What Book Are You?

[Alt]

Hard to pin down one, but I'd go with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

 

[Seduce]

Hard to pin down one, but I'd go with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

Very much ashamed to say I never managed to read that one.
Although I watched Bladerunner 3 times.
I love that movie.

 

[Alt]

Very much ashamed to say I never managed to read that one.
Although I watched Bladerunner 3 times.
I love that movie.

Movie isn't quite the same as the book, but both are solid.

 

[Seduce]

Movie isn't quite the same as the book, but both are solid.

Maybe its because I like Harrison Ford
Phillip K. Dick if I am not mistaken? I think I had some stories he wrote but I didnt like all of them too much..... huh it was so long ago....

 

[Alt]

Maybe its because I like Harrison Ford
Phillip K. Dick if I am not mistaken? I think I had some stories he wrote but I didnt like all of them too much..... huh it was so long ago....

Correct you are! I wasn't too impressed with his writing, but something about the story and the bleakness of giving worth to one's existence was intriguing. Maybe you need to curl up with the movie again and dream of Rick Deckard (H. Ford).

 

[rosco rathbone]

Hard to pin down one, but I'd go with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

That's a very bleak, sad book with powerful undercurrents of desperate loneliness. The movie didn't come close to doing it justice. (Although it's a fine sci-fi/noir flick with great visual design.)

 

[Little Bird]

Some hours ago I felt like "The Capital" by Karl Marx: A huge tome full of confusing things that appear to make no sense at all.

But now I feel like a collection of "Calvin and Hobbes" strips by Bill Watterson: Life is beautifull and you have to worry about nothing but to choose if you like first of the strawberry- or the choclate-icecream...

 

[Seduce]

Some hours ago I felt like "The Capital" by Karl Marx: A huge tome full of confusing things that appear to make no sense at all.

But now I feel like a collection of "Calvin and Hobbes" strips by Bill Watterson: Life is beautifull and you have to worry about nothing but to choose if you like first of the strawberry- or the choclate-icecream...

Marx? Huh......
I would rather recommend Hegel or Kant (too tired and sleepy to translate the titles from Croatian, but I think you got the meaning )

 

[Vixandra]

Part of me wants to say Freak the Mighty but that's 'cause it was one of my fav books as a kid. Could identify with both main characters- too smart for my surroundings and yet didn't have the "right look" to fit in more often then not. Or right mindset, whatever.

These days though, I'd have to say I'm probably a Robert A. Heinlein book. Alternating between "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" and "The Star Beast" with a bit of "Starship Troopers" tossed in for fun.

Might change tommorow though.

 

[Little Bird]

Marx? Huh......
I would rather recommend Hegel or Kant (too tired and sleepy to translate the titles from Croatian, but I think you got the meaning )

I really thought of Sokrates but I could not remember any of his works or any work at all, that I didn't understand. I hate Sokrates, he was the only one I never understood in any way. He was not a philosoph, but just a trickster...

 

[Seduce]

I really thought of Sokrates but I could not remember any of his works or any work at all, that I didn't understand. I hate Sokrates, he was the only one I never understood in any way. He was not a philosoph, but just a trickster...

Classical education?
You remind me of the time when I had to translate Ovidius - Methamorphosis for an exam..... really lovely stuff, but when you try to translate it..... it sucks (at least when I did it).

 

[arctic-stranger]

Correct you are! I wasn't too impressed with his writing, but something about the story and the bleakness of giving worth to one's existence was intriguing.

Philip K. Dick is a real life Kilgore Trout.....

(does anyone get this reference?)

 

[TaintedB]

Correct you are! I wasn't too impressed with his writing, but something about the story and the bleakness of giving worth to one's existence was intriguing. Maybe you need to

Philip K. Dick is a real life Kilgore Trout.....

(does anyone get this reference?)

And here all this time I thought that was Theodore Sturgeon. :/

Ok, this is rather eggregious and reaching, but I think I'm a character in a Phillip Roth novel. Which one? Too hard to say. Any of them, pretty much. Maybe _Sabbath's Theater_, although this line from _The Dying Animal_ also reminds me a lot of my life and relationships:

"Only occasionally did we ever go out for dinner or the theater. She was too afraid of the prying press and of winding up on Page Six and that was fine with me, because whenever I saw her I always wanted to fuck her right away and not have first to sit through some shitty play."

