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Here's my most recent dalliance with the internet phenomenom that is called memes, but is actually just a case of follow the leader. In this case, I got the idea from Curtana:
This is something of a trick question. I'm reading a couple, and having another read to me, via audio books. The book I'm currently wending my way through is Kangaroo Notebook by Kobo Abe. Every Japanese novel I've ever read has been surreal, and this one is no exception. It features a protoganist who has radishes growing from his legs and gets around in a mind-controlled hospital bed.
I'm also reading Tim McCreight's The Complete Metalsmith for school.
While working away at school, I've been listening to Bram Stoker's Dracula. It's really good!
2. What book did you read last?
Oh dear. I forget. I've been reading quite a few. I just finished listening to Ellis Peters' A Morbid Taste for Bones: The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. I didn't like it very much, though. I also listened to the BBC Radio's version of King Lear (starring Alec Guiness). Unfortunately, I just couldn't get into it too much. Either all my years of drama studies at university have killed Shakespeare for me, or else I've just lost my taste for grand tragedy. Still, I did enjoy the scene where the Earl of Gloucester has his eyes destroyed. Scary!
As for an actual paper and binding book, I think I just finished Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. A Morbid Taste for Bones was a pale imitation, I think.
3. What book are you planning on reading next?
There are so many! I'd like to read some sci-fi. I haven't read much, lately. Robert Charles Wilson's The Chronoliths is tempting me. But so are John F. X. Sundman's Acts of the Apostles, Chuck Palahniuk's Choke, and Yann Martel's The Life of Pi. If I can find the audio book, I next want to listen to Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.
4. Do you own most of the books you read, or do you borrow them from a library?
I own all of the books, but get the audio books primarily from the library.
5. Who was your favourite author when you were a child?
I had many. I particularly enjoyed Walter Farley, Madeleine L'Engle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Louis L'Amour, Jean Craighead George, Dr. Seuss, C. S. Lewis, Enid Blyton, Judy Blume, and Jonathan Swift.
6. What were some of your favourite books when you were a child?
Gulliver's Travels, The Black Stallion (and its sequels), Tarzan of the Apes (and sequels), A Wrinkle in Time, Where the Wild Things Are, Fair Blows the Wind, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, and My Side of the Mountain. There are many others, too.
7. Which literary character would you like to take out on a date and why?
I really don't know. Maybe Allan Quatermain. He seems like a fun guy.
8. Which author would you most like to have a 'one-to-one' with?
Kit Marlowe! I think he'd be fascinating.
9. Which fictional character would you most like to have a 'one-to-one' with?
Would people be angry if I said Jesus? Ah well. I think the real answer is Harry Flashman, anyhow.
10. Which literary character would you least like to be stranded on a desert island with and why?
Sam I Am, for sure. I'd stuff his friggin' green eggs and ham up his funny-shaped arse.
11. Which character would you most like to be stranded with?
Robinson Crusoe. If he couldn't figure out what to do, we'd be doomed, anyhow.
12. In which literary/fictional location would you most like to live?
13. Which is the best TV/film adaptation of a book you have seen? Why?
I really enjoyed the director's cut of Blade Runner, even if it doesn't have a whole lot in common with the book. Still, it was a neat interpretation. I also am enjoying the filmic versions of The Lord of the Rings far more than I ever enjoyed the books. Trainspotting, The Last Temptation of Christ, A Clockwork Orange, American Psycho, and Fight Club were also excellent renditions, although I think the foray into the doomed hooker's mind in American Psycho was missing the point of the detachment of the novel.
14. Which is worst TV/film adaption of a book you have seen? Why?
Definitely Lawnmower Man. Holy shit, that was awful! Not only did the movie have nothing in common with the short story, but it also sucked sore-encrusted, syphilitic donkey dick!
15. What film adaption do you actually like more than the book?
The Lord of the Rings movies are much more enjoyable to me than the plodding, song-infested books. I think I also prefer Fight Club on film to it on paper, because I think the ending was more deftly handled.
16. What book do you like better than the film adaption?
Most of them. Tarzan, for sure. I have yet to see a film version of Tarzan I really like. Ironically, I did get a kick out of the Bo Derek one. That was so bad it was good. The Black Stallion is far better as a book, too. As a child, I was distressed at the inconsistencies.
17. What are your top 5 favourite books?
I don't think I can limit myself to five, but here's what comes to mind:
The Bible - it just has so many great stories in it!
Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting
George MacDonald Fraser's Royal Flash
Gregory McGuire's http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060987103/theshanmonster">Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series
18. Who is your favourite author?
I couldn't pick just one, so here are a few:
Neil Gaiman
Christopher Marlowe
Irvine Welsh
James Morrow
Charles Swinburne
19. What is the most memorable line delivered in a film?
"I am the angel who guards you." - the angel near the end of The Last Temptation of Christ
20. What is your least favourite book and why?
Anything by Mercedes Lackey. She's a hack! Her books inspire me to rage, and I hurl the flapping things against walls and floors. It's quite therapeutic, actually.
21. If your life was a book, which author would you choose to write it?
I'm sure that if Shakespeare wrote it, I would suddenly become a most important ShanMonster, worthy of lots of study at plenty of institutes of higher learning. That might please my burgeoning ego.
