A poll for the comments section:

[smibbo]

1. Name your ten favorite fictional characters of all time and what book, movie, or tv show they came from.

2. Name five fictional characters that you would like to have an affair with and/or marry, plus the source. You may disregard any pre-existing attachments for these characters.

3. Name five books that you would like to live in. (Series may count as a single book.)

4. What classic/critically acclaimed work(s) of literature do you fully appreciate the artistic merits of but hate nonetheless?

5. Name five books that you would recommend I read. Thank you!

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Answering my own poll:

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

1. my ten favorite ficitonal characters:
(ordered by memory)

Hothead Paisan (DUH)
Racer X
Ark Kamikaze (RPG character I played for many years and still pull out occasionally)
Supergirl/Linda Danvers (Peter David era)
The mother on "Malcolm in the Middle"
Khayman (from Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned)
Khmere Ngitsom (my character from EQ)
Inspector Gadget/Max Smart
Jacob Singer (from "Jacob's Ladder")
Inigo Montoya (from "The Princess Bride")

2. five ficitonal characters I'd schtup or chain myself to:

schtup:
Sarah Roberts as played by Susan Sarandon in "the Hunger"
Zed as played by Eric Stoltz in "Killing Zoe"
Zaphod Breeblebrox from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

ball and chain:
Sam from the LoTR trilogy
Kevin from "A Wrinkle in Time" series

3. Five books I would like to live in:
NeverWhere series
Wrinkle in Time series
Narnia series
"Mind Killer/Time Pressure" by Spider Robinson
"The Kin of Ata are Waiting for you" by Dorothy Bryant

4. classic/critically acclaimed work of literature I appreciate but hate anyway:

Anything by John Steinbeck!

5. five books I recommmend (only five?!)

"The Kin of Ata are Waiting for you" - by Dorothy Bryant
"Koko" by Peter Straub
"Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud
"The Essential Ellison"
"Fermat's Enigma" by Simon Singh

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

That's a really tall order.

[madmexican.livejournal.com]

1. Name your ten favorite fictional characters of all time and what book, movie, or tv show they came from.
1.gunny hartman-movie-full metal jacket
2.han solo-movie-star wars
3.gandalf-book-lord of the rings
4.john clark-book-without remorse
5.keyser soze-movie-usual suspects
6.captain kirk-tv-star trek
7.tony soprano-tv-the sopranos
8.vick mackey-tv-the shield
9.sirius black-book-harry potter
10.holden caulfield-book-catcher in the rye

2. Name five fictional characters that you would like to have an affair with and/or marry, plus the source. You may disregard any pre-existing attachments for these characters.
1.princess leia-carrie fisher-star wars
2.Padme Amidala-natalie portman-star wars
3.anything wynonna ryder plays
4.anything christina ricci plays
5.anthing claire forlani plays

3. Name five books that you would like to live in. (Series may count as a single book.)
1.lord of the rings
2.dune
3.without remorse
4.harry potter
5.conan

4. What classic/critically acclaimed work(s) of literature do you fully appreciate the artistic merits of but hate nonetheless?
i have never hated anything that i have read

5. Name five books that you would recommend I read. Thank you!
1.harry potter-the order of the phoenix
2.tom clancey-without remorse
3.stephen kind-the stand
4.dean koontz-dragon tears
5.lord of the rings

OMG!

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

how could I forget Padme??? *swoon*

She'd easily replace Susan Sarandon from "The Hunger"
wow.... *sigh*

Re: OMG!

[madmexican.livejournal.com]

wasn't she just the cutest? i really like natalie portman. she was great in another one of my favorite movies i just watched this weekend.......beautiful girls.

ooh, fun...

