It's a bookish life.

[daiseechain]

I found this late last night on Calapine's journal when I was too zombified to do anything productive, and thought "Hey! That's quite neat. I think I'll do that." The longer I worked on it the slower I got till I was almost gave myself qwerty face. You can tell because my answers get shorter as the night wore on...

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[lolafalola]

14. What is the strangest item you've ever found in a book?

I bought a 1960's gay erotica book ... this was 20 years ago, so I'm old... Anyway I was reading it, turned the page and there was all this pubic hair mashed between the pages. I almost threw up all over it.

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[daiseechain]

Ahahahaha! Also ewww, but still funny. I used to work in a charity store - trust me, pubes turning up in an old book of erotica are not the worst you could have been running into...

Past a certain point of majority I tend to think age is irrelevant on the interwebs. Besides, check out my answer to 1. I'm no spring chicken!

[snowgrouse]

Holy crap, there's someone else who prefers LOTR in movie form. *cling* not that all the world-building and language stuff isn't awesome in the book, but the pacing is bloody dreadful. If they'd made a truly faithful adaptation, they would've had six hours of hobbits walking. And then hobbits walking some more. And then there's a Nazgul. And then the hobbits walk some more.

[daiseechain]

:-D Your description about sums up the real movie.

To be honest I've never made it through the first chapter of LOTR. Honestly. I keep falling asleep.

Pacing! Yes! That's the problem. And I take serious issue with almost any writing that doesn't get that correct - be it in the movies, a book, or on an episode of tv.

[snowgrouse]

It's such a shame, because it's obviously great stuff and everything. But Jesus fucking Christ, Fellowship is one boring book. I keep trying to reread it and I just keep arghing and going "get on with it" and just losing the will to live because nothing fucking HAPPENS. "Have some lovely English countryside. And hobbits walking. And no character or plot development whatsoever. And here's some more countryside. Aren't those trees over there lovely? And let's walk some more." Aaaaaaaaaargh.

[daiseechain]

LOL. Oh for the days when you could get away with that in writing and still be taken seriously.

I think possibly the worst thing about it is the number of world building fantasy books it spawned. You need to have a plot first, people!

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Fascinating, and funny. I am writing mine, because there can never be too much book love.

(though I think you could have skipped the whole second film of LOTR if they'd just been faster getting through the Black Gate at the start. Why does no one else spot that?)

[daiseechain]

I'll go check yours out shortly. It's always interesting to read about others' reading choices.

I can't even remember most of the second film. It was so disjointed I lost interest and I haven't read the book so can't tell how it compares. Didn't even bother watching the third movie!

[vilakins]

You've picked up books in interesting ways! I decided not to do this meme because I didn't think my answers (and sometimes there wouldn't be any) would be interesting enough.

Some themes allow you to change text (look under "Text" in the customize page). Mine allows me to change "Text for 'Current Music'" and it's an Expressive theme. You could try "Books" or "Reading" which is really nice. I see that's by the same designer as mine.

[daiseechain]

Thanks for the advice. I'll go check that out.

No interesting answers for books! How can that be?! I always find reading about other people's reading choices interesting even without the queries about how we got hold of the books or what we found in them. Actually, I suppose the oddest thing I've ever found in a book are some of the stories themselves.

[vilakins]

I can't answer a lot of the questions, that's my problem. I don't know which book I've had the longest, since my mother threw all my stuff out when I was overseas, I don't want to keep anything for retirement, I don't want to be a character in a book etc etc. In fact I only have answers for about a third of the questions so I don't see the point of posting the ones I do have. I'd do it if I had more answers.

[daiseechain]

I've tried several times now to change the text (thank you for pointing me in the right direction) but it just won't stick so perhaps I can't do that in this layout.

I'm reluctant to change the layout at the moment because I'm not a natural with such things and it would take me several days to get everything back to 'normal', so I'll have another go at some later point.

[ningloreth]

This is a great meme. Glad the icon has come in handy.

I love Richard Scarry! He's so witty -- the more you look into the pictures the more you see. My brothers and I grew up with his books.

I have a copy of Buried Treasure on my 'to read list

[daiseechain]

I knew the icon would get plenty of use the minute I saw it :-D

so my copy is now meticulously annotated!
Hee. I know how that goes. I now have 2 copies of most of the HP books (sourced from charity stores) so that I can scribble notes in them.

Given how many of my IT friends are heavily impressed with Tolkein I'd hazzard a guess that the man himself might have been Aspergers?

"I could tell you, but I'm bigger than you, so I'm not going to." His 'big' characters are all excruciating
As I said I've never managed to finish the book but given when it was written it sounds to me very much the way adults were treating children in the early 20th century - Do as I tell you and stop asking questions!

I just couldn't see the plot for the trees! :-D