Post by Anya Nikolaievna on Sept 13, 2008 14:45:04 GMT -5
While discussing literature with witcher and some others just a few minutes ago, witcher suggested that we start a Slayalive Book Club! So I thought that was a great idea and volunteered to post about it!
So, let's get started with introductions!
Forum Name: AnyaNikolaievna
Real Name (not necessary): Angela
Age (not necessary): 26
Gender (not necessary): Female
Nationality/Ethnicity (not necessary): American
Now to business...
Favorite Authors: Anne Rice, J. R. R. Tolkein, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Annie Proulx, Steve Berry, Robert Alexander, Lloyd Alexander, Edgar Allen Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Lewis Carroll, Robert K. Massie, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, Stephen King, J. K. Rowling, C. S. Lewis, Alexandre Dumas
Favorite Playwrights: William Shakespeare, Nikolai Gogol, Christopher Marlowe, Anton Chekov
Favorite Poets: Lewis Carroll, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pushkin, Christopher Marlowe, John Keats, John Milton, Lord Byron, Alfred Lloyd Tennyson, Emily Dickenson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, William Blake
Favorite Novels: Forrest Gump, Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter books 3-7, The Romanov Prophecy, The Kitchen Boy, Alexei and Me, The Royal Diaries Series, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Stand, Interview With The Vampire, The Vampire Armand, Cry To Heaven, Servant Of The Bones, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenyev, Crime and Punishment, A Tale of Two Cities, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, The Chronicles of Prydain, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Man In The Iron Mask, Memoirs of Monsieur D'Artagnan, El Club Dumas, It, Misery
Favorite Plays: Amadeus, Titus Andronicus (by Shakespeare), Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Henry V (Shakespeare), Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Antony & Cleopatra, Cyrano de Bergerac, Trojan Women, Antigone, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Measure For Measure
Favorite Poems: Jabberwocky, The Road Less Traveled, various sonnets by Marlowe and Shakespeare, The Raven, The Bells, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Ode To A Nightingale, Paradise Lost, The Faerie Queen, The Iliad & The Odyssey, Paul Revere's Ride, Song of Hiawatha, Casey At The Bat
Favoritre Fairy Tales, Folktales, Legends, Myths etc.: Sleeping Beauty, The Scarlet Flower (aka Beauty & The Beast), The Firebird, Vassilisa The Beautiful, Finist, The Great White Falcon, Cinderella, Snow White & Rose Red, Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs, The Frog Prince, The Princess & The Goblin, Aladdin & The Magical Lamp, Ali Baba & The Forty Thieves, King Arthur, Demeter & Persephone, Icharus, Echo & Narcissus, The Twelve Labors of Hercules, The Quest For The Golden Fleece, Little Red Riding Hood (ORIGINAL), The Three Little Pigs (ORIGINAL), Rapunzel
Favorite Short Stories: 1408, In The Deathroom, The Necklace (Maupassant), Brokeback Mountain
Favorite Nonfiction Works: Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell, My Sergei: A Love Story by Ekaterina Gordeeva, Landing It: My Life On and Off The Ice by Scott Hamilton, The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, The Final Period by Mario Lemieux, Beating The Odds (about Mario Lemieux), Super Mario (also about Mario Lemieux), Nicholas & Alexandra by Robert K. Massie, Nicholas & Alexandra: The Family Albums, Anastasia's Album, The Romanov Family Album, Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas & Alexandra
Favorite Comic Books: Batman, Superman, Spiderman, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Green Lantern, Daredevil
Favorite Graphic Novels/Manga Etc: This is a toughie cause I don't normally read these... Road To Perdition was great though so I'll say that one
Favorite Genres (Horror, Fantasy, Drama, Romance etc): I like anything with a good story to it!