What's neat about being a female character in a Roth novel is that you are always objectified, always the "other," even during the times when he occasionally writes from your point of view. For some reason I really like that, it seems sexy and masculine to not be able to see women as other than the other.

 

[jasonlf]

Ender's Game...

just because I get the feeling my whole life has been designed for me to do something great later on.

 

[Caitlynne]

Stranger in a Strange Land

Yep! This one would qualify for me too!!

 

[laurel-marie]

LOL So this describes you ?

You're Dune!
by Frank Herbert
You have control over a great wealth of resources, but no one wants to let you have them. You've decided to try to defend yourself, but it may take eons before you really get back what you feel you deserve. Meanwhile you have a cult-like following of minions waiting for your life to progress. This would all be even more exciting if you could just get the sand out of your eyes.

Stop laughing and make those mean people give me back my great wealth of resorces.
While you're at it...can you tell me what a sub is going to do with minions?

 

[Ophelia_221]

Well, judging by my diagnosed "mental disorder"...

I would have to agree with my ex-fiancee when his mother bought him a help-book called "I love you, I hate you. Go away, where are you going? How to deal with a Borderline loved one"

 

[moonieblue]

According to the quiz: You're Adventures of Huckleberry Finn!
by Mark Twain
With an affinity for floating down the river, you see things in black and white. The world is strange and new to you and the more you learn about it, the less it makes sense. You probably speak with an accent and others have a hard time understanding you and an even harder time taking you seriously. Nevertheless, your adventurous spirit is admirable. You really like straw hats.


However, the book that best represents me is Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. It is my all time favorite.

 

[kerker_miester]

Thinking

Hmmmmmm I will have to ponder that one for a bit.

 

[Netzach]

There's a short story by Oscar Wilde that I get all my friends to read if they want to understand me its calledThe Happy Prince and it had more of a profound effect on me than any other story.

It is especially poignant to me because my granddad recorded himself reading it for me just before he died as it was his favorite story. He was a wise man, and I loved him greatly. The story he recorded helped me grieve and even at that young age (about six) spoke to me about things like sacrifice, service and social conscience that proved central to my character as I grew older.

The story touches me in ways nothing else has ever come close to.

That is the only fairy tale I've loved, that and Wilde's "Birthday of the Infanta" which I find even sadder. Cool.

I got "Brave New World" on the quiz, but I feel more like Alice in Wonderland lately, or "The Tunnel" by William H. Gass.

 

[Xelebes]

hehehe, you don't knoe me very well do you?

Food.

 

[Aeroil]

Food.

Xelebes does know me well .

 

[curiousjen]

That is the only fairy tale I've loved, that and Wilde's "Birthday of the Infanta" which I find even sadder. Cool.

I haven't read "Birthday of the infanta"- will check it out, thanks Netzach! I was always fond of "The Selfish Giant" though- although I haven't read it in ages- will have to see if it's as good as I remember.

 

[shy slave]

I did the quiz and came out as:
You're Lolita!
by Vladimir Nabokov
Considered by most to be depraved and immoral, you are obsessed with sex. What really tantalizes you is that which deviates from societal standards in every way, though you admit that this probably isn't the best and you're not sure what causes this desire. Nonetheless, you've done some pretty nefarious things in your life, and probably gotten caught for them. The names have been changed, but the problems are real. Please stay away from children.

Choosing a book to describe who i am is far more difficult.

A book of poems with a variety of poetry would cover all aspects.
A book called 'Skallagrig by Willian Horwood probably highlights my belief systems.

A difficult question Tainted

 

[Seduce]

I tried the quiz second time and got all the different questions..... and answer as well.
This time its is more like it......:
You're Siddhartha!
by Hermann Hesse
You simply don't know what to believe, but you're willing to try anything once. Western values, Eastern values, hedonism and minimalism, you've spent some time in every camp. But you still don't have any idea what camp you belong in. This makes you an individualist of the highest order, but also really lonely. It's time to chill out under a tree. And realize that at least you believe in ferries.

I would agree on this one. And I do like my loneliness, I am used to it and cherish it.