What Books would you show Twilight?

[PonyRocker95 106]

What books would you take with you to Equestria that you would think Twilight would enjoy or love to read?

 

I would take my spaicial fave books shelf with Call of the Wild, White Fang, Black Beauty, Alice in the Land of Hearts manga, Ouran Highschool Host Club, Hunger Games, Kingdom Keepers and the Twilight Saga! XD

Edited August 7, 2013 by PonyRocker88

[NavelColt 22,882]

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[Moved to Elsewhere 11,331]

Twilight (gets tomato thrown at self)
In all seriousness probably Harry Potter with all the magic or Lord of the Rings for the interesting story

[Leavinh 313]

I would bring her an encyclopedia set or maybe even a book on human anatomy. She only really got a surface level view of "our world" and I think she would really enjoy learning about human history. 

[SBaby 660]

That's easy.  I'd bring my D&D books.  She seems like the type who would enjoy table-top RPGs.  Or at the very least, it would be entertaining seeing ponies playing D&D.

[Golurk 468]

Several immediately come to mind. The Narnia series, for one. One of my personal favorite fictional works, I imagine she'd find them interesting as well.

 

Assuming I'd be able to explain anything she'd be confused about, I'd also show her my personal favorite book, Carl Sagan's "Contact." An awesome read, assuming one can understand the base concepts.

 

And lastly, and perhaps most oddly, Gray's Anatomy. A truly extensive look into how the human body works, I think she'd find it more than fascinating.

 

[decoherence 183]

Oooooooh. I would want to know what Twi thinks of Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.

 

Also, I think she'd be in to sci-fi. So Uplift Wars, Ender's Game, 2001. The classics.

 

I would also take all of Brian Greene's books, because I want to know if Twi thinks the infinite set 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... or the infinite set 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, ... are larger.

 

ADD: Oh yeah -- I'd definitely bring FoE and maybe Project Horizons... they'd probably creep the hell out of her but maybe it'd be like Pony Dean Koontz or Pony Clive Barker?

Edited August 7, 2013 by decoherence

[akalink 163]

There are a couple books I would bring Twilight. First would be "Men without Chests", next would be "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" both of those by C.S Lewis. "Profiles in Courage" by J.F Kennedy. The complete works of Shakespeare. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and the Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya (Boredom is my favorite in the series). Farewell to Manazar, and the Bible (honestly its the most influential text in the history of the world it should be given to her).

[~StatesTheOblivious~ 1,795]

- Everything Immanuel Kant ever wrote. You can disagree with him, but I always found his basic approaches to be quite useful.

 

- "His Dark Materials". Just because it's my favorite piece of fantasy literature.

 

- The collected works of Shakespeare. That passion...

 

- The collected works of Friedrich Schiller. Long live enlightment!

 

- The collected works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Gotta love Faust.

 

- And a few things Edgar Allan Poe wrote.

 

- Oh, not to forget my encyclopedia, of course. All the basic information...

[Smarts 1,623]

I would introduce Twilight Sparkle to the world of Dr. Seuss. I'd watch as she would try to wrap her brain around such books as Horton Hears A Who, The Cat In The Hat, Green Eggs And Ham, and many more. It would blow her mind.

[The Awesome One 1,315]

There's so many to name...but I'm sure they'd have the pony counterparts of all the literature we have just like the fact their city names are basically pony related puns of cities and countries in this world.

[Nomadic 210]

Probably off the top of my head, some Science-fiction/fantasy, preferably something like the 

• Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
• On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony

Those are two of my favourite books mind you and I recommend them to pretty much everyone, lol. Otherwise, it would be stuff like 

• On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
• A collection of encyclopaedias
• Some classic Philosophy texts
• etc.

[Stoney Pony 100]

I would scar her by showing her the Shining, The mist, Call of Cthulhu, at the mountains of madness, The shadow over Innsmouth, The satanic Bible, Dagon, nyarlathotep, the Dunwich horror, Pet sematary, Necromonicon, the stand, salems lot, It, Cujo, American psycho,Dracula, The exorcist, Carrie, Lord of the Flies, The pit and the Pendulum, a clock work orange, The mask of red death,Anabelle lee,The cask of the amontillado, darkly dreaming dexter, War of the worlds, 1984. on a less scary note probably Enders game, The catcher in the rye, The lord of the rings trilogy, the hobbit, Alice's adventures through the looking glass, The Davinci Code, The harry potter series she would really dig that cause the whole magic thing, Animal farm, The illiad, The odyssey, Life of pi, The outsiders, One flew over the cuckoo's nest,The green mile, The great gatsby, and then there were none, the call of the wild, white fang, The cat in the hat, The very hungry caterpillar, and if you give a pig a pancake! you can tell ive thought about this.

[ChristophR 20]

I would show her some books about astronomy and animals. And when she needs a break from her studies, I think the Harry Potter books mentioned earlier are a good idea. And maybe I would bring the bible. I am sure Twilight would love to know about our religions, so I think other books like the koran aren't that bad as well.

[GhostPony750 959]

Well, what would I like to receive...

History books, books about everything related to science, I guess.

Also stuff related to psychology.

 

I am sure she will totally enjoy reading about something she doesn't know

[SCS 7,537]

In terms of fiction books, I would show her the Harry Potter series and the Redwall series.

