Friday Five
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jakebeOh yes, it's Friday.
What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)?
Hmm. This is hard. I rather like modern fantasy, with comic books coming in a close second. i don't read either nearly enough, though.
What is your favorite novel?
I think I have three. Farenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, and The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle. (Shut up, Foxen.) Bradbury does for sci-fi what Beagle does for fantasy, I think; they both have this great vision of wonder that underlines everything they do.
What is your favorite poem? (Share it!)
I'm such a wannabe. :) I don't really have a favorite, favorite poem, though there are several that I really like. There's one by Charles Oldfield called "The Man Who Climbed the Tower," about a fellow who climbed a water tower on a bar-dare one day, and how the police were called, and suicide patrol and whatnot...and he describes the entire scenario in this non-chalant, but life-changing way. After he takes his fill, he climbs down. It makes breaking free of normal conventions sound so *easy*.
I like "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, but who doesn't? And "For Colored Girls Who've Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf" by someone I forgot the name to is excellent as well. I like black women poets a lot, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, that stock.
What is the one thing you've always wanted to read, or wish you had more time to read?
Philosophy books. The Bible (again). Dictionaries! The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Dune. A forlorn Jack Kerouac book looking at me from my bookshelf. The rest of Monkey. The Sandman series. The Dreaming series. Ultimate X-Men. The more recent Green Arrow series, after Kevin Smith stepped down. Oh, the list goes on.
What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)?
Hmm. This is hard. I rather like modern fantasy, with comic books coming in a close second. i don't read either nearly enough, though.
What is your favorite novel?
I think I have three. Farenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, and The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle. (Shut up, Foxen.) Bradbury does for sci-fi what Beagle does for fantasy, I think; they both have this great vision of wonder that underlines everything they do.
What is your favorite poem? (Share it!)
I'm such a wannabe. :) I don't really have a favorite, favorite poem, though there are several that I really like. There's one by Charles Oldfield called "The Man Who Climbed the Tower," about a fellow who climbed a water tower on a bar-dare one day, and how the police were called, and suicide patrol and whatnot...and he describes the entire scenario in this non-chalant, but life-changing way. After he takes his fill, he climbs down. It makes breaking free of normal conventions sound so *easy*.
I like "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, but who doesn't? And "For Colored Girls Who've Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf" by someone I forgot the name to is excellent as well. I like black women poets a lot, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, that stock.
What is the one thing you've always wanted to read, or wish you had more time to read?
Philosophy books. The Bible (again). Dictionaries! The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Dune. A forlorn Jack Kerouac book looking at me from my bookshelf. The rest of Monkey. The Sandman series. The Dreaming series. Ultimate X-Men. The more recent Green Arrow series, after Kevin Smith stepped down. Oh, the list goes on.
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Oh yes, it's Friday.
<b>What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)?</b>
Hmm. This is hard. I rather like modern fantasy, with comic books coming in a close second. i don't read either nearly enough, though.
<b>What is your favorite novel?</b>
I think I have three. <i>Farenheit 451</i> and <i>The Martian Chronicles</i> by Ray Bradbury, and <i>The Last Unicorn</i> by Peter Beagle. (Shut up, Foxen.) Bradbury does for sci-fi what Beagle does for fantasy, I think; they both have this great vision of wonder that underlines everything they do.
<b>What is your favorite poem? (Share it!)</b>
I'm such a wannabe. :) I don't really have a favorite, favorite poem, though there are several that I really like. There's one by Charles Oldfield called "The Man Who Climbed the Tower," about a fellow who climbed a water tower on a bar-dare one day, and how the police were called, and suicide patrol and whatnot...and he describes the entire scenario in this non-chalant, but life-changing way. After he takes his fill, he climbs down. It makes breaking free of normal conventions sound so *easy*.
I like "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, but who doesn't? And "For Colored Girls Who've Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf" by someone I forgot the name to is excellent as well. I like black women poets a lot, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, that stock.
<b>What is the one thing you've always wanted to read, or wish you had more time to read?</b>
Philosophy books. The Bible (again). Dictionaries! The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Dune. A forlorn Jack Kerouac book looking at me from my bookshelf. The rest of <i>Monkey</i>. <i>The Sandman</i> series. <i>The Dreaming</i> series. <i>Ultimate X-Men</i>. The more recent <i>Green Arrow</i> series, after Kevin Smith stepped down. Oh, the list goes on. <:)
<b>What are you currently reading?</b>
<i>Neverwhere</i> by Neil Gaiman, and <i>The Innkeeper's Song</i> by Peter Beagle, and <i>Remnants #5</i> by K.A. Applegate.
<b>What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)?</b>
Hmm. This is hard. I rather like modern fantasy, with comic books coming in a close second. i don't read either nearly enough, though.
<b>What is your favorite novel?</b>
I think I have three. <i>Farenheit 451</i> and <i>The Martian Chronicles</i> by Ray Bradbury, and <i>The Last Unicorn</i> by Peter Beagle. (Shut up, Foxen.) Bradbury does for sci-fi what Beagle does for fantasy, I think; they both have this great vision of wonder that underlines everything they do.
<b>What is your favorite poem? (Share it!)</b>
I'm such a wannabe. :) I don't really have a favorite, favorite poem, though there are several that I really like. There's one by Charles Oldfield called "The Man Who Climbed the Tower," about a fellow who climbed a water tower on a bar-dare one day, and how the police were called, and suicide patrol and whatnot...and he describes the entire scenario in this non-chalant, but life-changing way. After he takes his fill, he climbs down. It makes breaking free of normal conventions sound so *easy*.
I like "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, but who doesn't? And "For Colored Girls Who've Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf" by someone I forgot the name to is excellent as well. I like black women poets a lot, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, that stock.
<b>What is the one thing you've always wanted to read, or wish you had more time to read?</b>
Philosophy books. The Bible (again). Dictionaries! The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Dune. A forlorn Jack Kerouac book looking at me from my bookshelf. The rest of <i>Monkey</i>. <i>The Sandman</i> series. <i>The Dreaming</i> series. <i>Ultimate X-Men</i>. The more recent <i>Green Arrow</i> series, after Kevin Smith stepped down. Oh, the list goes on. <:)
<b>What are you currently reading?</b>
<i>Neverwhere</i> by Neil Gaiman, and <i>The Innkeeper's Song</i> by Peter Beagle, and <i>Remnants #5</i> by K.A. Applegate.
