Sunday Night Linkage

[erastes]

For those of you who have read and loved rwday's "A Strong & Sudden Thaw" - I've just found this interview with her - the slyboots!!! Great interview and teasing details about a sequel to Thaw.

I just found this site - Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics.  I LOVE NERDS. And my flist is full of them. Go wade in the Geekdom. The embarrassing thing is (as I didn't take physics at school, eschewing it for Bio and Chem) that I didn't even know half this stuff was wrong...

Book Meme: "Three books which.... "   gacked from thistlerose

* Three books that have marked your childhood...
The Land of Green Ginger by Noel Langley (Fanfic Aladdin, retold by someone wittier than Pratchett)
The Borrowers by Mary Norton (Wonderfully quiet characterisation interspersed with terror)
The Lion the Witch & The Wardrobe by C S Lewis (perfect perfect writing)

* ... and your teenagehood :
Lord of the Ring by Tolkein
Time Enough for Love by Heinlein
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

* Your three favourite books (only 3, even if it's hard!):
Time Enough for Love by Heinlein
The Charioteer by Mary Renault
Jane Eyre by Bronte

* Three books you could read again and again without growing weary of it :
Time Enough for Love by Heinlein
Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Hamlet by Shakespeare

* Three books you've read or are reading recently :
The Charioteer by Mary Renault (again)
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
Earthly Joys by Phillipa Gregory

* Three books that you'll read soon :
Virginia Bedfellows by Gavin Morris
The Stallion and the Rabbit by Mike Shade
A Summer Place by Ariel Tachna

* And one special, fetish book that you'd keep with yourself all the time :

Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein

I don't know what fetish means.  But I couldn't move from one house to another without knowing that I had this book with me. I share this book with everyone I know.

Comments

[logophilos.livejournal.com]

::cough::
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_fetishism

"Sexual fetishism is the attribution of attractive sexual qualities to non-living objects as an overwhelming alternative to the sexuality of a man or a woman, or as an enhancing element to a relationship."

You know, like men who wank off to women's shoes :)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

yes yes yes, i know what fetish means in that sense, but it sounded too general - you can't ask everyone who their fave piece of fetishism is as not everyone has a fetish.

[logophilos.livejournal.com]

(thought you were going to bed)

In this case, if it's not a sexual fetish, I have no idea. Unless they mean nonsexual fetish - "an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular a man-made object that has power over others."

Argh. It's a much overused and abused word and as you saw recently, one which is used as a taunt more than anything. Never mind, I'll go back under my rock :)

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

I wish I could love Jane Eyre the way some people do. I've tried three times to read it, and each time I've given up about a fifth of the way in. I love the story. I love the movies. "Reader, I married him," gives me a thrill every time I see it or hear it. Why can't I enjoy the book? *headdesk*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Hmm

You've read The Charioteer, yes?

Try and read it in the same vein, try and read it like a grubby book, (which it what it is)(in its way)

When people stop looking it at as a work of GREAT LITERATURE and as a piece of wonderful sweet titilation, it will be a good day

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

That's how I came to love Hamlet after all these years of despising it.

I wonder if I'd like Jane Eyre better if someone were reading it to me - on an audiobook. I'll have to give it a try, since I still really want to like this book!

And no, I've never read The Charioteer. I really should.

[haydenthorne.livejournal.com]

For those of you who have read and loved rwday's "A Strong & Sudden Thaw" - I've just found this interview with her - the slyboots!!!

D'OH! Why'd she say nothing about this?????

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I know!

*headdesk*

[lyras.livejournal.com]

Sounds like I'm going to have to read the Heinlein! And how was Making Money? I'm trying to sit on my hands until it comes out in pb.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Pretty good, I've only read it once so far, so I missed a lot I'm sure, I generally do, I'm still getting used to Moist - I like him, but Vimes is my utter favourite and any book that isn't centered on him is going to have to work hard. Vetinari however, is utterly brilliant in this - for once we actually SEE him being devious and machievellian rather than just manipulative.

[dea-liberty.livejournal.com]

I've only read a few of those. Will certainly have to take a look at the rest of them!

[maxfromathens.livejournal.com]

Dear Erastes.

It's unbelievable that I began to understand Shakespeare. You British are lucky to learn his works at school.

BTW, may I ask you something... Would you mind me adding you to my friend ? I should have asked you before, but I'm stupidly shy (I know that I'm not going to confess my love)! Be my first (please, laugh).

Can you accept that ill-matched new museum of Parthenon ? Me? Of course not.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

we hate them at school. I came to Hamlet before school and then again after it. I want to write an interpretation of it from the point of view of Horatio

I have added! I didn't even know you had an LJ! I'll see if I can get some female writers to pop over and answer your questions about m/m books.

And no. the new museum is not nice.

Re: Pickwick Papers love!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I just adore Pickwick. There aren't many books that make me laugh out loud, but that is one of them.

[aulic-exclusiva.livejournal.com]

Thank you for befriending me, Erastes. Too bad I am just a leettle past the Eromenos stage, sadly.

I guess I'll have to peruse Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein, neither of which I have ever heard of ! I know nothing of science-fiction except for Jules Verne.

I too love The Charioteer and Miss Renaud in general. Should read again.

Great me-me; will steal.

I know the verb 'to gack' as a synonym of 'to vomit', an onomatopoeic of, for example, the action and sound a cat effects when passing a fur ball. Great to know it can also mean to lick off; to steal. Will use.

À toute à l' heure.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Try and read Heinlein's "future history" series first - with all the Lazarus Long stories - otherwise you'll not really understand LEFL straight away.

It's very accessible sci-fi - character led, even though he was a rabid mathmatician and engineer, he knows his stuff.

And welcome! Lovely Tadzio icon.

[aulic-exclusiva.livejournal.com]

I love your Tadzio icons even more and would steal them in a minute if they didn't have your name on them!

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

The nerd thing...me and the boy love to do that on medical drama TV progs. "That drip's not connected...or even dripping!" or "That IVAC/Volumed isn't even running!" It's amazing how virtually everyone in Casualty or Holby is admitted with a heart condition. The amount of times cardiac tamponade is mentioned you'd think we're a nation of spasming hearts...oh...we are, are we? LOL We just watch it to spot the obvious mistooks.