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Don’t take too long to think about it.
Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you.
First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
Copy the instructions into your own post.
1. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien - Yeah, kind of my literary mother tongue.
2. Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint - Second CdL I read after Yarrow, but the first one that really hooked me.
3. Moll Flanders by Daniel de Foe - I love her. A lot.
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - Yummy.
5. The Donnellys by James Reaney - Technically a play, but I've never actually seen the play, and I'm including plays because I can, and it was inspiring. If I'd done a Masters, this would've been why.
6. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin - I hated it. And I'll never forget it.
7. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis - Absolutely ingrained into my childhood.
8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - The books are actually more interesting than the Disney variant in ways that I found the Oz books never were.
9. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - Also better than the movie. I hate Kubrick. Loved the book.
10. Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay - I almost didn't read it because I hated the Fionavar stuff so much, but it was instrumental in showing me that Kay is actually awesome, and of the stuff I've enjoyed since, it's still my favorite.
11. Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams - I don't really know why. Maybe it's the cat thing. But I've read plenty of catfiction and I don't think I'll ever get this one out of my head.
12. Beowulf by Seamus Heaney - No, it's not actually by him, but his translation of it is just about the greatest thing in the literary universe. Ever.
13. Macbeth - Not my favorite, but I think the most memorable because it's the Shakespeare that made me give a damn about Shakespeare. I think also my first Shakespeare. Something about Banquo's ghost.
14. Murther & Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies - While I always adored his style, I didn't really care about the plots until this one. Movies are fun.
15. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut - I... what? Yeah. It's good. Brain.
Some things I could've gone with, I didn't, because the reasons they stick in my head are less than literary, like Into the Woods, and The Wizard of Oz, and all the fantasy movies of the 80s,The Princess Bride, The Last Unicorn, The Neverending Story, etc. The Black Stallion was another one. I read pretty much all the books in the series when I was a kid, but what I remember most about it is the movie, not the books. One that only occurred to me after the 15 minutes was up is Roald Dahl's Boy. I'll never lose that one either, since I read it while I was in boarding school.
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| Ahh, PvP |
[13 Apr 2009|09:18am] |
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( WoW Babble )
Why yes, being a jackass is entertaining, especially when it's earned, but... even when it's not. Bwaaaahahahaha!
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| Now I really want to learn to drive. |
[16 Feb 2009|09:42am] |
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So I've been giggling my ass off at Cake Wrecks for the better part of two days now. I thought I'd visited within some months, but dayamn, that person keeps busy. The ones for the past Christmas and Thanksgiving are making me cry with laughing. And then there are comments like, "John would like me to point out that this cake has teeth. And there are so many things wrong with that statement, I don't even know where to begin." Poor Jemy's trying to sleep, ahahahaha!
Anyway, I thought this was really cool if'n you haven't seen it before.
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| Shop... ping? |
[16 Jan 2009|11:34am] |
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Do any of you people do shopping online? I don't mean presents and books and crap, but actual shopping for necessities like groceries, day to day clothing other than awesome t-shirts, maybe drug store type things? I've probably asked this before, but... I'm asking it again!
Usually, I just send Jemy out to get stuff, but in this kind of cold snap weather, even I'm not that evil.
I tried ordering groceries online today, but managed to mess it up and it might get sent to Lees where I haven't lived in over a year. -_- I'm a genius!
And I've been kind of moping at the fact that 99% of my clothes is 5+/10+ years old. That's not a terribly horribly bad thing, but it means a lot of it is getting worn out and holey. The pants I have on right now (yes, I'm wearing pants!) have almost no crotch to them, and I know I've had these since high school. In fact, I remember buying them. At Zellers. I have a nightshirt from 1994 that only just this week finally disintegrated into nothingness. 1994... 14 years... More than half my LIFE! I'm a freakin' hobo! I know this because I got it the year the Lion King came out.
And one of the major reasons I don't want to go outside even to run across the street for a box of crackers is because my current winterwear consists of a coat I got at the beginning of college (which I guess wasn't that long ago, several years, but outerwear dies even faster, and it's kind of torn in a few places and has a pocket with no bottom, and I want a new one), a pair of steel-toed farm boots that I love that I bought to get stepped on by cows in college but they aren't really what I'd call "warm", and a box full of mismatched scarves/hats/gloves that I don't really want to go through because it smells funny, and I don't know how to launder those things anyway, and I would really rather just buy new stuff because everything in the box is decrepit and ancient.
But I hate clothes shopping. Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate. I hate being out in public generally, but more practically I hate the limited selection in (Canadian) stores. I hate trying things on and thinking something's not so bad and then getting home and wondering what the hell I was thinking. I hate finding out it's itchy/tight/annoying/makes me look more like a pink lobster than I already do when I clearly should have had the sense to realize that when I purchased it.
My favorite clothing shopping experiences of all time have been picking things up that looked useful at the grocery store where I was actually getting groceries, tossing the shirts/shoes/whatever in the basket for the hell of it, and getting home and finding out they were the greatest pieces of clothing I had ever worn and wearing them every day until they dissolved.
