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C_Bar asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 1 decade ago

What would you read at 4 am?

When you won't sleep. Then -- what would you read in the light of noon? And what as night falls? Three books.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I would read the same book at all three times. Sometimes I can read two books simultaneously but I prefer not to.

  • emilia
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    At four am I'd read the book I can reach without getting out of my bed.

    At noon, I usually don't have time to read, but I'd read the books I have to for history and English class. Crito or Apology, maybe Galileo.

    As night falls is the time I would read a book for entertainment. Right now, I'm not reading anything especially new. "The View From Saturday" by Konigsburg I've read before, it's young adult but I love it.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well, I have read all the books in the Twilight Series and the Harry Potter Series and i am a big fan of both. Most Nights, right before I go to bed, a read a chapter or two from one of the series. If I wake up early, then I might read some too.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Hi!

    The House on the Borderland , The Ghost Pirates or The Night Land written by William Hope Hodgson .

    :0)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hop...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_o...

    http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10002

    "In 1877, two gentlemen, Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog, head into Ireland to spend a week fishing in the village of Kraighten. While there, they discover in the ruins of a very curious house a diary of the man who had once owned it. Its torn pages seem to hint at an evil beyond anything that existed on this side of the curtains of impossibility. This is a classic novel that worked to slowly bridge the gap between the British fantastic and supernatural authors of the later 19th century and modern horror fiction. Classic American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft lists this and other works by Hodgson among his greatest influences."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_P...

    http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10966

    "The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (of quasi-human aspect, and perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate. With its command of maritime knowledge, and its clever selection of hints and incidents suggestive of latent horrors in nature, this book at times reaches enviable peaks of power." — H.P. Lovecraft

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_L...

    http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10662

    The Night Land

    by William Hope Hodgson

    [O]ne of the strangest visions ever published in science fiction or fantasy is presented. The Sun has gone out: the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, the Last Redoubt, probably the first arcology in literature, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark. These are held back by a Circle of energy, known as the "air clog," powered from the Earth's internal energy. For millennia, vast living shapes - the Watchers - have waited in the darkness near the pyramid: it is thought they are waiting for the inevitable time when the Circle's power finally weakens and dies. Other living things have been seen in the darkness beyond, some of unknown origins, and others that may once have been human.¡ª Excerpted from The Night Land on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

    =^,,^=

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    at 4 am, something simple but familiar like Harry Potter ... it would make me feel better and be able to sleep :-)

    in the light of noon, id read anything really

    as night falls, something a bit dark, like the spooks apprentice

    xx

  • 1 decade ago

    The Dresden Files, The Necroscope series, The Invader series.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I read fun and hilarious reads when I have insomnia.

    Three books? Okay, then.

    Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella

    Undead and Uneasy by MaryJanice Davidson

    Shopaholic and Baby by Sophie Kinsella.

    LAS

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Something easy like Harry Potter which I've read agazillion times but it feels like home.

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