Comments | muchabstracted: Shorter book meme

muchabstracted

Shorter book meme

Nov 17, 2006 04:02

I can't do the 1001 nights of meme seen on ayelle's and lynnoxford's LJ. But I can do this. Xeroxed from sovayListed below are the fifty most significant science fiction / fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club: bold the ones you have read, italicize the ones you started but never finished, underline the ones you own but never started, ( Read more... )

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dushai November 17 2006, 04:43:18 UTC

Snow Crash! Read Snow Crash!

I owe you email. I suck. Maybe a phone call sometime soon?

muchabstracted November 17 2006, 12:19:13 UTC

Works for me! I might even be around my phone for the latter portions of the weekend.

ayelle November 17 2006, 16:00:43 UTC

Heh, now, I said it wasn't a meme. I didn't get it from anyone else, I just wrote it.

Did you not like Stars My Destination or did you just get distracted?

muchabstracted November 18 2006, 00:13:04 UTC

Oh, right! I forgot about that.

I got distracted, I meant to go back to it but never quite made it. I'm sure I'd like it.

countessofgroan November 18 2006, 00:00:06 UTC

It's funny when two of my friends who don't know each other post the same meme.

Yay! I'm glad someone besides me hated Stranger in a Strange Land. Except I actually read the whole thing. Ugh.

muchabstracted November 18 2006, 00:14:11 UTC

Oh, it's not just us. I got validated on that by many people.

The bookaminute summary: http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/heinlein.stranger.shtml

countessofgroan November 18 2006, 00:24:53 UTC

That was funny, but it took a whole lot less than a minute.

taylweaver November 22 2006, 03:40:13 UTC

You know, it's rather impressive how similar my list would be if I had the time to do it - my tastes on one or two of the books would be slightly different - but I have read almost exactly the same ones.

muchabstracted November 27 2006, 02:58:17 UTC

Oooh! Someone with similar reading tastes? *gets out list of Books To Read* What's your favorite set of books, at the moment?

This has absolutely nothing to do with anything rymenhild December 4 2006, 00:53:30 UTC

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Re: This has absolutely nothing to do with anything muchabstracted December 4 2006, 01:15:25 UTC

*blinks*

I'm scared now. Entertained, but scared.

Re: This has absolutely nothing to do with anything rymenhild December 4 2006, 01:18:40 UTC

I tried lots of random names. This one, for whatever reason, ended up funnier than all the rest.

That's not true, actually. There was also the following:

1. If a snake is born with two heads, the heads will fight over who gets the Transcendent Pig.
2. The Transcendent Pig is worth his weight in gold - literally.
3. The Transcendent Pig can't sweat.
4. The international dialling code for the Transcendent Pig is 672.
5. The Transcendent Pig was originally called Cheerioats.
6. While sleeping, fifteen percent of men snore, and ten percent grind their Transcendent Pig.
7. The Transcendent Pig can clean his ears with his tongue, which is over thirty-nine inches long.
8. The Transcendent Pig is the traditional gift for a couple on their third wedding anniversary.
9. The Transcendent Pig was named after The Transcendent Pig the taxi driver in Frank Capra's 'It's a Wonderful Life'.
10. Long ago, the people of Nicaragua believed that if they threw the Transcendent Pig into a volcano it would stop erupting.