Introduce Yourselves, Pretty Please?

[rivkat]

I realize that I don't know as many of you all as I thought I did. Someday, perhaps after I grade my exams, I will read everybody's LJ, but for now I'd really love to get to know you better -- in a way that requires less effort on my part. So, how's about it? Also, should I review more books or fewer? What about music and movies? I'm unbudgeable on the fic, so those of you who aren't here for that are just going to have to skip it.

ETA: Specific questions about you:

What do you like to talk about?

I'm guessing we're mostly media fans, so what are your fandoms?

Would Superman take Batman, or would Batman beat Superman? (I have a very strong opinion on the latter.)

Comments

[haphazardmethod.livejournal.com]

greetings from hap, another XF refugee. I used to write XF fic; now I read Buffy, Angel and West Wing fic. I'm a policy wonk (hence the WW fixation) who likes to talk about policy, law, etc. and about books, especially about the junk I'm reading (right now, the Anita Blake series by Hamilton), though if you were to look on my LJ you'd find me writing mostly about my one year old son, Scientific Method. Boring to anyone but me but still better than accosting folks in the hallway with 400 pictures.

And Batman would beat Superman because I always root for the twisty sneak.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Hi there -- I remember you! I like the Anita Blake books more than you do; probably reading the first when it had just come out, when I was a little bit younger, has something to do with it. And I'm a sucker for tough guys and gals who like to crack wise when they're in a bad spot. I do agree that the character has developed some problems, though I don't mind the superpowers so much as the, you know, sociopathy. I really, really hope the next book deals with that internally the way that the book with Edward (titles escape me) did externally.

Wise guys

[haphazardmethod.livejournal.com]

I love Dennis Lehane's Patrick Kenzie series for a (sort of) tough guy who cracks wise. A lot of folks like Robert Crais' Elvis Cole series for exactly this reason, though I always found the character too glib (the author, too, actually). I'd hoped Anita was going down this road but somehow the author makes her sound more childish to me than funny.

So Viv Wiley is pushing Terry Pratchett these days, and suggests starting with "Guards! Guards!" Is that what you'd recommend?

Re: Wise guys

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

I love Pratchett, and the City Guards books are a good place to start. All his Discworld novels are fun; they can be roughly grouped into Granny Weatherwax books, with witches as main characters, Rincewind books, with wizards, and City Guards books (rather more obvious). You can also read them in pretty much any order, and Guards! Guards! is, I think, chronologically the first of the City Guards books, which are among my favorites, especially Feet of Clay.