Book Meme #3
Jul. 16th, 2016 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smallhobbit27: How/where do you purchase your books?
Occasionally from book shops, Waterstones if I receive tokens from my mother-in-law, the Book Depository for other new books. And mainly from Ebay - I'm quite happy reading second hand books, since I'll probably only read them once. Apart from generally pre-owned books there are a lot which are library stock withdrawn from service. And when I've finished reading and written my review I take them to the charity book shop in Tewkesbury.
28: An ending you wish you could change![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
verdande_mi
Part of me would like to change the ending of The Hobbit, but in the book I think it was right. And there's always fanfic for the film ;) Just one book? My first thought was The Age of Innocence but I'd have changed so much of that book, maybe then The Doomsday Book so it was more dramatic. As I said todaria234 in answer to Q7, the ending is important.
30: One book everyone should readsnailbones
Ooh, difficult. I've never been keen on 'everyone should read' because we all have different responses to things. I'd certainly like more people to read the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories to see what's actually said. But I'm going to suggest The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham.
32: OTP or NoTP?
NoTP - that's not generally what I'm reading for.
33: Cute and fluffy or dramatic and deadly?
Dramatic, but not necessarily deadly.
37: A book you are scared is not going to be all you hoped it would be?
The final book in the Temeraire series.
38: What qualities do you find annoying in a character?okapi1895
Incompetence, as correctly predicted ;) Mistakes happen, unforeseen events occur, people are learning - all of these are perfectly acceptable. But so-called intelligent characters who fail to consider the consequences and those in authority where their incompetence is used as a plot point as much as anything else, just no.
39: Favourite villainsnailbones
Hmm, I'm not sure I have one. A lot of what I read doesn't necessarily have a villain. Some of the baddies in the Discworld series are entertaining. I don't like Moriarty in ACD Sherlock Holmes, but have a soft spot for Andrew Scott's Moriarty in BBC Sherlock; and I really like Moriarty in The Librarians tv series.
40: Has there ever been a book you wish you could un-read?okapi1895
I suspect I've blanked out any I read some time ago. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, which I felt was a total waste of time, but that would be because I could have read something else, rather than the specific contents.
Occasionally from book shops, Waterstones if I receive tokens from my mother-in-law, the Book Depository for other new books. And mainly from Ebay - I'm quite happy reading second hand books, since I'll probably only read them once. Apart from generally pre-owned books there are a lot which are library stock withdrawn from service. And when I've finished reading and written my review I take them to the charity book shop in Tewkesbury.
28: An ending you wish you could change
verdande_miPart of me would like to change the ending of The Hobbit, but in the book I think it was right. And there's always fanfic for the film ;) Just one book? My first thought was The Age of Innocence but I'd have changed so much of that book, maybe then The Doomsday Book so it was more dramatic. As I said to
daria234 in answer to Q7, the ending is important.30: One book everyone should read
snailbonesOoh, difficult. I've never been keen on 'everyone should read' because we all have different responses to things. I'd certainly like more people to read the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories to see what's actually said. But I'm going to suggest The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham.
32: OTP or NoTP?
NoTP - that's not generally what I'm reading for.
33: Cute and fluffy or dramatic and deadly?
Dramatic, but not necessarily deadly.
37: A book you are scared is not going to be all you hoped it would be?
The final book in the Temeraire series.
38: What qualities do you find annoying in a character?
okapi1895Incompetence, as correctly predicted ;) Mistakes happen, unforeseen events occur, people are learning - all of these are perfectly acceptable. But so-called intelligent characters who fail to consider the consequences and those in authority where their incompetence is used as a plot point as much as anything else, just no.
39: Favourite villain
snailbonesHmm, I'm not sure I have one. A lot of what I read doesn't necessarily have a villain. Some of the baddies in the Discworld series are entertaining. I don't like Moriarty in ACD Sherlock Holmes, but have a soft spot for Andrew Scott's Moriarty in BBC Sherlock; and I really like Moriarty in The Librarians tv series.
40: Has there ever been a book you wish you could un-read?
okapi1895I suspect I've blanked out any I read some time ago. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, which I felt was a total waste of time, but that would be because I could have read something else, rather than the specific contents.
