Some cool photo book images:
Book Meme
Image by Kaptain Kobold
1. Homenage a Patrick O'Brian, 2. Gods of Mars, 3. Spike Milligan memorial?, 4. DSC00292, 5. Richard Dawkins on Wooing People with Science, 6. Tock (The Phantom Tollbooth), 7. Too tired to... (Day 209/365), 8. Flashman in the Great Game, 9. The Da Vinci Code, 10. Natural History Museum HDR, 11. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, 12. bruce pennington-1968-A_Princess_of_Mars
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
1. Favorite author: Patrick O'Brian
2. Favorite book: 'Gods of Mars' by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The image I chose is one of my favourite book covers ever.
3. Favorite poem OR poet: Spike Milligan
4. Favorite genre: Hornblower-style Napoleoinic naval fiction.
5. Favorite non-fiction category: Evolutionary biology.
6. Favorite book as a child OR first book you remember from childhood: 'The Phantom Tollbooth' by Norton Juster.
7. What book are you reading now?: 'Watching The English' by Kate Fox. One of the images that came up when I searched for this was of me reading this book :-)
8. Favorite fictional character: Flashman. He's a rogue, a bully a womaniser and a coward. But he's utterly endearing, and an infallible guide to Victorian history.
9. Worst book you ever read: 'The Da Vinci Code'. I read it all of the way through because I wanted to know what happened next. But it's such a badly written book. Utterly awful.
10. A book that changed your life: 'The Oxford Junior Encyclopedia Volume 2 - Natural History' - it started my interest in biology that led to my choice of degree and my current career in ... ermmmm ... IT. Ooops. However I still have the interest in life sciences that this book inspired when I was about 5.
11. A movie that's BETTER than the book: 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe' - not because the book is bad, but because the scale of the battles in the film are how they should have been in the book. I think I may be one of the few people to have read the Narnia Chronicles just so that I could excise all of the military bits for wargames army lists :-)
12. The most disappointing movie adaptation from a book (you know - you love the book and HATE the movie): 'A Princess of Mars' by Edgar Rice Burrough - disappointing because a film adaptation has been promised for years, but never seems to get made.
Understanding Maps
Image by World of Good
Ladybird Books classic.
Book Meme
Image by xadrian
1. Bill Bryson in The Cloisters, 2. imajica, 3. Jea, 4. Kiann, 5. wormhole, 6. Do you remember love, 7. Nagilmund watercolour, 8. Duncan Idaho, 9. White House - South View, 10. John Hodgman Mosaic, 11. Princess Bride characters, 12. I, robot
Created with fd's Flickr Toys, inspired by El Dave
1. Favorite author: Bill Bryson
2. Favorite book: Imajica, Clive Barker
3. Favorite poem OR poet: Jeanann Verlee
4. Favorite genre: Fantasy
5. Favorite non-fiction category: Theoretical Physics
6. Favorite book as a child OR first book you remember from childhood: Robotech
7. What book are you reading now? To Green Angel Tower, part of the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy by Tad Williams
8. Favorite fictional character: Duncan Idaho
9. Worst book you ever read: Cronies, by Robert Bryce
10. A book that changed your life: Areas of My Expertise, by John Hodgman. One word, hoboes.
11. A movie that's BETTER than the book: The Princess Bride
12. The most disappointing movie adaptation from a book (you know - you love the book and HATE the movie): I, Robot