 

In terms of non-fiction books, I would show her a few:

• Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
• Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge
• Ultimate Journey by Robert Monroe
• Calculus, 4th edition by Michael Spivak

I've only read one of those books so far: Ultimate Journey by Robert Monroe. However, the other three sound fascinating based on what I have heard of them so far, and I plan to read them soon.

 

Other than that, I'd just bring her to a library so she could find any other book she wanted to read.

[repsol rave 2,963]

i would take my books about gas turbine engines to her. it would create a technological revolution out there!

just think about those sky chariots they have, but then with 2 jet engines underneath XD

Edited August 7, 2013 by repsol rave

[Sky Warden 2,243]

I will bring Al-Quran, the Bible, the Tipitaka, and Vedas.

 

Joking aside, some history books. I have some good titles discussing the history of humankind from the era of Shang Dynasty and the present time, but blast it, I can't afford them all.

 

For fantasy books, well, the Lords of the Ring, Harry Potter, and Inheritance series. It will be useless to bring my programming books there, since it seems like there's no computer in Equestria, but I will bring science though. Physic, electricity, and human magic tricks. No, those first four books I mentioned aren't fantasy books. They're pieces of literature about philosophy written with beautiful, cultural and rich figurative languages.

Edited August 7, 2013 by Sky Warden

[Misty Rose 3,216]

Totally books like Harry Potter and The Lord of The Rings, magical stuff just goes with her.

 

I would scar her by showing her the Shining, The mist, Call of Cthulhu, at the mountains of madness, The shadow over Innsmouth, The satanic Bible, Dagon, nyarlathotep, the Dunwich horror, Pet sematary, Necromonicon, the stand, salems lot, It, Cujo, American psycho,Dracula, The exorcist, Carrie, Lord of the Flies, The pit and the Pendulum, a clock work orange, The mask of red death,Anabelle lee,The cask of the amontillado, darkly dreaming dexter, War of the worlds, 1984. on a less scary note probably Enders game, The catcher in the rye, The lord of the rings trilogy, the hobbit, Alice's adventures through the looking glass, The Davinci Code, The harry potter series she would really dig that cause the whole magic thing, Animal farm, The illiad, The odyssey, Life of pi, The outsiders, One flew over the cuckoo's nest,The green mile, The great gatsby, and then there were none, the call of the wild, white fang, The cat in the hat, The very hungry caterpillar, and if you give a pig a pancake! you can tell ive thought about this.

OOH The Shining!! That'll be an interesting read for Twi and It

Wait THE GREEN MILE? That's a book?! *gags* I saw the movie and that was enough, sure it was good but it would probably make Twi cry and probably scar her for life when she learns of the torture that criminals once had to suffer.

[Untitled Goose Q 5,137]

This is easy. If I am going to Equestria, I am taking my entire library anyway, so everything. Fiction and Non-fiction. Sci-fi, fantasy, horror, everything.

[. eris . 1,661]

Totally books like Harry Potter and The Lord of The Rings, magical stuff just goes with her.

 

 

OOH The Shining!! That'll be an interesting read for Twi and It

Wait THE GREEN MILE? That's a book?! *gags* I saw the movie and that was enough, sure it was good but it would probably make Twi cry and probably scar her for life when she learns of the torture that criminals once had to suffer.

 

The Green Mile is a spectacular book, very similar to the movie. Stephen King actually wrote the screenplay for the movie, so it feels very much like, well, reading the movie. ^^ TGM is actually one of my favorite Stephen King books of all time, although my absolute favorite must go to either Misery or Rose Madder. Both deal less with the supernatural and more with just...people. (Although Rose Madder goes weird at the end, but meh, it's Stephen King, you come to expect that.) Salem's Lot was fantastic, too.

 

I think she'd really like magical/romance books, which is why I'd show her obvious stuff, like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, but she couldn't miss little gems like the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy, or the Jim Butcher novels. I think she'd adore all of them. ^^

[PoisonClaw 8,166]

I have no doubt that Twilight would be interested in the depiction of magic from the Harry Potter series, maybe even going as far as to try and replicate some of the spells if they don't already exist in Equestria. Journey to the Center of the Earth would be a good one too, but I'd also make sure to bring along both World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide and tell her both are accurate historical depictions just to see if she buys it.

 

On the off chance she believes me, I'd then  wait and see how long it takes before she realizes her mistake, or until I can't hold back my laughter any longer and she clues in on the fact that I tricked her, which ever comes first really. 

[Shanks 10,816]

I think a better question would be which books wouldn't you show Twilight? She would be pretty eager to read almost anything you would possibly bring especially because she would probably want to learn as much as she can about humans.

[Fluttershutter 2,540]

I wonder what the status of sci-fi is in equestria. I'd bring her Verne and Welles to start. That seem close to their level of technology. Also Lovecraft for the heck of it.

[Galen 1,354]

 

 

I would introduce Twilight Sparkle to the world of Dr. Seuss. I'd watch as she would try to wrap her brain around such books as Horton Hears A Who, The Cat In The Hat, Green Eggs And Ham, and many more. It would blow her mind.

 

What he said.

 

But on a more serious note, other books I would show her are all the Tolkien books (particularly considering some of the MLP lore is inspired by Tolkien's work from what I hear, so it'd be interesting to hear Twilight's own thoughts), the Tao Te Ching, Interview With The Vampire and MAYBE the Song of Ice and Fire saga if she can handle all the darkness and the grittiness of a story about people who consistently resort to their lowest instincts to move along.