The Tick and favourite books

[erilyn]

Last night, iibnf and edgehd showed me a number of episodes of the short-lived live action series of "The Tick". Fucking hilarious show, and so incredibly slashy. I need more *g*. And I swooned with jealousy over one of iibnf's purchases from her trip that I hadn't heard about.

Gacked from dream517. Pop fans, you must check out this short film, the adventures of Nsync marionette *g*. Hysterical and clever, and if anyone can save it (it's streamed) and share, I would love and worship you :)

You know, JC is still on the Aussie charts. He's #19 on the ARIA dance singles chart, has been in for 15 weeks, high point was #3. Why did they stop bothering with Schizophrenic, why? And I saw an official Justin calendar for sale when I was out shopping today.

ABC (public broadcaster here in Australia) held a big poll for what is Your Favourite Book? They got tens of thousands of responses (though the host joked on radio the other day that probably means about fifteen thousand *g*), and announced the top ten results on a live show this evening. I hope they put the top hundred up on their site here.
Australia's Top Ten Favourite Books
#10 - A Fortunate Life
#9 - The Da Vinci Code and Catch 22
#8 - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
#7 - 1984
#6 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
#5 - Cloudstreet
#4 - To Kill a Mockingbird
#3 - The Bible
#2 - Pride and Prejudice
#1 - Lord of the Rings

I've read all of them but A Fortunate Life, Cloudstreet and Catch-22 (which I tried to read in my teens but could not get into). Interesting that I haven't read either of the two Australian novels in the top 10. Ok, I haven't read all of the Bible, but I have read quite a bit of it.

Comments

[sinden.livejournal.com]

Dude, we did A Fortunate Life in Year 8 or something. Cloudstreet is Tim Winton, isn't it? I have a ban on reading any of his stuff after having to do Open Swimmer for 3unit English. Blergh.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

It was never one of our books, must have missed the bullet on that one. Yup, Tim Winton, I've never read any of his stuff. One of those authors I hear a lot about, but never have enough impetus to check out.

[sinden.livejournal.com]

I just didn't like his writing style. I know he's supposed to be one of the best Australian authors but he just doesn' grab me.

[i-naiad.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm the same about Nick Earls. People rave about him, but I didn't even make it halfway through one of his books. I absolutely hated his style.

[proteinscollide.livejournal.com]

He never ever finishes a book well. He can set up comic situations, and then the ending's are always disapointingly flat and unfunny. Bleurgh. I used to keep reading each new book in the hopes he'll fix it, but nope, they're almost all like that, adult and YA novels. I've given up now.