Interview meme

[nwhyte]

As compressed by yhlee:

Drop me a comment; I'll ask you five questions; you do same on your LJ, if you like.

Her questions:

1. What consistently drives you nuts when you see it in a sf/f novel or short story?

Comments

[qdbii]

If you can think of 5, i wouldnt mind

[nwhyte]

1. What is your user icon?

2. How (and why) did you develop an interest in Bill Hicks? You were, like, eight when he died.

3. Is the Quote Database now basically over? Or do you plan to go back to it and do more updating?

4. Is Hector's House, which you mentioned here, a business or the home of someone you know called Hector?

5. Where do you see yourself in ten years time?

[qdbii]

1. The user icon is a charachter called gaz from a cartoon that used to be on nickelodeon called invader zim. The show got banned for being a bit traumatic on the kids. She's basically a dark goth-esque kind (9year old i think) who plays games constantly and takes crap from nobody

[nwhyte]

All very well - but you have to post the answers in your lj as well!

[min_baro]

Is this strictly literature or can we include visual media as well? I'll admit I haven't been doing as much reading/writing as I should.

"One type of story that irritates the hell out of me, and I think I must be unusual in this regard, is the "cute robot" story. The classic of this genre is Asimov's The Bicentennial Man.."

I like the machines take over view of things, as in the Terminator, Animatrix (If you haven't seen it, do so... they're way better than the Matrix movies they're based off of). I'm all for world destruction, yeah.

[nwhyte]

No problem with machines take over - as long as they are not anthropomorphically cute at the same time!

[min_baro]

They might not be cute, but I'm always vouching for the machines. There's something tragic about all machines (including toasters), in a Frankenstein's Monster sort of a way.

I felt immensely sorry for the mars rovers, being stuck in a cold barren planet and how the first rover still sends signals when the weather's warm enough, and waits for instructions from the earth, but can't really do anything because it's broken down. The thought still depresses me.

[sammywol]

Another peeve which I suspect is less widely shared is some kind of linguistic credibility. It doesn't have to be up to Tolkienian levels of complexity - George R.R. Martin or Juliet E. McKenna satisfy me perfectly well on this score. Robert Jodan, in his awful Wheel of Time series, does not.

Oh Bloody Hell YES! That and 'you use that word a lot: I do not think it means what you think it means' syndrome where some editorless moron has got his hands on a thesaurus but not a dictionary. Oh and lets not forget faux archaism faux pas like 'I goest with thou' etc. which I remember vivdily from an Avengers comic - Thor has a lot to answer for - that bugged me when I was only ten!

[nwhyte]

Yep - incorrect use of -est and -eth verb endings (and thou, thee and ye) is enough to make me stop reading the book right there. That and crap use of other real languages, such as the violence done to Welsh and Dutch in Shadows Over Baker Street.

[sammywol]

Your review of 'Shadows' does nothing to make me plan to investigate the abuses of Welsh and Dutch any further. 'A Night in the Lonesome October' will always be my favourite in that genre, for the scene in the graveyard alone.

[ninebelow]

"I don't care WHAT happens to these people!"

Unfortunately I think this phrase has become utterly debased thanks to rasfw where it is used to avoid articulating criticism and generally seems to be interchangeable "these people do things that I wouldn't."

That is indeed true.

[min_baro]

I think I got particularly annoyed at the whole "But I would never go do my laundry in the ghetto, and I don't want to know how the laundry is sorted" thing.

[pocketnaomi]

Ask me questions. :)

[nwhyte]

1. What political movement that made the local news did you start?

2. When you rode "a pair of dolphins", was that two simultaneously or one after the other? (My mind is boggling...)

3. How exactly were you related to Kingman Brewster?

4. Hollywood reverses a truckful of money up to your house and signs you to write a remake of any existing film you want. Which film? Why?

5. Name one song you're embarrassed to know every word to.