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esrafil asked me these questions; if you would like to play, leave a comment and I'll ask you five random questions.
1. What is the worst book you've read that you just couldn't put down?
The worst book I've read recently was Vurt by Jeff Noon, another failure in my ongoing attempt to find a cyberpunk book I don't hate (recommendations always welcome! And in case you're curious, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and Raphael Carter's The Fortunate Fall are the books in the genre that I've liked the most). Vurt is terrible beyond the telling of it, and the only reason why I read the whole thing was I have this weird stubbornness about finishing books I start. The main characters are a gang of boring, self-centered, immature drug addicts (drugs in the world are taken via feathers that you stick in your mouth; why or how the hell this works is never explained); sex not only occurs between humans, dogs and machines, but somehow results in hybrid children (again, how dogs and humans could interbreed is never explained); and, to top it all off, the main romantic relationship is brother/sister incest, complete with sex scenes and flash-backs to their abusive childhood. I cannot anti-recommend this book enough.
2. What fandom do you feel most involved with overall?
Well, clearly at the moment it's Swordspoint. But my favorite of all time, even if I haven't written any stories lately, is Yami no Matsuei; there's so much to do with it, and I love the characters so.
3. If you were going to be stuck in one outfit for the rest of the year, what would you pick to wear?
Oh, that's so hard to pick. What I'd want to wear in July isn't what I'd want to wear in February. But if we pretend that weather wouldn't be a problem (or, you know, people wondering why I'm wearing the same thing day after day), I'd say my pair of dark blue jeans with the slight flare and a slit on the outside from the bottom to about five inches up, with my sleeveless top, made of of some utterly gauzy and almost transparent material, which, depending on what angle you look at it is either an abstract pattern of cream, chocolate brown, dull bronze, and faded maroon, or a sketch of leaves and branches, which falls down past my hips and ends in an asymmetrical, daggered cut. Man, it's hard to describe clothes, but I don't have any photos.
I am so ready for warm weather to come back. I'm already sick of all my winter clothes, and we've still got months left where I'll have to wear them.
4. Would you rather go to a club or to a concert?
They're very different experiences. It would depend a lot on what mood I'm in, or what band we're talking about, for the concert. But in general, probably a club. It's more interactive (unless we're talking about, say, a Flogging Molly concert with a mosh pit), and I like that.
5. Where would you most like to go on vacation (can be real or fictional)?
I'd love to see Venice sometime (I was just talking to someone about this, though I have actually had a social life for the past few weeks [!!], so I forget who specifically it was), because really, it's Venice. You can't die before you see it. I've also always wanted to go to New Orleans, which would be much easier.
And, of course, there are many people who I need to go visit, though more for the sake of them than where they live.
esrafil asked me these questions; if you would like to play, leave a comment and I'll ask you five random questions.1. What is the worst book you've read that you just couldn't put down?
The worst book I've read recently was Vurt by Jeff Noon, another failure in my ongoing attempt to find a cyberpunk book I don't hate (recommendations always welcome! And in case you're curious, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and Raphael Carter's The Fortunate Fall are the books in the genre that I've liked the most). Vurt is terrible beyond the telling of it, and the only reason why I read the whole thing was I have this weird stubbornness about finishing books I start. The main characters are a gang of boring, self-centered, immature drug addicts (drugs in the world are taken via feathers that you stick in your mouth; why or how the hell this works is never explained); sex not only occurs between humans, dogs and machines, but somehow results in hybrid children (again, how dogs and humans could interbreed is never explained); and, to top it all off, the main romantic relationship is brother/sister incest, complete with sex scenes and flash-backs to their abusive childhood. I cannot anti-recommend this book enough.
2. What fandom do you feel most involved with overall?
Well, clearly at the moment it's Swordspoint. But my favorite of all time, even if I haven't written any stories lately, is Yami no Matsuei; there's so much to do with it, and I love the characters so.
3. If you were going to be stuck in one outfit for the rest of the year, what would you pick to wear?
Oh, that's so hard to pick. What I'd want to wear in July isn't what I'd want to wear in February. But if we pretend that weather wouldn't be a problem (or, you know, people wondering why I'm wearing the same thing day after day), I'd say my pair of dark blue jeans with the slight flare and a slit on the outside from the bottom to about five inches up, with my sleeveless top, made of of some utterly gauzy and almost transparent material, which, depending on what angle you look at it is either an abstract pattern of cream, chocolate brown, dull bronze, and faded maroon, or a sketch of leaves and branches, which falls down past my hips and ends in an asymmetrical, daggered cut. Man, it's hard to describe clothes, but I don't have any photos.
I am so ready for warm weather to come back. I'm already sick of all my winter clothes, and we've still got months left where I'll have to wear them.
4. Would you rather go to a club or to a concert?
They're very different experiences. It would depend a lot on what mood I'm in, or what band we're talking about, for the concert. But in general, probably a club. It's more interactive (unless we're talking about, say, a Flogging Molly concert with a mosh pit), and I like that.
5. Where would you most like to go on vacation (can be real or fictional)?
I'd love to see Venice sometime (I was just talking to someone about this, though I have actually had a social life for the past few weeks [!!], so I forget who specifically it was), because really, it's Venice. You can't die before you see it. I've also always wanted to go to New Orleans, which would be much easier.
And, of course, there are many people who I need to go visit, though more for the sake of them than where they live.
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Date: 2007-02-10 03:01 am (UTC)2. What's your favorite place?
3. I don't know if you've read Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, but everyone in that world has their soul embodied in an animal that follows them around all the time. Everyone's animal is different, to represent certain aspects of their personality (so someone who's very clever and manipulative has a monkey, for example). What animal would you have?
4. What's the worst thing you've ever had to read for school?
5. What do you want to see or do the most, when you go to Japan?