Because I want to not think about whatever it is that's making me upset

[oceantheorem]

Another meme thingy.

Swiped from brinshannara.

1. Choose five of your all-time favorite books.
2. Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
3. Don't reveal the author or the title of the book.
4. Now everyone try to guess.

Um, and five was too easy. So to make up for the TV show thing, I picked ten books.

1. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. The Great Gatsby, guessed by robohunk

2. "Your grandfather," said Vanyel's brawny, fifteen-year-old cousin Radevel, "was crazy." Magic's Pawn, guessed by owlishness

3. "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get." Ender's Game, guessed by mediathrall

4. The year that Buttercup was born, the most beautiful woman in the world was a French scullery maid named Annette. The Princess Bride, guessed by robohunk

5. "Sh'Gall is out on other Weyr business," Moreta told Nesso for the third time, beginning to loosen her sweat- and oil-stained tunic as a hint. Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern, guessed by kaminoshi

6. Cannon School occupied an entire block of New Orleans, its sprawl of manicured lawns and neocolonial brick buildings dividing the neighborhood in half. A Density of Souls, guessed by lumivel

7. Three children lay on the rocks at the water's edge. Daughter of the Forest, guessed by mediathrall

8. "Gramma, is that man following us?"

9. The house stood on a slight rise just on the edge of the village. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, guessed by Ann, whom I think cheated, and owlishness, whom I know cheated

10. Lest anyone should suppose that I am a cuckoo's child, got on the wrong side of the blanket by lusty peasant stock and sold into indenture in a shortfallen season, I may say that I am House-born and reared in the Night Court proper, for all the good it did me. Kushiel's Dart, guessed by owlishness, and also by Ann, who is too forgetful to have a livejournal


Some of these are pretty blatantly obvious... Others not so much. At any rate, I will leave this up for a few days before I start panicking, Alicia... so guess at your leisure. I'll edit the post with the answers as you guys get them.

Comments

[robohunk.livejournal.com]

1: The Great Gatsby
4: The Princess Bride

That's all I know!

[oceantheorem.livejournal.com]

Excellent work!

[mediathrall.livejournal.com]

#3 Ender's Game.
and
#7 Daughter of the Forest.

[oceantheorem.livejournal.com]

Yep.

[mediathrall.livejournal.com]

It's really too bad that I didn't read
"It was a strange looking vine."
in there anywhere.

[oceantheorem.livejournal.com]

It's a good book... but it's not one of my favorites.

[kaminoshi.livejournal.com]

5 is Pern, Anne McCaffrey, but I couldn't tell you for the life of me which one... Moreta? Maybe? haven't read those for a very very long time...

[oceantheorem.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is Moreta. Yay!

[lumivel.livejournal.com]

6. Cannon School occupied an entire block of New Orleans, its sprawl of manicured lawns and neocolonial brick buildings dividing the neighborhood in half.

Is it A Density of Soul by Christopher Rice? I had to read it for an AP English Class, I can't say I enjoyed it. I'd make a joke about homophobia, but it'd be in poor taste I think.

[oceantheorem.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is.
You had to read it for a class? That definitely ruins books. Personally, I thought this book was amazing... Hmm.

Anyway, care to introduce yourself?
(Livejournal really isn't all that bad.)

[lumivel.livejournal.com]

My name is Sid, I'm Clark's friend. I go to Full Sail with him.

[oceantheorem.livejournal.com]

Okay. Hi. I'm Kara.

Ooh, ooh

[owlishness.livejournal.com]

2. Magic's Pawn. That or one of the other ones, but I think Radevel is only in the first one. You've read this? I love this book. It's an amazing book, despite not having any of the qualities that you could write an essay about, really. Or maybe I just never tried to write an essay about it. Makes it all the more wonderful.

10. Kushiel's Dart. Go trilogies! And I love you forever for recommending those books to me. You rock.

Re: Ooh, ooh

[oceantheorem.livejournal.com]

Okay, HOW MANY TIMES have we had the conversation about the Mercedes Lackey books? We talked about them in AP Bio, I know that. YES, I love those books... *laugh* I swear, we've had this conversation like six times.

And are you sure I introduced YOU to Kushiel's Dart? Or did you introduce it to ME? I don't remember....

But I knew you would guess those two. :-P

Re: Ooh, ooh

[oceantheorem.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and totally Go Trilogies! And you rock too! :-D

Re: Ooh, ooh

[owlishness.livejournal.com]

No, you definitely introduced me to that series. And I thought you'd read the other ones, but not Magic's Pawn? Or maybe that was the Winds of Fate series...whatever. I know we've had this conversation a gazillion times, but at least this time it's documented.

[owlishness.livejournal.com]

Ha, and now I know #9, even though I had to cheat and Google it. But I knew I'd read that somewhere.

[oceantheorem.livejournal.com]

Well, are you going to share the answer? I doubt anyone else will recognize it without googling it.

If you like fantasy...

[tryptonique.livejournal.com]

If you like fantasy, you should check out Terry Goodkind's "Sword of Truth" series. It is loved by almost every intellectual geek that I know that is also into fantasy.

The first book is called "Wizard's First Rule." It is sweet.

Stay black!

-Evan

Re: If you like fantasy...

[oceantheorem.livejournal.com]

If you scroll up a bit, you'll see a comment by mediathrall bemoaning the fact that "It was a strange-looking vine" didn't appear anywhere on my list... And my reply. That's the first sentence to Wizard's First Rule. I've read the first three books and enjoyed them... but they're not my favorite. :-P

I call this icon, by the way, "Kahlan."

Re: If you like fantasy...

[tryptonique.livejournal.com]

Werd. I didn't see that at all. I feel like such a retard.
*blushes.*

*hides under a rock.*

-Evan

I liked the bondage scenes with the Mord-Sith. Nothing like getting a phallus rammed into your ear to start out your day, right Kara. *winks at you knowingly.*

Re: If you like fantasy...

[oceantheorem.livejournal.com]

I've always had the sneaking suspicion that I would look damn hot in red leather.

I dunno about the whole inflicting pain thing, though... I mean, there's light bondage and then there's actually hurting someone... But maybe if I got to hurt people I didn't like... That could work.

:-D

Re: If you like fantasy...

[tryptonique.livejournal.com]

1) I have a sneaking suspicion you are right. Btw...I just spent 2 weeks with Celi (the girlfriend of 2 years) over @ Smith during Spring Break. It was rad.I'm more of a soft silk person though (I don't mean that I wear the soft silk, but rather that I get someone ELSE to wear it...just making it clear so that way I wasn't the butt of teasing and jibes..ha ha).
I imagine leather would get sticky if you got sweaty and would be rather confining. I think buckles and straps are a pain in the ass. Though softness makes me smile because it is super feminine (feminine = sexy in women...which is sort of a tautologous argument, but I'm willing to make it).

2) Lol. The inflicting pain thing is sort of creepy and disturbing to me. I hope you know that I'm 1000000% joking with that. I think you have to wonder about someone's sense of life if they hold pain to be a sexual value (sexual values being those that most deeply reflect who we are as people). Most people that are down with the freaky shite (scatology, S&M, etc) have either been abused or have had some trauma in their life that they are coping with- at least from what I have read on the subject.