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Bold means I loved it/watched it religiously/etc.
Italic means I liked it but did not watch religiously.
Regular letters means I didn't see it or was pretty much indifferent to it.
* means I added this show to the list (if you gak from me, you have to add one of your own.)
Alien Nation
A-Team
Angel
The Avengers
Babylon 5 (season 3 and beyond)
Battlestar Galactica - old
Blackadder
Beauty and the Beast
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Bionic Woman
Danger Man/Secret Agent Man
Dark Shadows
The Daily Show
Doctor Who
Do Over *
Faulty Towers
Firefly
Freaks and Geeks (didn't like it until seeing it on the DVD release)
Forever Knight
The Greatest American Hero
Highlander
The Invisible Man
Jake 2.0
Knight Rider
Kung-fu
The Legend of Hercules
My So-Called Life
Monty Python's Flying Circus
My Secret Identity *
Nowhere Man
The Outer Limits
The Prisoner
Quantum Leap
Red Dwarf
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Simpsons
Space:1999
Space: Above and Beyond
Star Trek: TOS
Star Trek: TNG
Star Trek: DS9
Stargate SG-1
Stargate Atlantis
Starman
The Tomorrow People - old
The Tomorrow People - new
The Twilight Zone
Twin Peaks
V
VR.5
Vampire: The Masquerade (assuming this is Kindred: The Embraced)
Xena: Warrior Princess
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sage_theory tapped me for this one:Prose or Poetry?
Prose.
I deeply don't get poetry.
Book(s) you are reading now:
This list includes every book that I can currently recall as being in progress somewhere in my house.
Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky
Superman on the Couch by Danny Fingeroth
Conquistador by SM Stirling
Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow (again)
Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan
Kicking the Sacred Cow by James P. Hogan
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
and 40 zillion Comp II research papers
Last book(s) you read:
Bellwether by Connie Willis (for the zillionth time)
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Hitchhiker's Trilogy by Douglas Adams (again, and not including Mostly Harmless)
and 80 zillion Comp I essays
Next book you're going to read/buy:
Couldn't tell ya. Whatever looks good next time I'm near a bookstore or library. We just bought Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore for a bookclub, but I don't know if I'll ever be allowed to read it.
Book you've read the most times:
Either Bellwether by Connie Willis or Mockingbird by Sean Stewart.
Longest book you've read:
Erm ... Introduction to Government and Binding Theory by Liliane Haegeman (701 pages according to Amazon, and I had to read it three times cover to cover to prepare for my Master's exam)
Book you've read in the shortest time (relative to the number of pages):
Not a clue, since I almost never read one book at a time, nor straight through. Conquistador (mentioned above) is probably the book I've been actively reading for the longest, relative to the number of pages. I think I've been working on that one for almost two years.
One book you wanted to read that disappointed you:
Concurring with
sage_theory on this one: the Anita Blake novels. I can't stand Anita Blake as a person, and therefore can't justify spending time with her.Have you read books in a language different from yours?
I keep trying. I own several books in Spanish, including a translation of SF short stories that were originally written in English, and have read maybe the first dozen pages in each.
Writer you've read the most books from:
P.N. Elrod
Some books you like (not necessarily your faves):
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
So You Want to Be A Wizard and Deep Wizardry by Diane Duane
Bloodlist by P.N. Elrod
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Psion and Cat's Paw by Joan D. Vinge
Peter Pan by Sir J.M. Barrie
Three books you don't like:
Everything I've ever tried to read by S.M. Stirling. There's a reason his books take me multiple years to get through.
Three people who should take this survey:
Pass. I have no idea who's already taken it and who hasn't.
I'm curious what the responses from everyone on my flist would be.
indifferent
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You're the first person on my flist who has said that they dislike the new BSG; I was impressed by the pilot, but I haven't watched the episodes I've taped yet. Why did you dislike it?
"Broca's Brain" by Carl Sagan
That sounds like non-fiction, and interesting. What's it about? Language?
"Superman on the Couch" by Danny Fingeroth
I have a sad feeling that this isn't a novel from the PoV of Superman's psychotherapist...
"The Demolished Man" by Alfred Bester
Oh yes. One nice thing about memes like this is that they remind one of old favourites that one should re-read (as well as finding new potential favourites).
I can't stand Anita Blake as a person, and therefore can't justify spending time with her.
I haven't even been tempted to read the Anita Blake novels.
P.N. Elrod
Really? I met her once. Nice lady, but I'm not into vampires.
Psion and Cat's Paw by Joan D. Vinge
I want a sequel to Dreamfall! Wah!
Everything I've ever tried to read by S.M. Stirling. There's a reason his books take me multiple years to get through.
Yeah, I relate to that. Wordy but not lyrical. And I never manage to particularly shine to the characters. I mean, they're okay, but... maybe because they're more "clever idea" books, and the characters are just workmanlike. I mean, the obvious comparison I can make is between his "Island in the Sea of Time" with Eric Flint's "1632", which both had similar premises -- US town gets unstuck in time. I'd read Stirling's novel first, but I enjoyed 1632 a lot more, because I liked the characters a lot more. And maybe also because 1632 was... more compact, rather than long and rambling.
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*hangs head*
I know. I'll understand if we can't be friends anymore. ;)
In all honesty, I don't remember why I didn't like it. I got a few tapes on my first visit to the UK because it seemed like the kind of show I should like and ... didn't.
Why did you dislike [the new BSG]?
Probably for the same reasons I didn't like B7. Useful answer, eh?
In all seriousness, DH is a huge, huge fan on the new BSG, so I've seen most of the episodes. And Callum Keith Rennie aside, the show just doesn't click with me. I recognize that it's well written and a good show. We just don't have any chemistry.
"Broca's Brain" by Carl Sagan
That sounds like non-fiction, and interesting. What's it about? Language?
Ready for a long answer?
Kicking the Sacred Cow is a series of essays in which the author (James P. Hogan) takes on some of the assumptions of modern science and says, "meh, maybe not." You might like this book.
One of the essays is devoted to a non-scientist, a mythologist IIRC, named Immanuel Velikovsky who proposed in the 1950s that the planet Venus hasn't always been where it is, and we can in fact find records of it getting into its current location buried in our own world mythologies. We just need to start with the assumption that the ancient peoples were recording real events as best as they understood them, and weren't just telling stories for amusement's sake. Velikovsky published his theories in a book called Worlds in Collision, which promptly got him expelled from anything resembling the scientific community. His name got dragged through the mud, and an active hate/discreditation campaign was initiated against him. In his book, Hogan suggests that maybe it's time to reopen Velikovsky's argument for fair examination.
Broca's Brain is also a series of essays about things scientific, one of which is the primary published criticism against Velikovsky's theories.
"Superman on the Couch" by Danny Fingeroth
I have a sad feeling that this isn't a novel from the PoV of Superman's psychotherapist...
LOL. It's not. It's about superheroes, why we need them, and what we can learn about ourselves from them.
P.N. Elrod
Really? I met her once. Nice lady, but I'm not into vampires.
She is nice. I met her at a Con once, too. I like her vampires, mostly because they're hardly vampires in any historical understanding of the creature. I also like her style of writing.
I want a sequel to Dreamfall! Wah!
Wah!!
And I never manage to particularly shine to the characters. I mean, they're okay, but... maybe because they're more "clever idea" books, and the characters are just workmanlike.
Yeah, I see your point, tho it's not my primary problem. IMO, his stories always turn into military battles. And, I'm really not interested in this person fighting that person for any reason. I'd like to see the day-to-day problems; the reality of his "clever idea" scenarios.
Also, you're right about the rambling. His books always feel to me like products of NaNo.