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The following is a list of Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award winning novels (not including retro-Hugos)
Bold the ones you’ve finished
Italicise the ones you’ve started but not finished
Underline the ones were you’ve seen the film/tv show
( Long list.... )
mellowVia pesky33.
The Music Intelligence Quiz
Your final score was 132/180
Mix-Tape Master (109-144 points)
You are a music evangelist: the person in your network of friends who always has the coolest new song, the one whose iPod gets picked to DJ every party. You understand the art of the segue, how the key to the best mix-tape isn’t just the songs you pick, but how they interlock with each other. You also know who the up-and-coming acts are and are quick to recognise where their influences lie and whether they will make it big. You work hard at the pursuit of this knowledge, scouring music blogs, magazines and record stores. Most importantly, you are generous with your passion – and your friends should be very, very grateful. Still, it’s always good to get new inspiration for your latest mix
Or… I’m just good at trivia.
mellow85% Dennis Kucinich
82% Chris Dodd
82% Barack Obama
81% Mike Gravel
80% Joe Biden
79% Hillary Clinton
79% Bill Richardson
78% John Edwards
38% Rudy Giuliani
29% John McCain
25% Ron Paul
25% Mitt Romney
21% Mike Huckabee
16% Tom Tancredo
11% Fred Thompson
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
Your Score: The Cat
You scored 67% domestic, 21% gregarious, 25% trickster, and 76% intellect!
( Waffle )
The Animal Archetype Test written by crumpetsfortea
coldVia miss_newham
My band is called Administrative Template and our album is List of QI episodes.
confusedYour Punk Band Name Is…
The Drunk Dinosaur
Actually, that’s a rubbish name for a punk band but I like it anyway.
Via just about everyone. The 106 books most often tagged as unread on LibraryThing. Bold the ones you’ve read. Add an asterisk to the ones you’ve read more than once. Italicise the ones you’ve started but not finished. Strikethrough the ones you hated. Underline the ones on your “to read” list.
( The list... )
Conclusions? I’m way behind on my Neal Stephenson reading, and I haven’t read many ‘classics’ but nor have a lot of other people.
okayI was tagged by Jack on the grounds that I’ve “not done a meme for a while”.
According to my LibrayThing profile, 858. I know I have at least one more to add to that list and I’d also need to subtract the 27 tagged as !borrowed or !sold. So 832. Minimum, as there may be more hiding somewhere that I haven’t added yet.
A couple of out of print role playing games from eBay. Last ‘real’ book would appear to be Clarissa Oakes by Patrick O’Brian which I found in a bookshop in Amsterdam and made Lettice buy because I’d only just bought something else there and the shop assistant was a bit on the scary side.
I finished re-reading Human Nature this morning. I’ve been wanting to refresh my memory since the TV version came out. The book is bloodier and does a better job of creating the historical context. However it does have a number of elements that are really superfluous and which the TV version correctly ignored.
In reverse chronological order in my life:
I bought this whilst on holiday in Tennessee visiting gleet and littlebun so it reminds me of a great time as well as being a great book. Fortey takes a look at the history of life on Earth from the moment if started to the dawn of human history. Richard Dawkins did the same trip backwards in The Ancestor’s Tale but for me Fortey’s book is more engaging.
Very, very geeky. But as well as being one of the best Treknical fandom works ever it’s also the first book I bought online.
I could have listed several works of fantasy or science fiction that I read during my adolesence - The Lord of the Rings, Dune, the Pern novels and The Colour of Magic prime amongst them, but this collection of low fantasy stories set in a seedy city at the arse end of an empire is the one that stuck in my mind the most.
I was the pefect age for this when it was first published. And from this book sprung my interest in RPGs and wargames. It has a lot to answer for.
A childhood treat - a book with me and my family and my friends in it.
gleetpink_weaselVia juggzy
Your Score: Nemesis
33% Extroversion, 100% Intuition, 55% Emotiveness, 42% Perceptiveness
You are a normally quiet person with very strong convictions and a marked activist streak. You have a clearly defined sense of right and wrong, and you like seeing people punished for their transgressions. You are Nemesis, goddess of punishment. You are a champion for the defenseless, you love poetic justice and, if karmic retribution doesn’t have its say, then you’ll have yours. You are astute, rarely fooled, and idealistic.
Your defining characteristic is your internal and inflexible system of morals. Because of your highly intuitive nature, you possess the theoretical nature required to define those morals, but you sometimes lack the ability to verbalize and expound on them, especially on the more nuanced parts of your worldview. Regardless, you have strong instincts which often prove to be correct, and rather than preaching, you act on them. You don’t compromise — ever.
You can sometimes be a person of great internal stress. You don’t have double standards, and so you expect the same of yourself as you expect of others. You might find, sometimes, that you have just as hard of a time in living up to those expectations as the people around you. As a result, you are rarely at peace with yourself, but you’re also likely to think of this in a positive light — you’re always forcing yourself to improve, and you avoid making mistakes.
You tend to be a private person, and don’t like to talk much about those staunch morals of yours until, that is, they become violated. Once that happens, everyone is going to know exactly where you stand. You have a distaste of nihilism and intellectual relativism that will make you naturally compatible with scientists and certain kinds of philosophers, even if they don’t share your activist streak.
Famous People like you: Goethe, Voltaire, Susan B. Anthony, Robert Burns
Similar Personality Types: Prometheus, The Oracle, Hermes, Orpheus
Avoid: Icarus, Dionysus, Agamemnon, Atlas
You may or may not be able to get along with an Odysseus — it will depend on his/her upbringing.Link: The Greek Mythology Personality Test written by Aleph_Nine
Right, not too bad this time with some fairly accurate insights. But this is more how I’d like to be than how I am actually am.
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