a comic series.

This is a good point--do we know if he ever read any of those Sonic books put out by Archie Comics?

Half of Sonichu is traced from them

 

[Grand Number of Pounds]

It would be interesting to know what books Chris reads and what he thinks about them. Too bad we really can't know.

He did have that one vidya that had a lot of books on it, so if he didn't just get it because he hoards vidya, maybe he's read a couple of chapters of the different books on it. I've read that most people don't go beyond the first few chapters of a book, so Chris would be average if that was the case.

 

[AtroposHeart]

I wonder what Chris' reading comprehension level is. I am currently reading the Poisonwood Bible and something tells me he wouldn't even regonize that the father in the novel is a misogynist religious fanatic who lead his family into danger. He would probably sympathize with him and agree that God was just giving him the middle finger.

 

[CalmMyTits]

it warms my heart to see that there are quite a few fellow Dune fans here, I am a huge Dune fangirl myself. and goodness, Poisonwood Bible, that was an excellent book!

There are so many excellent books out there that I know Chris would not understand the message - the Foundation Trilogy, Anne of Green Gables, Good Earth, the list goes on... Oh, and Black Like Me. Given how Chris feels about the niggos, I wonder what he would take from that book.

 

[Naxra]

I would like Chris to read Wild Swans, which is not only a gripping story full of interesting and vibrant human beings (which could only help his characterizations), but also give him a real example of what oppression and hardship truly means. I can't imagine Chris surviving the Cultural Revolution and I think he'd get a sense of perspective if he read it (but at 500+ pages...that's not gonna happen, is it?).

 

[A-№1]

Chris has trouble following most movies. That is what makes me think he has below average intelligence or his ego makes him functionally retarded. He will see a B slasher movie and twist it to fit his life. The more complex the plot is the more likely he'll give up on seeing how it connects to his very specific personal struggles and just zone out.

Or he'll focus exclusively on some non-sequitur 30 seconds in the middle of the film that makes mention of cartoon ponies and obsess about that.

I mean forget even bad B-movie slasher flics. Banal animated films about ponies and rabbits without any semblance of a plot or character development are more Chris' métier.

As an aside, has Chris ever seen Happy Tree Friends? I also wonder what he would think about Don Hertzfeldt's work.

 

[AtroposHeart]

Chris has trouble following most movies. That is what makes me think he has below average intelligence or his ego makes him functionally retarded. He will see a B slasher movie and twist it to fit his life. The more complex the plot is the more likely he'll give up on seeing how it connects to his very specific personal struggles and just zone out.

Or he'll focus exclusively on some non-sequitur 30 seconds in the middle of the film that makes mention of cartoon ponies and obsess about that.

I mean forget even bad B-movie slasher flics. Banal animated films about ponies and rabbits without any semblance of a plot or character development are more Chris' métier.

As an aside, has Chris ever seen Happy Tree Friends? I also wonder what he would think about Don Hertzfeldt's work.

I do recall Chris Chan mentioning Happy Tree Friends in a phone call. I think to Alec Benson Larry, if I remember correctly.

 

[A-№1]

I do recall Our Pet Lolcow mentioning Happy Tree Friends in a phone call. I think to Alec Benson Larry, if I remember correctly.

That's certainly where I would start looking. It's pretty much a given that if it relates to Chris, it's in the Alec calls somewhere.

Yep, right there. Alec Call #1.

[Sighs] It's supposed to be like a happy TV-Y show, but it's actually- it's actually adult and dark humor because they go into cut-slashing all the cute characters up and uh, it's- well all the blood and gore and everything, and yet they make them come- th- they make them come back to life unharmed the very next episode, just to slice and duh- slice and dice 'em up again.

Also: Larry?

 

[Stalin]

Chris would probably side with Svidrigailov in Crime and Punishment since he couldn't get a boyfriend-free girl either.

 

[BillRiley]

Chris has trouble following most movies. That is what makes me think he has below average intelligence or his ego makes him functionally retarded. He will see a B slasher movie and twist it to fit his life. The more complex the plot is the more likely he'll give up on seeing how it connects to his very specific personal struggles and just zone out.

Books rely on your imagination and ability to empathize with characters so you can understand why they do what they do. Chris lacks those two things so to him it just seems like a list of people doing things at places that don't really concern him. Movies make it easier to insert himself into a story he has trouble following. He can bend the motives of characters so it can be fit into his warped view of the world. It's difficult for him to do that with books because emotions are dressed up in sentences much more complex than "Tim was mad". It's probably why he stuck with Goosebumps for so long. The books wave around motive and emotion like they were flares.

^Pretty much this. Chris can't relate to human characters, even the cardboard characters in young adult "literature." Hell, he had to imagine characters from Sonic the Hedgehog in place of the characters in the Goosebumps books he was reading.

These days, I'd be mildly surprised to find Chris is reading traffic signs.

 

[EzioCanLeapofFaith]

During one of the Kacey calls he said he read some book called the Giver, and that the last book he had read was some book from Pamela Anderson.
I have a theory that he told Kacey's father the last book he read was "To Kill a Mockingbird" just to sound more ...educated or serious

 

[homerbeoulve]

I wonder if he ever saw books from Samuel Clemence and Will Rogers.