Grr.. Argh...
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beckymonsterIf it's not folks after our chocolate, they're after omnisexual, immortal time agent/companion types. What's next?!
For the record - the second item has an awful lot of 'ifs' and 'buts' (not the type Jack likes neither;)) and 'maybes'. Torchwood is more than likely to get a fourth series - the thing is how... I just pray that it's not at the expense of the main reason for watching the series - Captain Jack Harkness.
Um... yes, slightly grumpy monster is slightly grumpy at present. With everything else going on in the world, it's nothing. Even so, can it please be next Friday nao?
Anyway - have a meme on books.
1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
That would be 2001: A Space Oddessey, I brought it to read on a 36 hour trip from Eastbourne to Drogheda, Ireland. Must have been 11, I think. Didn't really read it fully until a couple of years later. Let's not discuss how long it took me to actually *watch the film!
2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you'll read next?
Last Read Sense and Sensiblity and Sea Monsters
Current read: The Mayor Of Castro Street - The Life And Times of Harvey Milk, which I'm halfway through and am thoroughly enjoying it. For example, did you know that the Moon Landings, Judy Garland's death and the Stonewall Riots (from which the advocacy group gets it's name all happened in the same month (the last two happened in the same week - one led to another). Well worth a look.
Next up:That's a good question... Possibly Torchwood: Risk Assessment, written by the same chap who wrote Almost Perfect - which is arguably one of the best TW novels out there.
Or it could be Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. I'll see what tickles when I finish the current book.
3. What book did everyone like and you hated?
Um... I don't think there has been one - although the whole Twilight phenomenon has left me right behind. Trust me, it takes a lot for me to put a book away once I start reading and this made me. So, I think that might count.
4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you'll read, but you probably won't?
I don't think there is one - I'll try anything that tickles my fancy. Although I do tend to draw away from books that people say I *should* read. I do not take well to being told (unless you are *paying* me!) what to do.
5. Which book are you saving for "retirement?"
Not exactly 'saving' but I would love the time to be able to go back and re-read quite a few of my favourites - Lord of the Rings, the Dreseden Files etc. Too many books, not enough time!
6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?
How about half way through? I always get curious, about how long a book is - so when I'm trying to find out, I tend to... y'know!;)
7. Acknowledgments: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
Interesting aside. The writers are humans, with loved ones and friends and... heck, one of my flist is namechecked in a Jim Butcher novel. No names, of course, but how cool is that;)
8. Which book character would you switch places with?
I can't think of anyone - although I've always wanted to work in Lucien's Library (from the Sandman graphic novels)
9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)
Oh hell, yes! Let me see...
The Fourth Bear which I took on holiday with me to Newcastle in 2006 - read that on the train (my first time travelling first class - swanky!).
Anything Goes by John Barrowman and Carole E. Barrowman, which was a birthday present from my sister. Read that the day I saw both Speed Racer and The Doctor's Daughter in London around a friends house. I have a vague memory of racing through the corridors of Waterloo station trying to read it... It ain't much of an annecdote but it was A Good Day that deserves to be remembered as such.
There are others, but these are the ones I can see right now and can tell the stories straight off the top of my head...
10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
Matthew Bourne and his Adventures in Motion Pictures I got as a freebie... other than that - the usual way - spending more time in Waterstones than strictly healthy and gleefully spending far too much money.
11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
No. I love my books, they are my friends. I may give some away to charity shops, but that's so that someone else will love them and the charity will put the money to good use.
12. Which book has been with you to the most places?
I don't think there has been one. Although my copy of Dune did go to Germany with me twenty years ago and I'm sure it went oop north with me too... Does that count?
13. Any "required reading" you hated in high secondary school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?
Pride and Prejudice! Bored me silly at 'A'-Level, only re-read it when the 1995 production was on tv... and to my astonishment I read it three days and loved it! See comment about being *made* to read things.
14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
Even though I work in a Library, I don't think I can answer that one - or if I could, I've blotted out the memory...
15. Used or brand new?
Depends on condition and availability. I'd prefer new or nearly new.
16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
I've learned never to knock anyone's reading choices. If people are reading books then that can only be a good thing, y/y?Mainly because I'm no intellectual when it comes to my own reading habits!
17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
Weeelll... I am a firm believer in the fact that Peter Jackson was the editor Tolkien *should* have had (ducks flying objects).
Other than that... Last of the Mohicans. Not to mention quite a few Bond films too - Goldfinger certainly being one of them!
18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
Memoirs of a Geisha lost something in translation.
19. Have you ever read a book that's made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?
I don't think so, movies yes, books no.
20. Who is the person whose book advice you'll always take?
I don't think there is someone who's advice I'll always take but... when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nialla42 says an author is worth reading/a show is worth watching, then I tend to take notice. For she is usually 100% right!
For the record - the second item has an awful lot of 'ifs' and 'buts' (not the type Jack likes neither;)) and 'maybes'. Torchwood is more than likely to get a fourth series - the thing is how... I just pray that it's not at the expense of the main reason for watching the series - Captain Jack Harkness.
Um... yes, slightly grumpy monster is slightly grumpy at present. With everything else going on in the world, it's nothing. Even so, can it please be next Friday nao?
Anyway - have a meme on books.
1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
That would be 2001: A Space Oddessey, I brought it to read on a 36 hour trip from Eastbourne to Drogheda, Ireland. Must have been 11, I think. Didn't really read it fully until a couple of years later. Let's not discuss how long it took me to actually *watch the film!
2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you'll read next?
