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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

Re: My two cents

[owenthurman.livejournal.com]

I really didn't know about Dostoevsky and comedy. That's interesting, considering where he ended up.

I speak only two languages fluently and they're pretty closely related, but there's no way I could ever translate the jokes I know in English to Spanish. It's not just the words that don't match but the cultural context that makes things funny instead of offensive is different. I love a particular joke about Barack Obama that's innocent in Spanish but makes me feel like a horrible racist in English. There's a few hilarious but meaningful pages in El Laberinto De La Soledad where Paz discourses on the uses of the obscene word 'ch_ngar' that would be near impossible to translate literally to any other language, much less to translate with humor intact.

For instance, there's an extended joke about Polish people trying to speak Russian in BK that the characters find entertaining but there's no way for me as a non-Russian non-Polish speaker to understand it. I think it must be uproariously hilarious but I will never get it.

Re: My two cents

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

I can tell you that part of the joke is that Dostoevsky is a Polish family name, and he was not above making fun of his Polish roots.