book meme!

[maderr]

1. One book that changed your life:
Grimm’s Fairytales

2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
Frankenstein. I’ve lost count

3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
A blank notebook.

4. One book that made you laugh:
Good Omens by Neil Gaimen and Terry Pratchet. Fucking cracked me up.

5. One book that made you cry:
A short story actually – The Last Rung On the Ladder by Stephen King

6. One book that you wish had been written:
Umm...I wish someone would do something different with the whole elements thing. It's always fire this, wind that, water this, and no one ever does anything *different*. Not really. I'd love to see a mass epic that did something cool with elements. And was slashy. Or I'd like to find a kickass biography for Tokugawa Yoshinobu. Doing my paper on him, I could never find a good one (in English, at any rate, and my nihongo fsking sucks).

7. One book that you wish had never been written:
Another short story – Apt Pupil by Stephen King *shudders*

8. One book you’re currently reading:
When Darkness Falls by Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory

9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:
The Masque of the Black Tulip. Can’t afford it yet.

10. Now tag eight people:
Tag you’re it.

Comments

[anruik]

.... *looks at brain* .... *holds out two males* Would you like these two, who claim they've got the powers of the elements of metal and wood? The latter possibly being named Dick and thankfully not Woody?

[thealisonbailey.livejournal.com]

I picked up Good Omens for my trip to Austria back in the spring since you talked about it so much. I liked it and thought it was hilarious (laughed out loud a few times), but I need to go back and reread it, since there were some parts that didn't seem too clear --- might have been my reading it before bed each night and then finishing it up in the wee hours of the morning on the flight home.

BTW, do you mean different elements or doing something different with the existing elements?

[scribewraith.livejournal.com]

Have you tried Tanya Huff's quarter series for the element stuff. I mean on one hand it's still the traditional western elemental system but her stories are a little out of the ordinary fantasy style and slashy (the first is f/f + f/m). They actually remind me a little of your style too - she's one of my favourite authors ;)