Favorite Setting (Present, Not-Too-Distant Future, Distant Future, Last Few Centuries, Ancient Times, Fantasy Setting etc): Same as above
Favorite Time Period (do you like books written in the 2000s, 1900s, 1800s, etc?): Same as above
Favorite Heroes: Stu Redman, Larry Underwood, Lucius Andronicus, Hamlet, Peter Pevensie, Brutus, Marc Antony, Daredevil, Robin/Nightwing, Batman, Green Lantern, Superman, Wonder Woman, Spiderman, Professor X, Wolverine, Jubilee, Storm, Iceman, Mike Enslin, D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, Bill Denbrough, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Severus Snape, Evgeni Onegin (tragic hero I guess you could say)
Favorite Villains: Randall Flagg, King Claudius, Cassius, Lord Voldemort, Whie Witch
Preferences:
Book or Movie Version?: Usually book, but for The Wizard of Oz, definitely movie!
Play or Movie Version?: That's tough... I like them both!
Original Play or Book vs New Musical/Opera etc (example, Pygmalion or My Fair Lady, Les Miserables novel vs. Les Miserables musical, etc): Ehhh... I like them both as well, but a lot of times I will turn to the stage musicals like Phantom, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Les Miserables etc.
Comic Books or Movie Versions?: Movies, but that's just because of my own personal sight issues, it's easier to see a movie than squint and see the text in the bubbles in the comics
Graphic Novel or Movie Version?: Same as above I think
Paperback or Hardcover?: I definitely prefer hardcover
Analysis or no analysis, critique or no critique? (do you like being provided with an analysis of the work you're about to read?): I love it when they have a critique, but I read it after I read the work itself
Fiction or Nonfiction?: I like them both
Reality or Fantasy?: Hmmm I like both.
Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, or Other? (for comic books): Hmmmm I think I prefer Marvel
Do you read Forewords/Notes from the Authors when they are provided?: Absolutely!
Do you like the books they make you read in school?: Most of them I despised, but the plays were ok.
Do you like audio books?: LOVE them!
A Work You Recommend to Anyone and Everyone: Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
A Favorite Work You Don't Own Yet: Nicholas & Alexandra: The Family Albums (it's tough to find this out-of-print book for lower than $80!)
Favorite Literary Quotes: (I will post as soon as I have more time)
So You Write?: Yes!
What can I say, I am a HUGE fan of reading!
So, let's get started with introductions!
Forum Name: AnyaNikolaievna
Real Name (not necessary): Angela
Age (not necessary): 26
Gender (not necessary): Female
Nationality/Ethnicity (not necessary): American
Now to business...
Favorite Authors: Anne Rice, J. R. R. Tolkein, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Annie Proulx, Steve Berry, Robert Alexander, Lloyd Alexander, Edgar Allen Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Lewis Carroll, Robert K. Massie, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, Stephen King, J. K. Rowling, C. S. Lewis, Alexandre Dumas
Favorite Playwrights: William Shakespeare, Nikolai Gogol, Christopher Marlowe, Anton Chekov
Favorite Poets: Lewis Carroll, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pushkin, Christopher Marlowe, John Keats, John Milton, Lord Byron, Alfred Lloyd Tennyson, Emily Dickenson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, William Blake
Favorite Novels: Forrest Gump, Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter books 3-7, The Romanov Prophecy, The Kitchen Boy, Alexei and Me, The Royal Diaries Series, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Stand, Interview With The Vampire, The Vampire Armand, Cry To Heaven, Servant Of The Bones, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenyev, Crime and Punishment, A Tale of Two Cities, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, The Chronicles of Prydain, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Man In The Iron Mask, Memoirs of Monsieur D'Artagnan, El Club Dumas, It, Misery
Favorite Plays: Amadeus, Titus Andronicus (by Shakespeare), Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Henry V (Shakespeare), Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Antony & Cleopatra, Cyrano de Bergerac, Trojan Women, Antigone, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Measure For Measure
