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Curious Minds Want to Know

1. When did your love of reading begin?
Not so much a love as following instructions from Mother Brain. All glory to Mother Brain!

2. What attracts you to reading versus other forms of relaxation or entertainment?
Hive Unit 12 must read books in order to better understand the feeble human intellect. Mother Brain commands and we obey. All glory to Mother Brain!

3. And, what brought you here to this forum?
To gather information on feeble human thought processes in preparation for Operation Monkey Splat. All glory to Mother Brain.


I have said too much.
 
RaVeN said:
Carpe Litany-Seize the Bitch
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Hive Unit 12's special secreted slime layer will prevent you from gaining purchase upon her precious vat-grown flesh. Any further attempt to restrain Hive Unit 12 will result in release of the poison-tipped homing sporks.
 
Litany said:
Hive Unit 12's special secreted slime layer will prevent you from gaining purchase upon her precious vat-grown flesh. Any further attempt to restrain Hive Unit 12 will result in release of the poison-tipped homing sporks.
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I can't hold her together Cap'n. Her dylithium crystals have blown. She'll never make warp speed.


RaVeN
 
1. I don't remember.

2. As a minor I can't buy porn, but I can buy Anais Nin. mmmmmmm, smut.

3. Because I was banned from another one.
 
1. When did your love of reading begin? As early as I learn how to read, :),seriously, I think it all started when my brother brought home this Bible(old and new testament, I'm in fifth grade that time),and I got curious what's in there,so I started flipping thru pages,and read it and then before I knew it,I finished it from cover to cover,from then on I discover something about me,that I enjoy reading.

2. What attracts you to reading versus other forms of relaxation or entertainment?Compare to tv/movie,video games, I consider those stuff as a piece of junk and I don't want any part of it,aside from I learned a lot of stuff in reading, I originally came from a non-english speaking country,and thru reading,now I don't have any trouble communicating in english,but I'm still looking for a book entitle: "Grammar for Dummies" :D
3. And, what brought you here to this forum? I owe it to AOL using keyword "bookforum". :D
 
RaVeN said:
I'm sorry Crystal. :eek:

I did it on purpose when you first joined but this time was an accident. Don't change your name, you're perfect just the way you are. ;)


RaVeN
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Nah----, forget it. Raven, sometimes you just tooooooo naughty, but signifying that you will promisingly exceed your Master in this area, ;) btw who is your master? Tell him/her, you never ever failed him/her. :cool:

Too naive and/or silly of me to identify with that "name", and IN this internet world! :eek: anyway.

have more fun! :p
 
VTChEwbecca said:
This is a great thread, Tig. I've been having lots of fun reading everyone's answers. what a great idea!
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Well, y'all are the one's that have made it great! Thanks to everyone who's responded so far -- like Chewbecca, I'm really enjoying finding out a little more about each of you. :)
 
SillyWabbit said:
It was I that posted about "For water like chooclate!" :D

Regards
SillyWabbit
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Ah, it is you, wabbit. Thanks! (everwhere got your footprints, hey? :) )
That book is really good. Btw, what you call that kind of style of Latin America Literature? i think they have a special term for that kind of style of writing. Reality transcends to dreamy, dreamy stuff transpired in to real life? The style of Marquez, the style of laura esquaivel, etc. ---I think there are some other authors from Latin America transmitting the same blood of this style. "macordo", what is that? :confused:
 
Yes, I love the magic realism style!! :) Life is full of wonder and magic if you only know how to look at it and what to look for. This is why I like magic realism because it shows you that.

Also latin American literature seems to share a kind of anecdotal style that I really love. This is the way I have always wanted to write and the way that I wantd to read. It has been great to discover that people write that way :D

I really want to read as much by latin American authors as I can find :D Marquez is a wonder. Luara Esquivel's novel The House of spirits was great! Must... get... more!!!

I have not got For Water like Chocolate? yet. It's in my Amazon basket as we speak!!! SOON! I really look forward to reading it!!! It has magical dreamy stuff AND cooking! To things I really like so how can it NOT be good????

Regards
SillyWabbit

PS: Yes, the wabbits footprints are everywhere! :)
 
watercrystal said:
Nah----, forget it. Raven, sometimes you just tooooooo naughty, but signifying that you will promisingly exceed your Master in this area, ;) btw who is your master? Tell him/her, you never ever failed him/her. :cool:
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It should be obvious that Master Wabbit is THE Master. I think he knows down deep in the innards of his little thumper that I would sooner self inflict one of those nasty paper cuts that seem to be all the rage before I would fail him.


RaVeN
 
Ah wise grasshopper! An extra bowl of rice for you! I know you can never fail me but if you did that you would throw yourself on a sharpened paper spike! :eek:

I must go now... and run along some water!

Regards
SillyWabbit
 
Q1: Like most here, I don't really remember a time before I read books. I have very clear memories of liking Clifford the Big Red Dog and Curious George when I was 2. I can tell you that my grandmother once told my mother that I should be taken to the doctor because it was abnormal for a kid to spend so much time sitting in one spot reading. (Not that she was anti-reading, but it is all I did.)

Q2: I've never really dug too deeply into that particular motivation (i.e. what makes me so relentlessly print-oriented). I don't want to burst the bubble. But, I do know that when I am engrossed in a story (or the cereal box, or whatever it is), everything else ceases to exist. I suppose if I didn't have books, I would be a dope fiend or something.

Q3: Like most, I found this forum through our friend Google. I was feeling especially isolated, and gave it a shot.


BTW, Wabbit, I agree 100 % about Magic Realism. When it is done well, it is transcendent. I hope you were able to track down the Chuck Rosenthal books I once mentioned elsewhere.
 
funes said:
But, I do know that when I am engrossed in a story (or the cereal box, or whatever it is), everything else ceases to exist. I suppose if I didn't have books, I would be a dope fiend or something.
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So I'm not the only one who reads everything around me. Whew! Don (my husband) always tells me that I tune out everything else while I'm reading. I just let the story take over my senses, I reckon. I imagine the sights and the smells and the feelings....takes up a lot of memory space, I don't have room left to pay attention to the stuff around me.
 
funes said:
BTW, Wabbit, I agree 100 % about Magic Realism. When it is done well, it is transcendent. I hope you were able to track down the Chuck Rosenthal books I once mentioned elsewhere.
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You know I actually forgot all about it :eek: lol

But now I have writen down the name and will be sure to try him out! Thanks for the reminder :)

Regards
SillyWabbit
 
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