This is something of a trick question. I'm reading a couple, and having another read to me, via audio books. The book I'm currently wending my way through is Kangaroo Notebook by Kobo Abe. Every Japanese novel I've ever read has been surreal, and this one is no exception. It features a protoganist who has radishes growing from his legs and gets around in a mind-controlled hospital bed.
I'm also reading Tim McCreight's The Complete Metalsmith for school.
While working away at school, I've been listening to Bram Stoker's Dracula. It's really good!
2. What book did you read last?
Oh dear. I forget. I've been reading quite a few. I just finished listening to Ellis Peters' A Morbid Taste for Bones: The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. I didn't like it very much, though. I also listened to the BBC Radio's version of King Lear (starring Alec Guiness). Unfortunately, I just couldn't get into it too much. Either all my years of drama studies at university have killed Shakespeare for me, or else I've just lost my taste for grand tragedy. Still, I did enjoy the scene where the Earl of Gloucester has his eyes destroyed. Scary!
As for an actual paper and binding book, I think I just finished Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. A Morbid Taste for Bones was a pale imitation, I think.
3. What book are you planning on reading next?
There are so many! I'd like to read some sci-fi. I haven't read much, lately. Robert Charles Wilson's The Chronoliths is tempting me. But so are John F. X. Sundman's Acts of the Apostles, Chuck Palahniuk's Choke, and Yann Martel's The Life of Pi. If I can find the audio book, I next want to listen to Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.
4. Do you own most of the books you read, or do you borrow them from a library?
I own all of the books, but get the audio books primarily from the library.
5. Who was your favourite author when you were a child?
I had many. I particularly enjoyed Walter Farley, Madeleine L'Engle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Louis L'Amour, Jean Craighead George, Dr. Seuss, C. S. Lewis, Enid Blyton, Judy Blume, and Jonathan Swift.
6. What were some of your favourite books when you were a child?
Gulliver's Travels, The Black Stallion (and its sequels), Tarzan of the Apes (and sequels), A Wrinkle in Time, Where the Wild Things Are, Fair Blows the Wind, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, and My Side of the Mountain. There are many others, too.
7. Which literary character would you like to take out on a date and why?
I really don't know. Maybe Allan Quatermain. He seems like a fun guy.
8. Which author would you most like to have a 'one-to-one' with?
Kit Marlowe! I think he'd be fascinating.
9. Which fictional character would you most like to have a 'one-to-one' with?
Would people be angry if I said Jesus? Ah well. I think the real answer is Harry Flashman, anyhow.
10. Which literary character would you least like to be stranded on a desert island with and why?
Sam I Am, for sure. I'd stuff his friggin' green eggs and ham up his funny-shaped arse.
11. Which character would you most like to be stranded with?
Robinson Crusoe. If he couldn't figure out what to do, we'd be doomed, anyhow.
12. In which literary/fictional location would you most like to live?
13. Which is the best TV/film adaptation of a book you have seen? Why?
I really enjoyed the director's cut of Blade Runner, even if it doesn't have a whole lot in common with the book. Still, it was a neat interpretation. I also am enjoying the filmic versions of The Lord of the Rings far more than I ever enjoyed the books. Trainspotting, The Last Temptation of Christ, A Clockwork Orange, American Psycho, and Fight Club were also excellent renditions, although I think the foray into the doomed hooker's mind in American Psycho was missing the point of the detachment of the novel.
14. Which is worst TV/film adaption of a book you have seen? Why?
Definitely Lawnmower Man. Holy shit, that was awful! Not only did the movie have nothing in common with the short story, but it also sucked sore-encrusted, syphilitic donkey dick!
15. What film adaption do you actually like more than the book?
The Lord of the Rings movies are much more enjoyable to me than the plodding, song-infested books. I think I also prefer Fight Club on film to it on paper, because I think the ending was more deftly handled.
16. What book do you like better than the film adaption?
Most of them. Tarzan, for sure. I have yet to see a film version of Tarzan I really like. Ironically, I did get a kick out of the Bo Derek one. That was so bad it was good. The Black Stallion is far better as a book, too. As a child, I was distressed at the inconsistencies.
17. What are your top 5 favourite books?
I don't think I can limit myself to five, but here's what comes to mind:
The Bible - it just has so many great stories in it!
Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting
George MacDonald Fraser's Royal Flash
Gregory McGuire's http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060987103/theshanmonster">Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series
18. Who is your favourite author?
I couldn't pick just one, so here are a few:
Neil Gaiman
Christopher Marlowe
Irvine Welsh
James Morrow
Charles Swinburne
19. What is the most memorable line delivered in a film?
"I am the angel who guards you." - the angel near the end of The Last Temptation of Christ
20. What is your least favourite book and why?
Anything by Mercedes Lackey. She's a hack! Her books inspire me to rage, and I hurl the flapping things against walls and floors. It's quite therapeutic, actually.
21. If your life was a book, which author would you choose to write it?
I'm sure that if Shakespeare wrote it, I would suddenly become a most important ShanMonster, worthy of lots of study at plenty of institutes of higher learning. That might please my burgeoning ego.
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Date: 2003-09-24 12:45 pm (UTC)From:Hey, at least the computer animation sequences were trippy and entertaining. More than I can say for Starship Troopers, which also had nothing to do with the book and sucked sore-encrusted, syphilitic donkey dick. A big fat purple one, at that.