[borrowedwings.livejournal.com]

1.
1. Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables books
2. Kermit the Frog (he counts, right?)
3. Lilo, Disney's Lilo and Stitch
4. Sophia Patrillo, The Golden Girls
5. Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye
6. Witch Baby, Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block
7. Owen Meany, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
8. Puck, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
9. Padme-Amidala, Star Wars
10. Phoebe Buffay, Friends

2.
1. Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean
2. Robin Hood (any one, I'm not picky)
3. Forrest Gump
4. Gilbert Blythe, Anne of Green Gables books
5. Ross Geller, Friends

3.
1. Anne of Green Gables (series)
2. Dangerous Angels (series)
3. Harry Potter (series)
4. Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
5. The Princess Bride by William Goldman

4.
1. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
4. the poetry of William Carlos Williams
5. anything by Thomas Hardy

5.
1. The World According to Garp by John Irving
2. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
3. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
4. Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
5. Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card

[bassfingers.livejournal.com]

1. Name your ten favorite fictional characters of all time and what book, movie, or tv show they came from.
(Interestingly, many are either scoundrals or detectives. Think I'll give you 5 from books, 5 from movies/TV...)

1. Daryl Zero from the movie Zero Effect (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120906/combined)
   
2. Léon / The Cleaner from The Professional (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0110413/combined) and La Femme Nikita (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0100263/combined) (same actor, and arguably the same character...)
   
3. Hudson Hawk (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0102070/combined) (title character)
   
4. Chauncey Gardner in Being There (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/combined)
   
5. Dr. Harry Wolper (Peter O'Toole) in Creator (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0088960/combined)
   
6. Slippery Jim DeGritz AKA The Stainless Steel Rat
   
7. Repairman Jack from F. Paul Wilson's Adversary Cycle and Repairman Jack novels
   
8. Professor Moriarity from the Sherlock Holmes canon
   
9. Hagbard Celine from the Illuminatus! Trilogy
   
10. Ford Prefect from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    
2. Name five fictional characters that you would like to have an affair with and/or marry, plus the source. You may disregard any pre-existing attachments for these characters.
(Having a hard time thinking of literary females I've fallen for. Much easier with movies/TV...)

1. Patricia Graynamore from Joe Versus the Volcano (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0099892/combined) (Meg Ryan is just adorable in that role)
   
2. Kate Libby (Angelina Jolie) in Hackers (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/combined)
   
3. Sydney Bristow from "Alias"
   
4. Many of the female regular characters in the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" universe. Each of them have attractive attributes, but it would be hard to choose just one over the others.
   
5. Lelaina Pierce (Winonna Ryder) in Reality Bites (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0110950/combined)
   
3. Name five books that you would like to live in. (Series may count as a single book.)


1. Some interpretation of Victorian London, circa 1888. Maybe Mark Frost's List of 7 or Roger Zelazny's Night in Lonesome October, or perhaps something more "steam-punk".
   
2. Terry Prachett's Discworld
   
3. Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
   
4. Either Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age or Snow Crash
   
5. 18th century Italy of the Historical Illuminatus! Chronicals
   
4. What classic/critically acclaimed work(s) of literature do you fully appreciate the artistic merits of but hate nonetheless?


1. Anything by William Faulkner.
   


5. Name five books that you would recommend I read. Thank you!
(You're welcome!)

1. Fool on the Hill or Sewer, Gas, Electric: The Public Works Trilogy by Matt Ruff
   
2. Glimpses or Slam! by Lewis Shiner
   
3. The Keep by F. Paul Wilson
   
4. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski and Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources by David Mamet. (Wilson would make a good primer for House of Leaves, though the two aren't particualrly alike except in structure...)
   
5. Memos From Purgatory and Web of the City by Harlan Ellison (hard to track down, but worth reading back to back, in either order. Web is Ellison's first novel, about a guy in a gang in NYC. Memos is his autobiography about joining a gang in NYC to write his first novel about a guy in a gang in NYC...)
   

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have a copy of each Memos From Purgatory and Web of the City being as I'm a HUGE Ellison fan. I used to work down the street from a used book store and would snap up any book by him the day it showed up. My favorite would have to be Deathbird Stories however.

Thanks for the recommendations tho!

[bassfingers.livejournal.com]

Ah. Just figured those two might have slipped under the radar, as they've been out of print since the mid 80's as far as I can tell. I agree, Deathbird Stories is great. I got that and Paingod and Other Delusions as my first 2 Ellison collections. Partners in Wonder and Shatterday are above Paingod in my list of faves though.