Meme: 12 of your favorite authors and titles
Gacked from www.wheelchairjunkie.com.
Not necessarily my favorites of all time (I'm certain there's something/someone glaringly obvious that I'm missing), but a good cross-section of things I love and imagine I always will love. Sorry for 'cheating' and listing multiple things in some groups:
Meme: 12 of your favorite authors and titles
- Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat, Interview with the Vampire, Tale of the Body Thief, Queen of the Damned, Merrick, Blood Canticle -- I enjoyed the other VC books, but those are my favorites) [I identify so strongly with Louis, and wish I could find a Lestat of my own - not for the Dark Gift, but to know that I belonged to someone utterly - and that they wanted me. IWTV is my favorite movie as well.]
- J.R.R. Tolkien (LotR trilogy, and Silmarillion) [The Elves fascinate me. I am not an elf, but I would aspire to be as in tune with the world around me, and my fellow living things. Also, they're beautiful and graceful, and I can be that shallow.]
- Isaac Asimov (all short-story collections, and the Robots series - Caves of Steel, Naked Sun, Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire, Robots and Earth, his hundreds of non-fiction books, editing on sci-fi anthologies) [I wanted to grow up to be R. Daneel, when I was nine.]
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes series) [I had several of these memorized at the age of eleven, and still love the stories dearly. I identified very strongly with Mr. Holmes.]
- Margaret Wander Bonanno (Dwellers in the Crucible - the 25th PocketBooks Star Trek novel. Terrible re: continuity/Star Trek, but a wonderful story of friendship. Also loved several other Original Trek novels - the Phoenix books by Marshak and Culbreath, Entropy Effect by Vonda McIntyre, anything by Diane Duane...list goes on.) [DitC has the best-realized exploration of the development of a relationship, and what it truly means to love someone more than yourself, that I have ever seen explored in fiction.]
- (Various authors) : Media fanzines (fan-fiction about television characters, movie characters, book characters, sometimes even real people - prefer h/c and '/', but will read anything that explores characterizations, in many, many universes) [I read VampChron, Original Trek, Wiseguy, X-Files, Man from U.N.C.L.E., Professionals, Starsky&Hutch, Beauty and the Beast, Silk Stalkings, Highlander, Sentinel, list goes on. I don't care what the rating is, I just am fascinated by the way people interact with each other, and with the idea of someone being someone else's 'primary focus'.]
- Bill Holbrook (Kevin and Kell series - check out the strip at kevinandkell.com - good, clean, family entertainment speaking out for computernerds and against all forms of predjudice) [A webcomic that's also been collected in book form. Some of the best cultural commentary going. If you do go to the website, start at the beginning; the story is linear.]
- Harlan Ellison (*non*-fiction essay books) [I loved his essays on television and the world around him, especially in my early to mid teens. His fiction is a bit too dark for me, but I love his introductions to it.]
- George Carlin (all) [Sometimes he goes for the cheap shock, but largely he does scathing social commentary and wonderful explorations of language and the effect it has on the world around us.]
- Scott Adams (Dilbert books, in the right mood) [I've worked tech support, and I've had a PHB. Sometimes, I need the comic therapy, even when it's at times mean-spirited.]
- Alison Bechdel (DtWOF, whole series) [I care about all the characters, and what happens to them. I also love the politics, as she's got the guts to say things I couldn't, but that someone needs to - IMnsHO.]
- Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy) [Again, a story about love. Won two Tony's. Critics commented how fascinating it was that the play that most embodied 'Traditional Family Values' of a stable family unit and the love within it, was a play with primarily gay characters. The movie wasn't bad either.]
- Arthur C. Clarke (short story collections) [Escapist fun with bad-pun endings, or with 'gotcha's. And some of the stories are one page long, which suited my youthful attention span back in the day. Less commitment.]
Not necessarily my favorites of all time (I'm certain there's something/someone glaringly obvious that I'm missing), but a good cross-section of things I love and imagine I always will love. Sorry for 'cheating' and listing multiple things in some groups:
Meme: 12 of your favorite authors and titles
- Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat, Interview with the Vampire, Tale of the Body Thief, Queen of the Damned, Merrick, Blood Canticle -- I enjoyed the other VC books, but those are my favorites) [I identify so strongly with Louis, and wish I could find a Lestat of my own - not for the Dark Gift, but to know that I belonged to someone utterly - and that they wanted me. IWTV is my favorite movie as well.]
- J.R.R. Tolkien (LotR trilogy, and Silmarillion) [The Elves fascinate me. I am not an elf, but I would aspire to be as in tune with the world around me, and my fellow living things. Also, they're beautiful and graceful, and I can be that shallow.]
- Isaac Asimov (all short-story collections, and the Robots series - Caves of Steel, Naked Sun, Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire, Robots and Earth, his hundreds of non-fiction books, editing on sci-fi anthologies) [I wanted to grow up to be R. Daneel, when I was nine.]
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes series) [I had several of these memorized at the age of eleven, and still love the stories dearly. I identified very strongly with Mr. Holmes.]
- Margaret Wander Bonanno (Dwellers in the Crucible - the 25th PocketBooks Star Trek novel. Terrible re: continuity/Star Trek, but a wonderful story of friendship. Also loved several other Original Trek novels - the Phoenix books by Marshak and Culbreath, Entropy Effect by Vonda McIntyre, anything by Diane Duane...list goes on.) [DitC has the best-realized exploration of the development of a relationship, and what it truly means to love someone more than yourself, that I have ever seen explored in fiction.]
- (Various authors) : Media fanzines (fan-fiction about television characters, movie characters, book characters, sometimes even real people - prefer h/c and '/', but will read anything that explores characterizations, in many, many universes) [I read VampChron, Original Trek, Wiseguy, X-Files, Man from U.N.C.L.E., Professionals, Starsky&Hutch, Beauty and the Beast, Silk Stalkings, Highlander, Sentinel, list goes on. I don't care what the rating is, I just am fascinated by the way people interact with each other, and with the idea of someone being someone else's 'primary focus'.]
- Bill Holbrook (Kevin and Kell series - check out the strip at kevinandkell.com - good, clean, family entertainment speaking out for computernerds and against all forms of predjudice) [A webcomic that's also been collected in book form. Some of the best cultural commentary going. If you do go to the website, start at the beginning; the story is linear.]
- Harlan Ellison (*non*-fiction essay books) [I loved his essays on television and the world around him, especially in my early to mid teens. His fiction is a bit too dark for me, but I love his introductions to it.]
- George Carlin (all) [Sometimes he goes for the cheap shock, but largely he does scathing social commentary and wonderful explorations of language and the effect it has on the world around us.]
- Scott Adams (Dilbert books, in the right mood) [I've worked tech support, and I've had a PHB. Sometimes, I need the comic therapy, even when it's at times mean-spirited.]
- Alison Bechdel (DtWOF, whole series) [I care about all the characters, and what happens to them. I also love the politics, as she's got the guts to say things I couldn't, but that someone needs to - IMnsHO.]
- Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy) [Again, a story about love. Won two Tony's. Critics commented how fascinating it was that the play that most embodied 'Traditional Family Values' of a stable family unit and the love within it, was a play with primarily gay characters. The movie wasn't bad either.]
- Arthur C. Clarke (short story collections) [Escapist fun with bad-pun endings, or with 'gotcha's. And some of the stories are one page long, which suited my youthful attention span back in the day. Less commitment.]