Favorite books or stories? (self.zoophilia)
submitted 2017-04-24 16:11:53 by AmoreBestia Pro-zoophile, non-zoophile.
Many of you seem fairly well read, so I'm interested to see just what kind of literature you're partial to. They needn't be published or anything. Talking about your favorite genre is welcome too, of course!
There are only two books that I found really memorable, Blue Moon Rising, for... I don't even know why but it was entertaining. I guess it was my most recent fantasy novel outside of choose your own adventure books... And then there's Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis by merit of how moving it was; a perfect yet unique and interesting portrayal of alienation and isolation, one of the few torturous instances where you wish you could reach into the story and change its course. It's a shame that the rest of his work is rather banal for my taste.
My preference for books is normally scifi or fantasy, but shitty fake science and unexplained magic are the banes of my existence. I've been falling behind with reading for pleasure and most days I'm left with reading about the US's most recent political exploits. It's been much more interesting than usual this year though, so it's turning out to be more than enough.
Some honorable mentions include The Great Gatsby, Dante's Divine Comedy(Gah, remembering I lost the book at the end of Purgatorio. This is one of those books that I'd clear out weekends to read though. I should get around to getting a new copy), and... Hm, Macbeth and the legend of Beowulf are also up there. They're all older works, of course, but man are they good.
Kafka's "The Trial" is brilliant too, thought it is incomplete (he died before finishing it, telling his executor to burn his papers, which he fortunately did not do). A bizarre work of allegory, it features a man put on trial for unknown crimes and fighting a system he doesn't understand to regain his freedom from hassle. Most people view it as early dystopian fiction, but I think it has more in common with biblical parables than anything else.
Personally, I'm a huge fan of Edgar Allan Poe, especially his horror stories (Cask of Amontillado, Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar) and his tales of ratiocination (Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter). These latter serve as a prototype for another favorite, Sherlock Holmes. I've read through the whole canon twice, and while many of them are incredibly dumb (The Adventure of the Creeping Man, for instance), none of them are legitimately bad reads.
I like other books, but I'll end with a relatively unpopular one: The People's Choice, by Jeff Greenfield. A fantastic satire of American politics and media, even if its characters are bland and forgettable. A cautionary tale on an obscure problem of constitutional law that may one day become extremely important.
I was a big fan of George Orwell's Animal Farm in High School, heh.
I also loved Fire Bringer, by David Clement-Davies, in my youth.
Sadly, outside of the internet I haven't read much lately. That's about it.
If you haven't read David Clement-Davies The Sight, you really should.
I did. Maybe it was just me and my love of deer, but at the time I recall finding it disappointing. I may have to give it a second less biased look.
Dashiell Hammett's "Continental Op" series of stories are my favorites. As Authors go he ranks high, along with Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Hitchcock, Rex Stout and a few other pulp fiction Detective writers. Shakespeare and Dickens I love, as well as Voltaire. Thomas Jefferson's "The Rights of Man" is frequently referred to. Louis L'Amour when I just want a fun read. Yeats, when I want creepy Irish tales. I read Tom Clancy quite often too. His fiction is very true to life, and I should know being a retired Green Beret. Tolkien is also a favorite.
I read many newer authors, but few stick with me. Most, in the fantasy and detective genres, just copy what's been written before, sadly.
In our genre, zoo fact or fiction, I read everything I find, but again few stick. Most follow the same tired beast format. Stasya T. Canine, Wolfheart, Roo, Proteus, Nevyn, and a few others stay on my reading list, though they no longer produce material as far as I know. They're all worth looking for.
Rannoch, Ramseys and Bear 28 are active writers of zoo fiction, as are occasionally Hairbear 58, Big Al, and a few more worth searching. If you can find the debates written by Hermes (Ebon Lupus), they're worth reading too.
Other than that, I read quite a bit of true Military Histories, usually by first person participants, and a lot of anthropology and archaeology texts and studies.
That covers most of it, I guess.
Never read books.
I don't know what you mean by story, but if that includes non-book stuff then that would be a list full of them.
Yeah, stories are pretty much any written narratives.
are visual stories like "Ghost in the shell" and alikes also written? They were and are great for me...... List is fairly stereotypical, sadly - "Ghost ..." 1 and 2, Patlabor 1 and 2, Wonderful Days, Wolf's rain, 'far away above the clouds (promised place)' - hm, it probably named a bit different.. Evangelion (and some russian fanfiction based on it...), Aim at the top, Final Fantasy: spirits within, Planetees (sp, saga about space trash collectors ..of course not), Skyland, The Last Exile, and of course I forgot how this film about virtual reality by Mamouru Oshii was named ...(ah, Avalon! great orchestra finale!)...
If you mean the manga, then yeah, I'd say it's valid. Anything you could realistically put on paper.
"King of the sea" by Derek Bickerton "Sirius" and "Last and first man" by Olaf Stapledon "Silent Partners" by Eugene Linden (and two other books from same ape sage), "the Mind of the dolphin", by John Lilly (more revolutionary than you think), "Fire upon the deep", by Vernor Vinge (strange tale, I especially like annotated edition), "Deep range" by Arthur Clarke (its about having bravety to move outside some predefined rails, even if your career seems to depend on it! among other things). Also some books from "Rama" series (in russian translation..) "Ender's game" By Olson Card (sp?), - amazing description about how humans might become worse then they wanted and should be.... "Amphibian man" by Alexander Belyaev - some pre-Lilly story where dolphin actually play friendly role, currently open in reader - "Anthony_Weston/Mobilizing-the-Green-Imagination"
also in russian translation I was reading 'Emancipator' series ... (very powerful love story, it also remind us slavery might as well return in even biggest form...)
many more smaller articles and books
You'd probably like Startide Rising by David Brin. A sifi about genetically engineered, intelligent dolphins in space. Can't get any better than that.
Not like I like Brin for now. Back in my much more naive times yes, those books were read. But since those times ...I started to heavily dislike his self-excusing view on slavery..Like, if all Galaxy supposedly does the same - we are good to do it, too ... :/
On more hitting front - Brin was basing himself on Lou Herman. He in turn researched his captive dolphins literally to death.... And also Herman was (until his death) pushing this view real (bottlenose) dolphins here on our Earth have no real native language ....from different (also quite asshole, and also dead by now) researcher (Vladimir Markov) I get strong view Herman was wrong on this ... You see the problem? If Brin used Herman as justification for basically nullifying real dolphins as source for some human-ends defined 'uplift' program, and real dolphins nowhere as 'primitive' as Herman asserted .... Humans not 'uplifiting', but actually destroying them....their culture, views ....
I tend to read fantasy particularly the series derived from the game Dungeons and Dragons. Read allot regarding equine like creatures in mythology and lore such as pegasi and unicorns. Yeah sort of a nerd here.
Also I love history so read much regarding such, particularly if horses are part of it. But one that has touched me deeply that I have read several times, each time bringing tears to my eyes and sending chills through my soul is the book about a horse who actually lived and whoms existence was almost lost for ever.
The book is called Beautiful Jim Key, named after him, and is about his life from foaling to death and also about the exdrodinary man behind the horse. A must read for any horse lover and I think very much so for any Zoophile as he ended up becoming the spokes-horse for the early start of the ASPCA by bringing forth the fact that animals where not just emotionless objects as much humans back then saw them. An early pioneer to the humane treatment of all animals.