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F!S Friending Meme III
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Name:
Age:
Location:
Fandoms:
What in fandom interests me:
What in fandom does NOT interest me:
Major Non-fandom Interests:
My LJ Contains Mostly:
Other:

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<b>Name:</b> <b>Age:</b> <b>Location:</b> <b>Fandoms:</b> <b>What in fandom interests me:</b> <b>What in fandom does NOT interest me:</b> <b>Major Non-fandom Interests:</b> <b>My LJ Contains Mostly:</b> <b>Other:</b>

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[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

Name: hangingfire
Age: Old enough to know better, young enough to not care.
Location: Texas
Fandoms: Doctor Who (old and new), Discworld, BSG, Sherlock Holmes, Jeeves & Wooster, 1776, Sweeney Todd (stage and screen), and a ton of stuff only a handful of people on the internets seem to have ever heard of (Michael Moorcock, anyone? Iain M. Banks? Anyone?).
What in fandom interests me: Good fic, lulz, fanvids, fun speculation and discussion, RP, good old-fashioned silliness.
What in fandom does NOT interest me: Shipwars, wank, grandstanding, unfunnybusiness, stupidity in all its manifestations.
Major Non-fandom Interests: Knitting, art, history, novels that have no fandoms at all, politics, music geekery.
My LJ Contains Mostly: Commentary and reviews on stuff I'm reading, watching, and doing. The most intensely fannish stuff is in a separate fandom journal elsewhere.
Other: I poked a badger with a spoon.

[sammywhatammy]

Wow, you sound intensely awesome :Dbbb Doctor Who, Jeeves & Wooster, stage Sweeney Todd. Also similar give-and-take from fandoms :Db

Willing to try a Fryphile out?

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

Sure thing! Welcome aboard. ^_^

[sammywhatammy]

Nice to meet ya! :D

[stormbringer986.livejournal.com]

Michael Moorcock AND Iain M. Banks?! HELL YES! You officially rock my socks off. I've been trying to make my friends read those books, and none of them know what they're missing.

Btw, Jeeves & Wooster and BSG are awesome too, and "novels that have no fandoms at all" is the story of my life when it comes to reading.

Friends?

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

Heck yes! So what's your favorite Moorcock and Banks?

[stormbringer986.livejournal.com]

Added!

My favorite Moorcock book is The Dreamthief's Daughter. It's also the first one I ever read by him, and one of the better results of "buying a book based on title/cover." I've read all of the Elric Saga books, and the Von Bek omnibus as well. I have a big pile of other ones waiting to be read too.

I only started reading Banks relatively recently, back at the end of April while I was studying abroad in England. One of my online friends mentioned his Culture novels and I decided to check them out. Consider Phlebas and Use of Weapons both totally blew my mind away when I finished them. I've been meaning to order the rest from Amazon.com, and I can't wait to read the rest of them.

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

I'm in the middle of The Dreamthief's Daughter right now, as it turns out. I got into Moorcock by way of Elric back when I was in high school, and went on from there to ... well, just about everything else. Never quite got into the Runestaff or Castle Brass books, but I've at least sampled just about all of his other series. I particularly love the Dancers at the End of Time, and lately I've been on a huge Jerry Cornelius kick (enough to realize that probably my absolute favorite Moorcock novel is The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century).

Use of Weapons was my first Banks book, and ... yeah, that's pretty much the greatest, I'd say. I've read most of his SF, although Feersum Endjinn and The Algebraist are still waiting for me. Currently my husband is reading Matter, and I'll get it from him when he's done.