Subject: Yep!
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Posted on: 2009-04-17 12:25:00 UTC
Read them! They're very interesting, though you really do need to have read the Bel/Mal to understand a lot of the stuff.
I think the formulaic layout of those series is part of their appeal - it's a story pattern that's well-known, popular and timeless. :D
Shamefully, I stole this from an episode of the Office. Scenario: You're trapped on a desert island and stranded there for the rest of your life. Your only luggage is three books and five movies. What would those books and movies be?
My books are Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde, Farenheit 451, Little Women, and I'll switch one of the movies for another book if you don't mid; probably Candy Girl by Diablo Cody (Something every mature-aka, probably sixteen and up--girl (and guy) should read, about the world of strippers. She worte the script for Juno, and she spent a year as a stripper, it's her memoir and so utterly fantastic.)
Movies would be either Singin' in the Rain or Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (that's the problem with musical movies from the fifties; all the same, but still so gorgeous), Ratatouille (fooood), Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, and all of House, MD. Even though it's not a movie.
You need something to watch said five movies on, unless desert islands have DVD players, and my laptop is actually what I'd want to bring over all of these... but despite that:
Books:
LOTR (and the Hobbit and the Silmarillion stuck to it. >> )
A survival manual
Something very big and thick with soft pages
Films (as picked by the geek, not the film studies student):
Lord of the Rings extended editions
Spirited Away
Something Disney, possibly Treasure Planet and probably Beauty and the Beast.
Like I said, it's a hypothetical question. It doesn't have to be realistic.
>> Might learn my lesson one day.
What I meant to say was:
I know, but I still find it a bit daft. Doesn't stop me from playing along though.
Not realistic? I brought a tall ship.
Hmmmm, well, books...
One book about cooking in difficult conditions,
One book about how to identify poisonous stuff you don't want to eat/touch/get stung by on a desert island (and how to treat said poison without the aid of synthetic antitoxins),
And probably a collected edition of all Tolkeins work (Including Mr Bliss, which is still one of the funniest childrens books ever).
Movies, probably Ameile, Spirited Away, Bugsey Malone, Sound of Music and Casablanca.
Alternatively a book about how to make a boat and sail around the world in it would be good!
This is rather like the premise of a popular BBC Radio 4 show, except it is three books plus the complete works of Shakespere and the Bible and five pieces of music.
Why build a boat? I already have brought a tall ship.
I know lots of chantys, can I join the crew? ;-)
The more the merrier. Tall ship is here :
http://www.lehmkuhl.no/en/topp/home/
I brought a tall ship. With ALL my books and DVDs. You can read and watch all you want.
I actually like manual labor, if that's anything.
You can join. Bring what you want, everything is free. Bleepka over there.
You like manual labor ? Like scrapping the deck for example ? :D
You assume that there's something to watch the movies on, I presume...
Okay. Books: LOTR (yes, I count that as one, because its author did), Polgara the Sorceress and Belgarath the Sorcerer, both from David Eddings' Belgariad/Malloreon series.
Movies: LOTR again, Mamma Mia, Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2, 3.
Never got around to read Polgara the Sorceress and Belgarath the Sorcerer, but I did read The Belgariad and The Malloreon. Somewhat formulaic, but really excellent.
But my favorite fantasy series ever has to be George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. Dunno if it counts as one book though.
Read them! They're very interesting, though you really do need to have read the Bel/Mal to understand a lot of the stuff.
I think the formulaic layout of those series is part of their appeal - it's a story pattern that's well-known, popular and timeless. :D
It's a hypothetical question. No one said it had to be realistic.