Book Collection! (Call for Input!)

[winged_knight]

I was going to have Wing make a Link post for this, but I don't think he's ready yet.

See, he loves his stories, historical or fictional. Drama, action, romance, philosophy... his interests are pretty varied, and he's curious as all hell. Plus with all these individuals from Earth he's feeling a bit out of the loop on their pop culture. He'd do better to just ASK someone for a primer on Earth culture, but well, that'd be way too easy.

So he's been collecting books, periodicals, and other forms of literature from the Junk Pile. And hoarding them in his room. And reading them all. (Thank goodness for optical zoom right? He has an old car antenna he turns pages with.)

I already know he's picked up a book on Arthurian legends and The Art of War by Sun Tzu (the title of which perplexed him and the content was definitely not what he expected.) He's likely picked up a few romance novels, too. FOR LAWLZ.

However, what he finds is pretty random, and rather than decide the rest myself, I put the fate of this poor mech's pop culture education IN YOUR HANDS!

So suggest anything you want here OOCly: books, magazine, newspapers, printed fanfic, whatever! Get creative! Give a vague description, make something up, or link me something on Amazon. Just as long as it's enough for me to get a feel for topic and content and then I'll let it seed my CR. (This has started a bit already, a few may have noticed)

If there's something you think would be cool to share in character, he WILL eventually make a Link post asking for books. Or you can stumble across him in the Junk Pile reading or maybe even at Vector's while refueling. Regardless let me know and we can discuss. :D

In the same post he'll probably go further to ask if there's interest in setting up a public library of sorts for the community. If that happens he'll likely donate most of what he's gathered to it, but I'm working up top that still.

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[aerospacecommander]

THE TWILIGHT SAGA

[winged_knight]

HAHAHAHA Yes GOOD

[elkmobile]

THE GOOSEBUMPS COLLECTION

MAKE MY DREAM COME TRUE

[elkmobile]

ALSO

50 SHADES OF GREY

*pretend this is whirl*

[sword_redemption]

Whirl wants Wing to find a Wreckers Declassified installment. It's not 'fanfic' in the fourth wall sense, but it is fanfic.

Also maybe one of First Aid's Primary Care fics.

And one of Megatron's old poems, esp if this happens after IDW Megatron apps in.

Whirl is a terrible robot.

Re: *pretend this is whirl*

[winged_knight]

But OH, these are all the BEST things. XD XD XD Geez...imagining him reading Declassifieds... \o/

Were FA's fic "self published" at all?

[a_father_to_his_men]

The Chronicles of Narnia because they are classics

Also, he should find manga, maybe something like Magic Knight Rayearth XDD

[winged_knight]

OH MAN MKR--I actually owned that manga for a while. The thought of Wing reading shojo manga is too funny.

Oh geez... where's manga there's dojinshi... :|

He'd probably love Narnia! :D

[docbot]

Go the F*ck To Sleep

Because it's an amazing piece of literature.

Also, he might enjoy some poetry? Maybe some WWI and WWII collections? (Honestly I just think that High Flight suits him perfectly?)

Oh, and of course he needs to find extremely trashy TF doujin with magical glowing cocks, because doujin is not the same without glowing invisible penis :|

[winged_knight]

Oh WOW! That poem is amazing. Yes, he'd love it.

KEKEKEKEKEKE /casually shoves that one under the berth. ¬_¬

[vandalization]

Oh gosh maybe some classics? To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men... or some kids books like Goodnight Moon.

(A copy of Go The Fuck To Sleep) EDIT: LOOKS LIKE I WAS BEAT TO THIS ONE LOL

He's also welcome to find datalogs from Dead Space universe, to put a personal tocuh on things. If you're interested, we can talk about it!

[angleofscience]

c: H.C Andersen stories/fairy tales, some folklore stories from around the world, the Journey to the West... And the Story of O (I can do trolling too!).

[winged_knight]

Great suggestions! I'll have to look through the HCA stories and pick a few. I love Journey to the West a bunch! And TROLOLOLOL Story of O. /coughs This may also be mildly relevant to certain interests.

[raceme]

If he doesn't have 'the Princess bride' book I would cry. .3.

I second the 50 shades of grey for the lulz

[patokichi]

OMG THIS

[heuristical]

THISx2

[raceme]

OH I FORGOT

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

ISAAC ASIMOV BOOKS

It's worth it just for "I, robot and the Three Laws of Robotics.

/grabby hands

[winged_knight]

OMG, why did I not think of Princess Bride? WOW, that's SO relevant to his interests. XD PFFFT, now I want to go home and watch it again.

Oh wow... I just my character a legitimate method and reason to quote Princess Bride in an RP. I FEEL LIKE I WIN AT LIFE.

[redshirtrobot]

A printed-out copy of "My Inner Life" by Link's Queen (with all the canon names and LoZ-specific terms changed to generic fantasy to prevent potential fourth-walling, of course). I'm so sorry.

Also the Illustrated History of Firearms and a Book of Aztec poetry and stories.

[winged_knight]

OMG terrible. /crying

Ahahahaha, I can see it now. Things Drift finds kicked under Wing's berth and asks him about:

The Story of O...
Wing: It's really interesting actually!

Illustrated History of Firearms...
Wing: UUUUHHH, How did THAT get there? It's not MINE. I mean... I just happened to FIND it, and I thought, um, Deckerd might like it. You know. Because he uses guns. And stuff. Iwaswonderingwhereitwentto. Thanks for finding it! /coughs

But oh, multicultural stuff would be fascinating too. Since Cybertron doesn't have as much variety as Earth does.

(not sure if you're familiar with Wing's canon, but the order of knights he belongs to is forbidden to carry firearms. So this gives me many LOLZ!)

[heuristical]

Grey's Anatomy because ANATOMY, and for something that is actually a storybook, Frankenstein. God I love Frankenstein.

[heuristical]

PS: MY IMMORTAL
THE FANFIC
BLAH BLAH FAKE NAMES YOU KNOW THE DRILL

[idle_time]

No ideas on specific books (DISCWORLD!),

but if he's interested in Earth pop culture, he definitely needs to meet Wreck-Gar.

[winged_knight]

Oh goodness the things he'd learn! ....in totally strange contexts I imagine. XD

[aerospacecommander]

I'd also suggest "John Dies at the End" which is so full of crack, Wing won't know what hit him.

If you haven't read it, DO SO. It's like the best thing ever /biased as hell.

[winged_knight]

Oh my... I'll have to look into it.

[rstlsslegsyndrm]

Necronomicon uvu

[winged_knight]

/SPITTAKES


(Is suddenly shocked no-one's suggested tentacle hentai manga yet. :|)