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Gakked from a bunch of people. Don't remember who I actually cut-and-pasted from. And I'm pretty sure that my answers today may be very very different from my answers next week.
1. Name your ten favourite fictional characters of all time and what book, movie or tv show they came from. (in no real order)
1. Lennie Briscoe (Law & Order)
2. Rey Curtis (Law & Order)
3. Fox Mulder (The X-Files)
4. Dana Scully (The X-Files)
5. Cirocco Jones (Titan, Wizard & Demon, by John Varley)
6. Spock (Star Trek: Original Flavour)
7. Worf (Star Trek: The Next Gen & DS9)
8. Tom Paris (Star Trek: Voyager)
9. Catriana d'Astibar (Tigana, by Guy Gavriel Kay)
10. Aliena (Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett)
It's so hard to pick just ten, though. There's so many more, especially from The X-Files, L&O, Star Treks, and Guy Gavriel Kay books. Like Jadzia Dax, and Harry Kim, and Abbie Carmichael, and Walter Skinner, and Lisseut and Signe de Barbentian from A Song for Arbonne, and Robin the Nine-Fingered and quite a few of the Titanides from the John Varley books... I'll stop there. (Later Edit: I lied. And Lucy Pevensie from the Narnia books, and Rilla Blythe from Rilla of Ingleside, and Taran and Princess Eilonwy from the Prydain Chronicles...)
2. Name five fictional characters that you would like to have an affair with and/or marry, plus the source. You may disregard any pre-existing attachments for these characters. (in no real order)
1. Prince Alessan from Tigana. Except he's kind of driven and tortured. So, just an affair, not a marriage.
2. Rey Curtis from L&O. Except he's a little obnoxious and waay too Catholic. Fling, yes, marriage, no.
3. Fox Mulder from The X-Files. Except he's way geeky and driven and more than a little clueless. So again, fling, yes. Marriage, no.
4. Walter Skinner from The X-Files. I dunno, something about those manly pecs... except he's a little too... uh... stern. Intimidating. One night only.
5. Ensign Kim from Star Trek Voyager. Yeah, him I'd marry. Geeky, and nice, and a little shy, and after seven years in space, he's not just a kid any more, you know! (for non-watchers of Voyager: this point was hammered to death since about, oh, the second season. And it got a little ridiculous by the end, since the actor, Garrett Wang, though youthful-looking, was actually in his thirties.)
3. Name five books/literary works that you would like to live in.
1. Tigana. Except, not during the whole name-that-cannot-be-spoken time period.
2. Mars, from Kim Stanley Robinson's (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars).
3. Gaea (Titan, Wizard, Demon series)
4. The Mammoth Hunters. A liiittle too much sex going on, and poor personal hygiene, but overall some good community traditions and social structures.
5. Harry Potter. Because I want owls to deliver my mail and I want to play Quidditch.
4. What classic/critically acclaimed work(s) of literature do you fully appreciate the artistic merits of but hate nonetheless?
The Lord of the Rings. I read too many books written "in the tradition of" The Lord of the Rings. Then, by the time I actually got to read the original, I just couldn't see what all the fuss was about. Which is too bad, because if I'd read it first I think I would have fallen in love.
And Of Mice and Men. God, how bloody depressing. Beautifully crafted, brilliantly executed, and I never, ever want to read it again.
5. Name five books that you would recommend I read. (in the comments)
1. Name your ten favourite fictional characters of all time and what book, movie or tv show they came from. (in no real order)
1. Lennie Briscoe (Law & Order)
2. Rey Curtis (Law & Order)
3. Fox Mulder (The X-Files)
4. Dana Scully (The X-Files)
5. Cirocco Jones (Titan, Wizard & Demon, by John Varley)
6. Spock (Star Trek: Original Flavour)
7. Worf (Star Trek: The Next Gen & DS9)
8. Tom Paris (Star Trek: Voyager)
9. Catriana d'Astibar (Tigana, by Guy Gavriel Kay)
10. Aliena (Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett)
It's so hard to pick just ten, though. There's so many more, especially from The X-Files, L&O, Star Treks, and Guy Gavriel Kay books. Like Jadzia Dax, and Harry Kim, and Abbie Carmichael, and Walter Skinner, and Lisseut and Signe de Barbentian from A Song for Arbonne, and Robin the Nine-Fingered and quite a few of the Titanides from the John Varley books... I'll stop there. (Later Edit: I lied. And Lucy Pevensie from the Narnia books, and Rilla Blythe from Rilla of Ingleside, and Taran and Princess Eilonwy from the Prydain Chronicles...)
2. Name five fictional characters that you would like to have an affair with and/or marry, plus the source. You may disregard any pre-existing attachments for these characters. (in no real order)
1. Prince Alessan from Tigana. Except he's kind of driven and tortured. So, just an affair, not a marriage.
2. Rey Curtis from L&O. Except he's a little obnoxious and waay too Catholic. Fling, yes, marriage, no.
3. Fox Mulder from The X-Files. Except he's way geeky and driven and more than a little clueless. So again, fling, yes. Marriage, no.
4. Walter Skinner from The X-Files. I dunno, something about those manly pecs... except he's a little too... uh... stern. Intimidating. One night only.
5. Ensign Kim from Star Trek Voyager. Yeah, him I'd marry. Geeky, and nice, and a little shy, and after seven years in space, he's not just a kid any more, you know! (for non-watchers of Voyager: this point was hammered to death since about, oh, the second season. And it got a little ridiculous by the end, since the actor, Garrett Wang, though youthful-looking, was actually in his thirties.)
3. Name five books/literary works that you would like to live in.
1. Tigana. Except, not during the whole name-that-cannot-be-spoken time period.
2. Mars, from Kim Stanley Robinson's (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars).
3. Gaea (Titan, Wizard, Demon series)
4. The Mammoth Hunters. A liiittle too much sex going on, and poor personal hygiene, but overall some good community traditions and social structures.
5. Harry Potter. Because I want owls to deliver my mail and I want to play Quidditch.
4. What classic/critically acclaimed work(s) of literature do you fully appreciate the artistic merits of but hate nonetheless?
The Lord of the Rings. I read too many books written "in the tradition of" The Lord of the Rings. Then, by the time I actually got to read the original, I just couldn't see what all the fuss was about. Which is too bad, because if I'd read it first I think I would have fallen in love.
And Of Mice and Men. God, how bloody depressing. Beautifully crafted, brilliantly executed, and I never, ever want to read it again.
5. Name five books that you would recommend I read. (in the comments)
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Date: 2003-09-28 09:54 am (UTC)btw, I think your kids would love the two childrens books that Gaiman has written. if only for the illustrations. One's called "Wolves in the Walls" and the other...man, I can't remember the other's title, but a kid trades his dad for two goldfish, and I LOVE the front cover. It's a guy in a suit with a fishbowl for a head, and where the eyes are, are these two goldfish. it's lovely.
1) Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
2) American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
3) The Shipping News
4) Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials series (technically kids books; love 'em anyway)
5) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian (there's one other post-Vietnam fiction book I want to rec, but I can't remember its title, so this one'll have to do.)
hope you haven't already read those...