The Friday Five

1. Who is your favorite author?
2. What is your favorite book/series?
3. Who is a book hero you most wish to be like?
4. Who is a book character that you envy?
5. Recommend one book that your fellow forumers should read.

1) Brian Greene because he really got me interested in science.
2) Sci fi: 2001 series and the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. Non fiction: Fabric of the cosmos, The Ancestors Tale, Hyperspace etc
3) Hannibal Lector
4) Hannibal Lector
5) The demon haunted world by Carl Sagan
 
So you want to eat people?

:lol: No, not at all.

His character in both the books and movies had the ability to analyze situations with great detail and tell everything about a person by just hearing a few sentences. That would be cool to be able to do. Almost exactly like Hugh Laurie's character Gregory House. I would have used him, but he's not from a book.
 
:lol: No, not at all.

His character in both the books and movies had the ability to analyze situations with great detail and tell everything about a person by just hearing a few sentences. That would be cool to be able to do. Almost exactly like Hugh Laurie's character Gregory House. I would have used him, but he's not from a book.

House FTW
 
1. Who is your favorite author?
GENE WOLFE
2. What is your favorite book/series?
The Book Of The New Sun
3. Who is a book hero you most wish to be like?
no one.
4. Who is a book character that you envy?
no one.
5. Recommend one book that your fellow forumers should read.
The Book Of The New Sun & both of its satellites.
 
1. Who is your favorite author?
Milan Kundera

2. What is your favorite book/series?
Slowness

3. Who is a book hero you most wish to be like?
Aramis

4. Who is a book character that you envy?
Dorian Gray

5. Recommend one book that your fellow forumers should read.
Kafka - The Complete Stories

I'll go ahead and answer on behalf of Matt Moliti:
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, John Galt, Henry Reardon, The Fountainhead

And for Jeff, too
George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, the good guy in A Song of Ice and Fire, the badass in A Song of Ice and Fire, A Game of Thrones

:D <3
 
1. Who is your favorite author?
2. What is your favorite book/series?
3. Who is a book hero you most wish to be like?
4. Who is a book character that you envy?
5. Recommend one book that your fellow forumers should read.

1. Stephen King
2. Dark Tower -series
3.
4.
5. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
 
Your surroundings..

1. What is directly to your right?
2. What is directly to your left?
3. What is right in front of you?
4. What's behind you?
5. What is the item closest to you that's blue?

Bonus: show us a pic of where you're sitting.
 
Your surroundings..

1. What is directly to your right?
2. What is directly to your left?
3. What is right in front of you?
4. What's behind you?
5. What is the item closest to you that's blue?

Bonus: show us a pic of where you're sitting.

1. Bass amp and oscillating fan
2. Guitar amp and table
3. Computer
4. Bed
5. Window curtains
 
Your surroundings..

1. What is directly to your right?
2. What is directly to your left?
3. What is right in front of you?
4. What's behind you?
5. What is the item closest to you that's blue?

Bonus: show us a pic of where you're sitting.

1) A painted white brick wall.

2) A painted white brick wall with a window.

3) My desk and laptop computer, which is in turn surrounded by a painted white brick wall.

4) A closet, which is open and showing the painted white brick walls it encloses. In fact, I pretty much live in a damn prison except my door is smaller and my ass only hurts from sitting too much.

5) A pair of toenail clippers (It has a blue cover)
 
1. What is directly to your right?
Franklin Covey planner, mouse, and picture of my son. I'm throwing away the Detroit real estate books.

2. What is directly to your left?
Personnel files and a pen.

3. What is right in front of you?
A slide deck to work through, keyboard, and monitor.

4. What's behind you?
Printer, guitar

5. What is the item closest to you that's blue?
A bottle of Refresh & Revive aroma therapy oils.
 
Your surroundings..

1. What is directly to your right?
2. What is directly to your left?
3. What is right in front of you?
4. What's behind you?
5. What is the item closest to you that's blue?

Bonus: show us a pic of where you're sitting.

1) My laptop
2) My minitower
3) Monitor (duh! ; ) ))
4) garbage can
5) Smart-ass me wants to say "my balls", I'll have to go with my laptop bag :heh:
 
1. What is directly to your right?
My kitchen
2. What is directly to your left?
A wall.
3. What is right in front of you?
My laptop/kitchen table that it is on
4. What's behind you?
wall
5. What is the item closest to you that's blue?
The postcard I got in the mail to tell me where my polling place is.
 
1. What is directly to your right?
My tv on top of a shelf/drawer thing filled with CotM stuff & misc. office thingies.
2. What is directly to your left?
My printer on top of another shelf/drawer thing filled with SymX stuff & misc. office thingies.
3. What is right in front of you?
My keyboard, a couple of cds, a printout of Irish language lessons, my vote-at-home election ballot, & behind that my monitor.
4. What's behind you?
My futon & a couple of rolling file boxes.
5. What is the item closest to you that's blue?
The envelope for my vote-at-home election ballot.