TV meme day 2 ; book alphabet: C
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
This is where I have to start keeping myself in check so as to not shout "Press Gang!" at every turn. They'll be plenty of time for that later. Instead, in view of how you guys failed to recognize the Mason/Daisy quote a while back, I'll say
For those of you unfamiliar with the concept: Eighteen-year-old slacker girl George Lass is unexpectedly hit by a piece (toilet seat) from an exploded space station and dies. After death, she finds out that she's not allowed to move on to the afterlife just yet. Instead she's assigned to be one of a team of grim reapers, who take the souls of people who are about to die, and guide them on to their afterlives. Not the best gig ever, especially since it pays absolutely zilch and you still need a day job. For instance, Roxy is a parking maid. Mason is a small-time crook. And George, well, there's always that temp agency she tried before she died...
I think I fell in love with DLM the moment George Lass sat in the temp agency's waiting room and voiceovered: "This is me. I'd say I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not. I excel at not giving a shit." Meeting the other reapers confirmed the love, and once they got into the dynamics of the post-George's-death Lass family - well. How often do you see a bereaved family that's realistic, unsentimental, yet likeable? Joy Lass may be the best good-enough-mother ever, and George's weird, serious little sister Reggie is brilliant in every scene she's in.
Incidentally, the Lass family dynamics is also the main reason to see the direct-to-DVD movie Dead Like Me: Life After Death. The reaper storyline isn't very enjoyable in that one. But none of that should stop you from seeing the brilliant TV series.
Day 03 - Your favorite new show ( aired this t.v season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite t.v show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite t.v show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best t.v show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First t.v show obsession
Day 29 - Current t.v show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
***
For the letter C at the book question alphabet, Lilla O asks:
1. How would you define chick lit? What is your relationship to the genre?
I consider chick lit the book version of the romcom, and unlike the romcom a genre I'm almost entirely unfamiliar with. I own the first Bridget Jones story and considered it an excellent parody of the sort of reader glossy magazines expect to have, until I read Sophie Kinsella's Twenty's Girl, with a similar heroine, and had to consider the possibility that maybe the parody isn't intentional. I've never been particularly tempted to read any other chicklit books I've heard of, mainly because I don't see myself as a chick. By which I don't mean that I'm in any way masculine (one date called me the most feminine girl I'd ever gone out with, which I must admit surprised me), just that the whole clothes-and-dates-and-diets thing has never really been anything I've put any effort into.
OTOH, someone placed The Poisoned Apples in a category of friendship-focused YA chick lit, and I quite liked that book, even if it barely got started before it was over. So I'd be very willing to read more chick lit of that kind.
2. Tell us of a book that contains an important ceremony.
Ronia's spring yell in Ronia the Robber's Daughter, especially since it's so easy - and so gratifying - to imitate. Go out into a place where the nature is so unbelievably beautiful that you feel ready to burst. Take a very deep breath and yell with all the strength of your body.
Okay, so maybe strictly speaking that's not a ceremony, but by Jove, let's make it one!
3. Cervantes wrote of the anti-hero Don Quijote. Who is the greatest anti-hero in literature, according to you?
Greater than Don Quijote? Wow, that's quite the competition. I guess if Jane Austen's Emma counts as an anti-hero, she's my choice. She's such a glorious character: rich and beautiful and intelligent, as suits a heroine, yet a self-absorbed busybody of a kind Austen claimed no one but the author could love - but by those very flaws, so true and loveable that I simply adore her.
4. Share a citat (quotation) that relates to books and authors!
"Böcker ska blänka som solar
och gnistra som tomtebloss.
Medan vi läser böckerna,
läser böckerna oss.
Kan böckerna läsa människor?
Det kan de förstås!
Hur skulle de annars veta
allting om oss?"
-- Lennart Hellsing
In translation:
"Books should shine like suns
and glisten like sparklers.
While we read the books,
the books read us.
Kan books read people?
Of course they can!
How else would they know
everything about us?"
This entry was originally posted at http://katta.dreamwidth.org/493335.html and has
comments there.
