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Skarmory, Absol, Linoone, Scyther, Lapras
These are a mixture of how badass they are/how often I use them x prettiness.
If this were based on what Pokemon I use to get into the Hall of Fame… the list would be more like Dragonite, Gyarados, Linoone, Gardevoir, Kadabra and Azumarill. Some of the ones that are also my favourites kind of filter down into some of the below questions too.
b) Your top five legendaries:
Entei, Mespirit, Kyogre, Celebi, Mew
Yeah, I (mostly) like cute ones.
c) The top five Pokémon you think are ugly:
Gliscor, Weavile, Hipowdon, Metagross, Huntail
I could’ve chosen all gen 4 Pokemon, but I thought I’d pick some of the uglier gen 3 to even things up. And no, I don’t think many of the gen 1 or 2 Pokemon are ugly.
d) The top five Pokémon you
Bellsprout, Lombre, Vigoroth, Gulpin, Quagsire
These are pretty much based on how often I’m surprised they’re actually a Pokemon + my astonishment that someone would design a Pokemon like that x how freaking hard it is to train them + the useless moves they learn.
e) Out of your favorite type, your top five favorites:
Normal type – Eevee, Girafarig, Linoone, Persian and Teddiursa
My other favourite types would be Psychic, Dark and Water.
1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
I believe it’s some of my Beatrix Potter books. Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin and a few others.
2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you'll read next?
Inda by Sherwood Smith and My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Paper Towns by John Green and The Doctor Trap by Simon Messingham
Finishing THUD!, Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox and reading the rest of the Inda series by Sherwood Smith.
3. What book did everyone like and you hated?
Peter Pan, the original one.
4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you'll read, but you probably won't?
Um, probably some on that to-read list. The most likely that will remain unread will be either Charles Dickens or Jane Austen/Charlotte Bronte/that coterie of writers.
5. Which book are you saving for "retirement?"
Realistically, I’ll be reading whatever I fancy when I retire. There is no specific book that I wish to put off reading for that long, which I could just not ever read. But to answer the question properly, something like Anna Karenina. In other words, something large and clunky that I won’t mind dying in the middle of.
6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?
Read first. One of my ‘requirements’ that I don’t always follow through on is that if I can’t guess what happens in a book from its last page, then I at least consider picking it up and reading it.
Of course, if it's a book I’ve been desperately waiting to read, then that step gets skipped entirely.
7. Acknowledgments: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
They’re only interesting when the author makes it interesting, with a joke or explanation or something. I like plain dedications though.
I dislike cryptic thanks for some obscure deed though. They’re unbelievably frustrating and makes me want to strangle the author. BEING CRYPTIC DOES NOT MAKE YOU SEEM SMARTER. IT MAKES YOU SOUND UNBELIEVEABLY ELITIST.
8. Which book character would you switch places with?
I am actually completely not sure. When I was younger/little, I would’ve switched places with any number of characters from books. Now, I have no idea of course, but the idea of switching places with someone book-ish but surrounded by magical sparklies still appeals. So maybe Maree from Deep Secret. Or Tris.
9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?
Pearls of Lutra. Eating chocolate éclair ice cream with my dad on a rainy afternoon sometime in April-June when I was… nine? It’s actually more the reverse, but this is my strongest book to memory association. There are others like a specific colour of nail polish with the second? Harry Potter book and the from-the-seventies Edmund’s cookbook with my grandmother but ice cream and rainy days are my strongest book triggers.
10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
There is a book at the bottom of my closet that I kind of accidentally stole from my primary’s school journal collection… the only other ‘interestingly acquired’ books that I have are ones that I’ve won in a contest of some kind, which includes Artemis Fowl, two random Babysitter’s Club books, a booklet thing on making friendship bracelets and… something else which I can’t remember.
11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
I have lent books, but never given them away. Or at least I don’t think I have, and certainly not for a special reason. This makes me somewhat sad, except any of the books I own I don't really feel that someone else NEEDS or at least at the moment.
12. Which book has been with you to the most places?
Quite possibly my copies of the first two Harry Potter books. I used to carry them around with me everywhere.
13. Any "required reading" you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?
What required reading? I didn’t have any. Although Herodotus DOES go on tangents while in the middle of several other tangents, thus making him the most confusing thing ever. I haven’t tried reading him again. It might be easier this time around, I’m not sure.
I will note that I did find reading ‘The Wind in the Willows’ rather tiring when I was seven. However, five or so years later, it suddenly wasn’t, even though I still didn’t particularly like any of characters aside from the badger.
14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
A winning scratchie (instant win lottery things). Also, various bits of paper used as book marks. (Someday I want to leave behind a fantastically fannish note in a book I love at the library so that maybe the next person who reads it will smile or find they are not alone.)
15. Used or brand new?
Used if out of print or HIDEOUSLY expensive new. I’m somewhat picky with my used books though, because they need to be in a condition that I’d leave them in. Also, the scent of the book somewhat plays a factor. I do like books taken out of the library’s circulation though. They’re AWESOME.
New books are generally the books I buy or get gifted though.
16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
*has never read a book by him* *knows this is utter heresy to some of her flist*
I may have read some short stories of his, but if I did, I have no recollection of them, nor do I remember them being spectacular in anyway.
17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
I don’t believe I have, although I do think the LotR movies are almost there. (There just isn’t enough footnoting or random bursts of song to proper encapsulate Tolkien in my opinion.)
Oh, wait. Atonement might qualify, seeing as it pretty much follows the book exactly except it isn’t 500 pages long. (I haven’t actually read the book, but the text seemed rather drying and boring… which could probably be said for Pride and Predjudice as well.)
18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
WINNIE THE GODAMN POOH. I do not like my Rabbits yellow with a whiny nasal voice, I do not like my bears to be orange.
Also, I really kind of like the E.H. Shepard illustrations and the roundness of the Disney versions makes me feel all ick.
(This is also one of those things where I dislike the ‘sequels’ that have been added.)
19. Have you ever read a book that's made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?
Oh god, Redwall series, I’m looking at you. Also, strangely, some of Roald Dahl’s books do too, though not necessarily the Charlie ones. Snozzcumbers sound delicious.
Science books sometimes do too… but in the way that they describe physical processes by using an everyday activity.
20. Who is the person whose book advice you'll always take?
Rhi, T, Jenny or my dad. Out of those four… depends on what genre. If it’s more history/romance/supernatural; Jenny. General rec; Rhi. Shamelessly fantasy; my dad. YA/feminist literature/sci-fi; T
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Date: 2010-06-05 11:21 am (UTC)Peter Pan was just... painful. It was very much a Victorian adult writing for Victorian children. AND SO THERE WERE ISSUES.
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Date: 2010-06-05 04:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-06 06:04 am (UTC)But otherwise that sounds adorable~
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Date: 2010-06-06 06:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-06 06:09 am (UTC)They're all so cute, I love them. ♥ It's too bad I don't have them with me, otherwise I'd take a picture to show you.
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Date: 2010-06-06 06:17 am (UTC)That's the Eeyore I have, but I can't find any of the others...
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Date: 2010-06-09 12:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-06-06 05:58 am (UTC)And I have had to go back and correct all my horrible grammar for some of the questions. (And add things, like about snozzcumbers.)
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Date: 2010-06-06 08:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-06 12:28 pm (UTC)