I figure I have a far better chance of getting that kind of luck online than going through boutiques and/or big clothing stores in the real world. I'd rather just point at something online and go "meh, that looks okay," and then send it back if it sucks. No people, no standing around, no walking, no needing to eat fuel in order to obtain clothing, no wearing my current lack of clothing in order to obtain new clothing. Plus, I've only had a credit card of my own for a measurable amount of months, so I kind of have an excuse for having absolutely NO knowledge of buying all that real world/non-entertainment stuff with my computer that is my real world.
This is not an invitation for people to buy things for me!
...unless it's really awesome.
I just want to know if other people who happen to read this buy those kinds of things online, where they buy it from, how they figured out those were good/crappy places to shop online, and generally what their experiences have been.
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| Patch Day! |
[14 Oct 2008|02:13pm] |
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Attempts to stave off panic attacks, failing. But if nothing else, I'm getting my fire back, baybeh.
( Amuses me. )
I'm fine. Should be working. Should eat food.
I'm fine!
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[02 Oct 2008|01:32pm] |
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I just went outside all alone of my own volition for the first time in the year since we moved here. Well, that's not entirely true. I think I went to the grocery store once in January. And yesterday I went to Subway for lunch. But today it wasn't even to buy anything. Although I did buy things because I have like three years worth of birthday money that I never spent, so why the hell not. But I went outside just for the purpose of going outside.
I'd be surprised that it took me this long to go stir crazy, but I don't regret a single minute of my hermitage.
I went and found a geocache my Dad had told me about. Now I'm about to go enjoy a healthy lunch of hot pockets and Pringles. Heh.
Welcome back to the real world, Nielle. Just in time for winter! Can I help it if this is the best season there is? Really? Took a year to see it here. Oh, and this neighborhood, if you go away from March, is disgustingly beautiful. It's like 50% pristine, exquisitely cared for parks, and 50% houses which are far too tidy. Especially with yellow leaves falling all around.
Of course, my legs are going WTFISWRONGWITHYOU at me now.
...PRINGLES!
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| I'm not dead. |
[19 Sep 2008|03:56am] |
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( What... the... f-- )
Thank you Dawson and Jemy for the coolest birthday presents. They are very cool. Worth being born. Hehehe. :D
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| Don't walk away then turn and say I love you anyway |
[18 Jul 2008|10:09am] |
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Well, I had a normal sleep schedule for about 48 hours. Now we're back to crazy town. I should be asleep now but for some reason I'm wired.
Other than ( moar sushi... )
I've been playing Assassin's Creed since we bought it on Wednesday. ( TEEHEE! )
Anyway, I'll try and sleep again for a bit.
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| Ham...? |
[13 Jul 2008|05:32am] |
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I desire this. So incredibly badly.
The Bacon Wallet.
I don't really desire the floss anywhere near as much, but it was also mentioned.
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[09 Jul 2008|05:09pm] |
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Some random person RE: not being able to read The Lord of the Rings until she had it read to her and still can't read it to this day.
"...there are parts where there’s a rhythm to it, and you don’t hear it in your head when you’re reading it to yourself."
Or you do. And that's why you love it when everyone around you can't stand it. And that's why you can read it from start to finish again and again, to the point where you have all 62 chapter titles memorized.
And that's why Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf is the greatest literary work in the known universe.
But you know what?
My father read it to my brother and I when it was too heavy for me to hold because my hands were too small.
Not Beowulf.
I cheated. :)
I read rhythm in prose. Actually, that may explain a lot about the books I like and the books I hate. Atwood has incredibly pretentious and irritating rhythm. Davies' on the other hand is comforting and solid. The Fionavar books versus the Sarantine? Huuuge difference in rhythm. HUGE. Pulp novels tend to have really terrible, wobbly rhythm, while short stories by the same authors seem so much more striking because they select words more carefully when working in a smaller space.
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| Squee? |
[09 Jul 2008|05:04am] |
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I am incredibly lazy and highly unfit. I avoid leaving the house for any reasons, big or small, even to make minor purchases, unless convinced to do so by my immediate family. I don't even talk to anyone outside my immediate family except in text via my computer. I play games, read books, write stories, and occasionally earn a couple dollars typing up interesting things that people say, but only when I feel like it.
And I am extremely, extremely happy.
Could be hormones, but I'm just not going to argue with liquid contentment.
Q's latest epic adventure. He now has the standard blood elf issues with fel magic, the actual plague of undeath, a curse from a mysterious dagger, some horrible disease contracted from an angry Barov, a poisoned scar from an angry orc chick that he keeps as a souvenir -- he got very drunk at the end of the fire festival and has no memory of what he did (was much hilarity), has lost an eye to an angry paladin, and now a kidney to a disgruntled priest, will probably develop a thistle addiction as a result, and still has several people who want to kill him, although many people who want to kill him at first seem to decide he's the greatest thing ever after a short time. This is because they are certifiably insane. Oh, and there's that gay troll who won't leave him alone despite continuously telling him to go the hell away. *giggles* Less than three.
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[22 Jun 2008|08:18pm] |
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Why yes, I do play a gorgeous elf-man on the internet.
And I thoroughly enjoy every minute. XD This festival was made for Q.
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