This is where I have to start keeping myself in check so as to not shout "Press Gang!" at every turn. They'll be plenty of time for that later. Instead, in view of how you guys failed to recognize the Mason/Daisy quote a while back, I'll say
For those of you unfamiliar with the concept: Eighteen-year-old slacker girl George Lass is unexpectedly hit by a piece (toilet seat) from an exploded space station and dies. After death, she finds out that she's not allowed to move on to the afterlife just yet. Instead she's assigned to be one of a team of grim reapers, who take the souls of people who are about to die, and guide them on to their afterlives. Not the best gig ever, especially since it pays absolutely zilch and you still need a day job. For instance, Roxy is a parking maid. Mason is a small-time crook. And George, well, there's always that temp agency she tried before she died...
I think I fell in love with DLM the moment George Lass sat in the temp agency's waiting room and voiceovered: "This is me. I'd say I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not. I excel at not giving a shit." Meeting the other reapers confirmed the love, and once they got into the dynamics of the post-George's-death Lass family - well. How often do you see a bereaved family that's realistic, unsentimental, yet likeable? Joy Lass may be the best good-enough-mother ever, and George's weird, serious little sister Reggie is brilliant in every scene she's in.
Incidentally, the Lass family dynamics is also the main reason to see the direct-to-DVD movie Dead Like Me: Life After Death. The reaper storyline isn't very enjoyable in that one. But none of that should stop you from seeing the brilliant TV series.
Day 03 - Your favorite new show ( aired this t.v season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite t.v show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite t.v show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best t.v show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First t.v show obsession
Day 29 - Current t.v show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
***
For the letter C at the book question alphabet, Lilla O asks:
1. How would you define chick lit? What is your relationship to the genre?
I consider chick lit the book version of the romcom, and unlike the romcom a genre I'm almost entirely unfamiliar with. I own the first Bridget Jones story and considered it an excellent parody of the sort of reader glossy magazines expect to have, until I read Sophie Kinsella's Twenty's Girl, with a similar heroine, and had to consider the possibility that maybe the parody isn't intentional. I've never been particularly tempted to read any other chicklit books I've heard of, mainly because I don't see myself as a chick. By which I don't mean that I'm in any way masculine (one date called me the most feminine girl I'd ever gone out with, which I must admit surprised me), just that the whole clothes-and-dates-and-diets thing has never really been anything I've put any effort into.
OTOH, someone placed The Poisoned Apples in a category of friendship-focused YA chick lit, and I quite liked that book, even if it barely got started before it was over. So I'd be very willing to read more chick lit of that kind.
2. Tell us of a book that contains an important ceremony.
Ronia's spring yell in Ronia the Robber's Daughter, especially since it's so easy - and so gratifying - to imitate. Go out into a place where the nature is so unbelievably beautiful that you feel ready to burst. Take a very deep breath and yell with all the strength of your body.
Okay, so maybe strictly speaking that's not a ceremony, but by Jove, let's make it one!
3. Cervantes wrote of the anti-hero Don Quijote. Who is the greatest anti-hero in literature, according to you?
Greater than Don Quijote? Wow, that's quite the competition. I guess if Jane Austen's Emma counts as an anti-hero, she's my choice. She's such a glorious character: rich and beautiful and intelligent, as suits a heroine, yet a self-absorbed busybody of a kind Austen claimed no one but the author could love - but by those very flaws, so true and loveable that I simply adore her.
4. Share a citat (quotation) that relates to books and authors!
"Böcker ska blänka som solar
och gnistra som tomtebloss.
Medan vi läser böckerna,
läser böckerna oss.
Kan böckerna läsa människor?
Det kan de förstås!
Hur skulle de annars veta
allting om oss?"
-- Lennart Hellsing
In translation:
"Books should shine like suns
and glisten like sparklers.
While we read the books,
the books read us.
Kan books read people?
Of course they can!
How else would they know
everything about us?"
This entry was originally posted at http://katta.dreamwidth.org/493335.html and has
comments there.