~~ book crush meme thingie.

[reenka]

reading other people's, i get this feeling like... well... like you all read the same books. *laughs* ack, i'm not really posting, 'cause i posted this as a comment to cassie claire's entry, but what the heck, i love talking about fictional crushes (i remember listing them in my journal when i was 16 for my own amusement, even-- yes, i wrote essays with no one to read them, even-- god i'm lame-- i'm not even good at essays).

what i mean is, everyone has read `good omens'-- whereas i couldn't get into it, much as i adore neil to the point of dizziness. everyone seems to have read `dark is rising'-- and you know what? i read the other series by susan cooper (just how unusual is that?). yep. scarred me, it did. actually no, it was really good, but it was so depressing, and by the end i couldn't take it anymore so i only skimmed the last book. i still thought it was wonderful (mostly). but i couldn't take any more of her writing after that. and no, i haven't read anne rice (don't love any vampires but spike, plus her writing... doesn't do it for me).
    i haven't read `pride and prejudice'. i've read loads of its ilk (`jane eyre' and so on) when i was nine and ten, but not that, for some reason. i got sucked in by fantasy books, heh. but i'm just stunned, really, 'cause it seems like almost -half- of the people have had a crush on mr. darcy. that strikes me as rather odd (statistically speaking, what does `pride and prejudice' have to do with harry potter?).

even with diana wynne jones-- i think i read everything but what the others have mentioned. my favorite diana wynne jones are probably the chrestomanci books, but i really really love `witch week', `the time of the ghost' (read it!), `deep secret' and `dark lord of derkholm' (which has a sequel apparently!!).
    i always knew my fiction tastes were unique, but man. *laughs* even among those who like the same stuff, i manage to read the other books -.-

i think maybe i'm finally getting a sense of what other sorts of books go along with reading `harry potter' (a -lot- people have apparently read `the secret garden', whereas that's one of the few i haven't read 'cause i don't know if it was translated into russian). but seriously. why do so many of you have a crush on dickon? is there something i'm missing? i dunno-- although i did crush on them all, in the movie. ehehehe.
    <-- infidel.


1. my very first crush was peter pan. i must've been five (or six? or seven?), but anyway, it shocked me. i was a wee thing, and any rush of emotion of that sort was bound to freak me out. and it did, it did. i saw (a russian version of) him in a movie, and boom. love. and then of course i read the book, and more love. i adore him still. feckless, cruel, charming, eternal. and beautiful. i always was completely sure he was beautiful.

2. i had the biggest crush on sherlock holmes around ages 9-10. maybe it was a father-figure thing, i dunno. but again with the cruel and this time, the extremely intelligent-- and icy. mmmm, icy mocking thin-as-rake tragic figures. i was all about that, at ten. heh.

3. i also adored athos-- distant and brilliant and tragic. siiiigh.

4. i had a huge, huge, galaxy-sized crush on spock. i think he epitomized one side of my ideal (as draco epitomizes another)-- he was distant, brilliant, logical, unobtainable, secretly passionate, intense, repressed. i spent -years- reading star trek novels and drooling over jim & spock's eternal love-- without really meaning it "that" way. k/s still squicks me, simply 'cause i can't bear to have spock lose control for so long, i know how it'd hurt him. i was all about the implied affection and the careless slip of "jim" in the heat of the moment. *laughs*

5. had huge love-on for starwise in elfquest. ahhh, ethereal misty magic-user types, mischievous yet sad. plus, you know, the silver-blond hair. and the eternal youth, heh.

6. i think i had a crush on the child-like empress. *laughs* i really, really, really loved `the neverending story', and while i loved (and identified with) bastian, she was just gorgeous and shining and it's the only fictional-girl crush i can think of so i had to include her. mostly i identify with girls instead.

7. adore tim hunter. much as i love harry, it will never be like me and tim. mostly cuz he's got the draco appeal -and- the harry appeal. he's witty, sarcastic, sincere, foolish, reckless, sensitive, insensitive, casually cruel as well as romantic and obsessive. the whole brilliant and powerful and greatest magician of his time works in his favor too. and awwww, cute-glasses-boy.

8. well, obviously draco malfoy. love him no matter what, but i just think that's how i am with any character. once i decide i love them, it doesn't matter anymore how much of a jerk they are. in fact, most interesting characters could be considered jerks often as not. have loved many different incarnations of draco, but as long as he gets the best lines and he's convinced at least himself that he's a gorgeous badass slytherin, i'm there :D

9. harry, because i could never resist bespectacled dorks with an attitude and yet a genuineness and sincerity that means they're always basically lonely and withdrawn from even their friends. gah. love him. *siiigh*
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and man, i'm listening to saliva's `always' on repeat now. i blame idiotparade, i really really really do ><;;
    although writing angsty h/d isn't a bad thing, i have so much studying to do i think i may as well die now.
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    EDIT - i almost never cry over stories. but this just -killed- me. i don't even know what to say. just, read sloane's `the semantics of statues'. seriously. it's just. it's everything i'm looking for and yet it leaves me hollow and in pain and wanting. god.

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[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

I hate books with illustrations. I may not be able to see the image I have of characters in my head, but I can see when it's wrong. Plus, characters usually look ugly in illustrations.

*goes to sleep*