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[shadowkat]

Am in a mood...combination of training and commute to training, less said, the better.

1.Day 23 – A book you wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t

How about half my bookshelves? I'm a moody reader. I can only read whatever fits my mood.
Top of the list :

* The Brother's Karamazov
* Les Miserables
* Cloud Atlas
* Don Quixote

And various others...including Foundation by Issac Asimov.

Currently reading of all things, Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts - which is about a female fire jumper (forest fire fighter) and a rookie on her jump team. There's a mystery about a vandal and arsonist, but mainly it's about fire jumping. Which I find interesting, plus banter, a tough woman who is 5'10, and an adult, along with a beta male who loves strong women with attitude. Very subversive. By the way? Nora Roberts and JD Robb are the same person.

Day 24 – A book that you wish more people have read
Day 25 – A character who you can relate to the most
Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something
Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending
Day 28 – Favorite title
Day 29 – A book everyone hated but you liked
Day 30 – Your favorite book of all time


3. Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale

Eh...there's been a few:

* St. Elsewhere's ending where the entire series was an Autistic boy's fantasy.
* Newhart Show - where it turns out to be a dream that Bob Newhart had in the Bob Newhart Show.
* Quantum Leap - where he never returns home and ends up God knows where
* Lost - that they all left the island, then reunited in purgatory, and finally back on the island, which is a weird half-way station for the damned on the way to purgatory, after purgatory, they get to move on.
* BSG - they end up on a planet with a nicely mowed meadow and mountains, with no people, yet well-manicured and landscaped.

Let's face it tv writers suck at endings, sort of goes against the whole let's give the network unlimited episodes as long as we can.


Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death.

Comments

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Too late on Les Miz, seen all versions of that.

There's a movie version of Brothers Karamozov?

And too late on Don Quixote...I think I've seen the musical The Impossible Dream, can't remember.

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

There is at least one film version of BK, an awful movie, starring a very young William Shatner of all people and Richard (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) Baseheart.

Like you, most people have some familiarity with "Man of La Mancha." It's kind of the Cliff Notes for the Classics Illustrated Comic version of Don Quixote. I assure you, Cervantes does not make an appearance in the book. Musical - good. Don Quixote - better.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Oh, didn't read well! I thought you were looking at reading the books. There is a movie of The Brothers Karamazov (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051435/), but don't think I saw it.

ETA: Oh, duh, you mean about viewing before reading. I meant that mainly for Cloud Atlas.


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