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Books meme!
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1. What books are your comfort reading -- the ones you slink back to in times of stress?
Memoirs of an Invisible Man, How Much for Just the Planet, Brendon Chase, Harry Potter
2. What was your favorite book as a child, and why?
"The Neverending Story"
3. What was your favorite book as an adolescent, and why?
"Die Söhne der grossen Bärin" (The Sons of the Great Bear?), a series about a Lakota Youth who gets exiled from his tribe, along with his father. It's authentic and gripping at the same time.
4. What is the most unread category of books gathering dust on your bookshelf -- the books you've bought but just never get around to reading?
Comics books / Graphic Novels. I get seduced by the pretty pictures, but many of them never get read... although there might come the time I can use them for picture reference, so it's not a waste of money.
5. What kind of books would you like to say you read, but never do?
I would really like to be more interested in the classics, but I'm just not. At all.
6. What's the oddest book you've ever read?
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (great book). There were probably odder ones, but I can't remember
7. What book were you never able to get through, despite the recommendations of people you respect?
Die Buddenbrooks. That was yawnworthy. I stopped on page five, when Mann was still not done describing his protagonists. Did I mention I don't like the classics?
8. What's the book it took you a couple of tries to get into, but was as good as promised once you finally made it?
If I don't get into it right away, I never will.
9. What's your favorite short story...or do you even have one?
I loved the original short story the Movie "Enemy Mine" was made after. So much better than the movie. Also Dahl's and Asimov's short stories. And in one of the Star Trek fanfic anthologies was one called "Whatever You Do, Don't Read This Story", which was really original.
10. The desert island. Three books (and collected works don't count; if you want Lord of the Rings it'll cost you all three slots). Go:
The Physics of Star Trek, How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself, my Japanese textbook.
Those last longer than fiction.
This is also a test post. I'd have liked to hide this behind a tag, but I have no idea how to do tags... or html-links, or bold letters etc.
Books meme!
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taraljc1. What books are your comfort reading -- the ones you slink back to in times of stress?
Memoirs of an Invisible Man, How Much for Just the Planet, Brendon Chase, Harry Potter
2. What was your favorite book as a child, and why?
"The Neverending Story"
3. What was your favorite book as an adolescent, and why?
"Die Söhne der grossen Bärin" (The Sons of the Great Bear?), a series about a Lakota Youth who gets exiled from his tribe, along with his father. It's authentic and gripping at the same time.
4. What is the most unread category of books gathering dust on your bookshelf -- the books you've bought but just never get around to reading?
Comics books / Graphic Novels. I get seduced by the pretty pictures, but many of them never get read... although there might come the time I can use them for picture reference, so it's not a waste of money.
5. What kind of books would you like to say you read, but never do?
I would really like to be more interested in the classics, but I'm just not. At all.
6. What's the oddest book you've ever read?
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (great book). There were probably odder ones, but I can't remember
7. What book were you never able to get through, despite the recommendations of people you respect?
Die Buddenbrooks. That was yawnworthy. I stopped on page five, when Mann was still not done describing his protagonists. Did I mention I don't like the classics?
8. What's the book it took you a couple of tries to get into, but was as good as promised once you finally made it?
If I don't get into it right away, I never will.
9. What's your favorite short story...or do you even have one?
I loved the original short story the Movie "Enemy Mine" was made after. So much better than the movie. Also Dahl's and Asimov's short stories. And in one of the Star Trek fanfic anthologies was one called "Whatever You Do, Don't Read This Story", which was really original.
10. The desert island. Three books (and collected works don't count; if you want Lord of the Rings it'll cost you all three slots). Go:
The Physics of Star Trek, How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself, my Japanese textbook.
Those last longer than fiction.
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It's two weeks old or so, but set to mostly-lurking. (The original plan was lurking-only ;).)