Fandom meme and links
It's been ages since I've done a fandom meme, and this is such a perfect one for me.
Give me a non-Harry Potter character and I will answer:
a) Which Hogwarts house I think they’d belong in
b) Which position they’d play in Quidditch
c) What their favorite class would be
d) Which memory a dementor would force them to relive
e) What they would see in the Mirror of Erised
f) What form their boggart would take
g) Which Harry Potter character would most likely be their best friend
h) What career they would take after Hogwarts
So, give me a character, or a bunch! Fandoms of note:
ASOIAF, AtLA/Korra, Avengers (movie-verse only), Babylon 5, Buffy (halfway through s6), Chronicles of Amber, Curseworkers, Demon's Noun, Discworld, Dragaera/Vlad Taltos, Dresden Files, Firefly, Kingkiller Chronicles, Kushiel's Legacy, Lord of the Rings, Rivers of London, Sherlock BBC, Temeraire, Tortall, Vorkosigan Saga, and anything else you know I'm into (...and I find I've been especially missing Dragaera, Rivers of London, and Vorkosigan Saga lately)
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I have a bunch of RL stuff to talk about -- we had a school potluck on Friday, and a neighbor encounter today, and Saturday was both March 8 (a holiday of sorts) and my grandfather's birthday celebration, but I don't feel like talking about RL stuff...
But so this entry is not all meme, a couple of links:
Via Neil Gaimain, most popular book in each US state. I've only read a couple (Gaiman's stuff, and maaaybe the Hollows one, I forget), but it's an interesting list.
This podcast talks about sequels that are better than the original book. I don't know that the podcast is really worth listening to, incrementally vs the list of books on that page, although there is an amusing Discworld reading order rant, but it's a neat question.
Of the ones I've read, I agree with Guns of Avalon (this is when I stopped reading Amber for genre education and started loving it), Paladin of Souls (and not just because I have a huge crush on Arhys dy Lutez), Wise Man's Fear (I thought NotW was good but not OMGgreat, but WMF is the one I fell in love with and wanted to talk about to everyone), Privilege of the Sword (although in large part just because I think Kushner had matured a lot as an author; but I also think it would've been even better if it didn't have to meet up with Fall of the Kings, which IMO is the weakest of the three), and Mirador (my favorite of the tetralogy, which I hadn't expected.
I disagree about the Tamir Trilogy (Bone Doll's Twin was my favorite, and made me want to read the next one, while the same was not true of the second book, as can be seen from the fact that book #3 has been lying on my to-read pile for ages -- sorry, lunasariel!), Best Served Cold (although I know quite a few people who liked BSC while finding First Law unreadable). I would also agree with the one guy who said Storm of Swords was the best of the ASOIAF sequels, not Clash of Kings. And I read the first three Dresden Files books so close together, I don't remember what I thought of them, but I don't think they start getting really good until later than fool Moon. And Two Towers is totally my favorite, so, whatever (though, admittedly, mostly for the first half).
A while back I'd linked to a few tracks from the Russian Vorkosigan Saga rock-opera about Prince Serg (more or less). I forget what I was browsing, but I found the full listing of all 22 tracks + libretto, though it's all in Russian (a few songs have been translated, but I haven't seen them). For the vanishingly small number of people who could be interested in this (hi, Kay!), I will mention that the opera is set post-series, but while it's hugely spoilery for Shards of Honor it is only mildly/vaguely spoilery for the rest of the books (but if one is a purist, let's say spoilery through Memory).
Peter Grant headshot, found in circuitous ways, but also a handy reminder to me that Aaronovitch has an LJ, though he doesn't use it much.
Give me a non-Harry Potter character and I will answer:
a) Which Hogwarts house I think they’d belong in
b) Which position they’d play in Quidditch
c) What their favorite class would be
d) Which memory a dementor would force them to relive
e) What they would see in the Mirror of Erised
f) What form their boggart would take
g) Which Harry Potter character would most likely be their best friend
h) What career they would take after Hogwarts
So, give me a character, or a bunch! Fandoms of note:
ASOIAF, AtLA/Korra, Avengers (movie-verse only), Babylon 5, Buffy (halfway through s6), Chronicles of Amber, Curseworkers, Demon's Noun, Discworld, Dragaera/Vlad Taltos, Dresden Files, Firefly, Kingkiller Chronicles, Kushiel's Legacy, Lord of the Rings, Rivers of London, Sherlock BBC, Temeraire, Tortall, Vorkosigan Saga, and anything else you know I'm into (...and I find I've been especially missing Dragaera, Rivers of London, and Vorkosigan Saga lately)
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I have a bunch of RL stuff to talk about -- we had a school potluck on Friday, and a neighbor encounter today, and Saturday was both March 8 (a holiday of sorts) and my grandfather's birthday celebration, but I don't feel like talking about RL stuff...
But so this entry is not all meme, a couple of links:
Via Neil Gaimain, most popular book in each US state. I've only read a couple (Gaiman's stuff, and maaaybe the Hollows one, I forget), but it's an interesting list.
This podcast talks about sequels that are better than the original book. I don't know that the podcast is really worth listening to, incrementally vs the list of books on that page, although there is an amusing Discworld reading order rant, but it's a neat question.
Of the ones I've read, I agree with Guns of Avalon (this is when I stopped reading Amber for genre education and started loving it), Paladin of Souls (and not just because I have a huge crush on Arhys dy Lutez), Wise Man's Fear (I thought NotW was good but not OMGgreat, but WMF is the one I fell in love with and wanted to talk about to everyone), Privilege of the Sword (although in large part just because I think Kushner had matured a lot as an author; but I also think it would've been even better if it didn't have to meet up with Fall of the Kings, which IMO is the weakest of the three), and Mirador (my favorite of the tetralogy, which I hadn't expected.
I disagree about the Tamir Trilogy (Bone Doll's Twin was my favorite, and made me want to read the next one, while the same was not true of the second book, as can be seen from the fact that book #3 has been lying on my to-read pile for ages -- sorry, lunasariel!), Best Served Cold (although I know quite a few people who liked BSC while finding First Law unreadable). I would also agree with the one guy who said Storm of Swords was the best of the ASOIAF sequels, not Clash of Kings. And I read the first three Dresden Files books so close together, I don't remember what I thought of them, but I don't think they start getting really good until later than fool Moon. And Two Towers is totally my favorite, so, whatever (though, admittedly, mostly for the first half).
A while back I'd linked to a few tracks from the Russian Vorkosigan Saga rock-opera about Prince Serg (more or less). I forget what I was browsing, but I found the full listing of all 22 tracks + libretto, though it's all in Russian (a few songs have been translated, but I haven't seen them). For the vanishingly small number of people who could be interested in this (hi, Kay!), I will mention that the opera is set post-series, but while it's hugely spoilery for Shards of Honor it is only mildly/vaguely spoilery for the rest of the books (but if one is a purist, let's say spoilery through Memory).
Peter Grant headshot, found in circuitous ways, but also a handy reminder to me that Aaronovitch has an LJ, though he doesn't use it much.