Last Read Sense and Sensiblity and Sea Monsters
Current read: The Mayor Of Castro Street - The Life And Times of Harvey Milk, which I'm halfway through and am thoroughly enjoying it. For example, did you know that the Moon Landings, Judy Garland's death and the Stonewall Riots (from which the advocacy group gets it's name all happened in the same month (the last two happened in the same week - one led to another). Well worth a look.
Next up:That's a good question... Possibly Torchwood: Risk Assessment, written by the same chap who wrote Almost Perfect - which is arguably one of the best TW novels out there.
Or it could be Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. I'll see what tickles when I finish the current book.
3. What book did everyone like and you hated?
Um... I don't think there has been one - although the whole Twilight phenomenon has left me right behind. Trust me, it takes a lot for me to put a book away once I start reading and this made me. So, I think that might count.
4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you'll read, but you probably won't?
I don't think there is one - I'll try anything that tickles my fancy. Although I do tend to draw away from books that people say I *should* read. I do not take well to being told (unless you are *paying* me!) what to do.
5. Which book are you saving for "retirement?"
Not exactly 'saving' but I would love the time to be able to go back and re-read quite a few of my favourites - Lord of the Rings, the Dreseden Files etc. Too many books, not enough time!
6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?
How about half way through? I always get curious, about how long a book is - so when I'm trying to find out, I tend to... y'know!;)
7. Acknowledgments: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
Interesting aside. The writers are humans, with loved ones and friends and... heck, one of my flist is namechecked in a Jim Butcher novel. No names, of course, but how cool is that;)
8. Which book character would you switch places with?
I can't think of anyone - although I've always wanted to work in Lucien's Library (from the Sandman graphic novels)
9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)
Oh hell, yes! Let me see...
The Fourth Bear which I took on holiday with me to Newcastle in 2006 - read that on the train (my first time travelling first class - swanky!).
Anything Goes by John Barrowman and Carole E. Barrowman, which was a birthday present from my sister. Read that the day I saw both Speed Racer and The Doctor's Daughter in London around a friends house. I have a vague memory of racing through the corridors of Waterloo station trying to read it... It ain't much of an annecdote but it was A Good Day that deserves to be remembered as such.
There are others, but these are the ones I can see right now and can tell the stories straight off the top of my head...
10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
Matthew Bourne and his Adventures in Motion Pictures I got as a freebie... other than that - the usual way - spending more time in Waterstones than strictly healthy and gleefully spending far too much money.
11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
No. I love my books, they are my friends. I may give some away to charity shops, but that's so that someone else will love them and the charity will put the money to good use.
12. Which book has been with you to the most places?
I don't think there has been one. Although my copy of Dune did go to Germany with me twenty years ago and I'm sure it went oop north with me too... Does that count?
13. Any "required reading" you hated in high secondary school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?
Pride and Prejudice! Bored me silly at 'A'-Level, only re-read it when the 1995 production was on tv... and to my astonishment I read it three days and loved it! See comment about being *made* to read things.
14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
Even though I work in a Library, I don't think I can answer that one - or if I could, I've blotted out the memory...
15. Used or brand new?
Depends on condition and availability. I'd prefer new or nearly new.
16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
I've learned never to knock anyone's reading choices. If people are reading books then that can only be a good thing, y/y?
17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
Weeelll... I am a firm believer in the fact that Peter Jackson was the editor Tolkien *should* have had (ducks flying objects).
Other than that... Last of the Mohicans. Not to mention quite a few Bond films too - Goldfinger certainly being one of them!
18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
Memoirs of a Geisha lost something in translation.
19. Have you ever read a book that's made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?
I don't think so, movies yes, books no.
20. Who is the person whose book advice you'll always take?
I don't think there is someone who's advice I'll always take but... when
nialla42 says an author is worth reading/a show is worth watching, then I tend to take notice. For she is usually 100% right! 
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Date: 2010-01-20 09:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-20 11:26 pm (UTC)I'm rolling my eyes a little less that normal upon hearing of the Torchwood remake, given that RTD and Ms. Gardiner are involved. Fingers crossed it'll be what the series ought to have been the first time around.
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Date: 2010-01-21 04:36 am (UTC)I didn't know the guy who wrote "Almost Perfect" had written another Torchwood book. I'll have to look for it.
Thank you for the praise, m'dear. I take great pride in being a Book Pimp. Which actually has nothing to do with working in a library, because it's just a natural habit that I've used to best advantage. ;)
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Date: 2010-01-25 06:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-25 06:40 pm (UTC)Yes, I have a crush on the good captain that's the size of a small moon.
Ditto the actor who plays him!. No apologies (except for spelling!)I fear that the things that make Jack awesome (imho) are going to be squelched to *please* Fox... who are more than likely to cancel it before it makes four episodes anyhoo... After all - they did have a hand in the much hated Who TV Movie...
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Date: 2010-01-25 06:53 pm (UTC)Needless to say that the werewolf will keep his/her pants on (both meanings of the word!) and the 'dorky/geeky' (i.e. their version of the lovely Russell Tovey) second lead male is going to make John Barrowman look... ugly.
I didn't know the guy who wrote "Almost Perfect" had written another Torchwood book. I'll have to look for it.
Yes, see link for useful details like ISBN - also he's writing a Being Human novel too Bad Blood (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1846079004/ref=s9_simi_gw_s5_p14_t1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=11EV2FP7TY5RHD379JAK&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128473&pf_rd_i=468294). I'll pick it up when it's released but don't expect a review for at least... three months!
Too many books! Not enough time to read them!
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Date: 2010-01-26 02:31 am (UTC)Too many books! Not enough time to read them!
Amen!