OOH! AWESOME book meme!

[thepixieinside]

Television friending memes, general friending memes, multi-fandom friending frenzies, icon friending memes, the list goes on. But what about books? Books are the forgotten interest on LJ. Many people remember to list their favorite tv shows, favorite celebrities, and favorite movies, but few of us remember to list our favorite books. I don't think

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[rastnim]

Name: Christina/rastnim
Age: 18
Location: East Midlands, England
Favorite Authors: Oscar Wilde, Jostein Gaarder, Vladimir Nabakov, Virgil, Euripedes, Bram Stoker, Bill Bryson
Favorite Books: Picture or Dorian Gray, Dracula, Sophie's World, Lolita, The Aeneid, The Bacchae, Down Under, Memoirs of a Geisha, His Dark Materials
Genres of choice: Gothic Horror first and foremost, anything slightlu out of the ordinary like American Psycho or Lolita
Favorite fictional character(s): Dorian Gray
What are you currently reading?: American Psycho
What's next on your list?: The Monk
If you were stranded on a desert island, what book (only one!) would you bring?: Ovid's Metamorphosis as there are so many stories, I'd never get bored
A little about you: Uh, what do you want to know, surely you can go on my LJ...
Famous last words?: "either that wallpaper goes, or I do" ~ Oscar Wilde. If you meant last words in books, no idea. I know the last final chapter of "A Child Called It" is simply the word "Tis"

Yay for Book memes! Keep 'em up!

[thepixieinside]

"Tis" is also the last word in Angela's Ashes!!! Another book I love!

I love the movie American Psycho! I own it, but haven't read it because my friend is borrowing it!

[rastnim]

Coolio, I meant to comment on your icon when I posted that but I forgot! Yay for that sick, sick movie. The book is WAY worse than the film as there are somethings you just can't make into a film. Some of the torture devices he uses are sick. Brilliant book though.

[thepixieinside]

Ellis is a great author! You should read Less Than Zero...it is brilliant! :D

[shortypenguin]

Grey's anatomy related stuff: I made a stuffed bear a few days ago and named him "george" and gave him scrubs ;)

Name: Meghan Murphy
Age: 20
Location: Yellow Springs, OH
Favorite Authors: Tons!!
Favorite Books: Tons, again x3
Genres of choice: Usually fantasy, historical, romance
Favorite fictional character(s): Anton, All the LOTR chars, a whole lot of them
What are you currently reading?: Night Watch -Sergei Lukyanenko
What's next on your list?: I dunno x3
If you were stranded on a desert island, what book (only one!) would you bring?: Night Watch, most definately. It's becoming my favorite book ever
A little about you: Nothing to see here, move along!! x3 Nah, i'm pretty much your normal college student, not studying, procrastinating on LJ, working
Famous last words?: Night watch!! Step out of the gloom!!

[thepixieinside]

OOH! What is Night Watch about? ;)

[shortypenguin]

Well, it's a russian fantasy story (think the russian equivilent of LOTR...it has three entallments...Nochnoy Dozor (Night Watch), Dnevnoy dozor (Day Watch), and >Sumerechniy dozor (Dusk Watch)) based around a character named Anton (my new love) who is called an 'other' which means he can step into a place called "the gloom". He's part of the "Night Watch" which basically makes sure the balance in things between the Night Watch and the Day Watch is kept (they got into a huge fight, but a treaty was made) . It's a beautiful book, and just recently the first book has been translated from russian. I found it at B+N and it's SO WORTH looking for!! I also reccomend the movie (in Russian, though!) which I found at Best Buy in the horror section.

Whew!!

[thepixieinside]

OOH! I will check it out! Thanks! :D

[agguss]

Name: Agustina
Age: 17
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Favorite Authors: Victor Hugo, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Vladimir Nabokov, Katherine Mansfield, Sade, and other classical authors.
Favorite Books: Notre Dame de Paris, Pride and Prejudice, The Secret Sharer (is a short story though), Brave New World.
Genres of choice: historical novels, novels, biographies, etc.
Favorite fictional character(s): Claude Frollo (from Notre Dame de Paris), Colonel Brandon + Mr. Darcy (obviously from S&S and P&P), Malvolio (Twelfth Night), Bellatrix (Harry Potter), etc.
What are you currently reading? Many short stories by Katherine Mansfield, and some bios from an Argentinian historical character called Mitre.
What's next on your list? I have no idea. Probably some bio I find, or some interesting 17th Century novel :)
If you were stranded on a desert island, what book (only one!) would you bring? Notre Dame de Paris
A little about you: I really don't know what to say.
Famous last words?: Famous last words??, in a book?. No idea.

[thepixieinside]

OOH! You have GREAT taste! :D

[agguss]

Thaaank you!
&hearts

[sunshinedreamr]

Name: Jessica

[thepixieinside]

You have great taste!!! I cannot wait to read Eragon...I have it on hold @ the library! :D

[sunshinedreamr]

Eragon is awesome! I haven't read it in a long time, but the first time I read it I loved it so much I ended up rereading it about three times, LOL. I haven't gotten around to reading the sequel yet, but I'm sure it will be awesome :)

[thepixieinside]

OOH! I is so excited! *squees*

[chickenflicker]

Name: Cassi
Age: 16
Location: Minnesota, USA
Favorite Authors: Atwood, Rowling, Tolkien, Irving
Favorite Books: HP, LotR, The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, A Clockwork Orange, Fahrenheit 451, The Blind Assassin
Genres of choice: Dystopian and Fantasy.
Favorite fictional character(s): Owen Meany. :)
What are you currently reading? The Kite Runner
What's next on your list? Atonement
If you were stranded on a desert island, what book (only one!) would you bring? A complete compilation of Shakespeare's writing so I could act them out. :D
A little about you: Le muffin.
Famous last words?

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.