Favorite Poems: Jabberwocky, The Road Less Traveled, various sonnets by Marlowe and Shakespeare, The Raven, The Bells, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Ode To A Nightingale, Paradise Lost, The Faerie Queen, The Iliad & The Odyssey, Paul Revere's Ride, Song of Hiawatha, Casey At The Bat
Favoritre Fairy Tales, Folktales, Legends, Myths etc.: Sleeping Beauty, The Scarlet Flower (aka Beauty & The Beast), The Firebird, Vassilisa The Beautiful, Finist, The Great White Falcon, Cinderella, Snow White & Rose Red, Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs, The Frog Prince, The Princess & The Goblin, Aladdin & The Magical Lamp, Ali Baba & The Forty Thieves, King Arthur, Demeter & Persephone, Icharus, Echo & Narcissus, The Twelve Labors of Hercules, The Quest For The Golden Fleece, Little Red Riding Hood (ORIGINAL), The Three Little Pigs (ORIGINAL), Rapunzel
Favorite Short Stories: 1408, In The Deathroom, The Necklace (Maupassant), Brokeback Mountain
Favorite Nonfiction Works: Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell, My Sergei: A Love Story by Ekaterina Gordeeva, Landing It: My Life On and Off The Ice by Scott Hamilton, The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, The Final Period by Mario Lemieux, Beating The Odds (about Mario Lemieux), Super Mario (also about Mario Lemieux), Nicholas & Alexandra by Robert K. Massie, Nicholas & Alexandra: The Family Albums, Anastasia's Album, The Romanov Family Album, Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas & Alexandra
Favorite Comic Books: Batman, Superman, Spiderman, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Green Lantern, Daredevil
Favorite Graphic Novels/Manga Etc: This is a toughie cause I don't normally read these... Road To Perdition was great though so I'll say that one
Favorite Genres (Horror, Fantasy, Drama, Romance etc): I like anything with a good story to it!
Favorite Setting (Present, Not-Too-Distant Future, Distant Future, Last Few Centuries, Ancient Times, Fantasy Setting etc): Same as above
Favorite Time Period (do you like books written in the 2000s, 1900s, 1800s, etc?): Same as above
Favorite Heroes: Stu Redman, Larry Underwood, Lucius Andronicus, Hamlet, Peter Pevensie, Brutus, Marc Antony, Daredevil, Robin/Nightwing, Batman, Green Lantern, Superman, Wonder Woman, Spiderman, Professor X, Wolverine, Jubilee, Storm, Iceman, Mike Enslin, D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, Bill Denbrough, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Severus Snape, Evgeni Onegin (tragic hero I guess you could say)
Favorite Villains: Randall Flagg, King Claudius, Cassius, Lord Voldemort, Whie Witch
Preferences:
Book or Movie Version?: Usually book, but for The Wizard of Oz, definitely movie!
Play or Movie Version?: That's tough... I like them both!
Original Play or Book vs New Musical/Opera etc (example, Pygmalion or My Fair Lady, Les Miserables novel vs. Les Miserables musical, etc): Ehhh... I like them both as well, but a lot of times I will turn to the stage musicals like Phantom, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Les Miserables etc.
Comic Books or Movie Versions?: Movies, but that's just because of my own personal sight issues, it's easier to see a movie than squint and see the text in the bubbles in the comics
Graphic Novel or Movie Version?: Same as above I think
Paperback or Hardcover?: I definitely prefer hardcover
Analysis or no analysis, critique or no critique? (do you like being provided with an analysis of the work you're about to read?): I love it when they have a critique, but I read it after I read the work itself
Fiction or Nonfiction?: I like them both
Reality or Fantasy?: Hmmm I like both.
Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, or Other? (for comic books): Hmmmm I think I prefer Marvel
Do you read Forewords/Notes from the Authors when they are provided?: Absolutely!
Do you like the books they make you read in school?: Most of them I despised, but the plays were ok.
Do you like audio books?: LOVE them!
A Work You Recommend to Anyone and Everyone: Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
A Favorite Work You Don't Own Yet: Nicholas & Alexandra: The Family Albums (it's tough to find this out-of-print book for lower than $80!)
Favorite Literary Quotes: (I will post as soon as I have more time)
So You Write?: Yes!
What can I say, I am a HUGE fan of reading!
Snow white & Rose red, One Thousand and One Nights, 
