https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/ Why This Is Hell - Dreamwidth Studios Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:16:12 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios faustus personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/90269/124918 https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/ 100 67 https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/382920.html Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:16:12 GMT https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/382920.html 2011 - spent midnight in Paris<br /><br />2001 - became a jewel thief thanks to being hypnotised<br /><br />1991 - tried to join a vigilante group<br /><br />1981 - year off<br /><br />1971 - joined a Latin American revolution<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=faustus&ditemid=382920" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/382920.html memes public 0 https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/310239.html Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:27:17 GMT https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/310239.html Gakked at random from <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/surveys/12957189.html">http://community.livejournal.com/surveys/12957189.html</a>, and notably for the books it leaves out - <i>Blade Runner, Maltese Falcon</i>, any noir at all frankly, any of John Huston, any Hitchcock, <i>Naked Lunch</i>, <i>The Prestige</i>, any Wyndham, any Clarke, any Christie, any Doyle, pretty well any crime aside from one Hiasson and one Grisham, etc<br /><br />Famous Books to Movies<br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/310239.html#cutid1">random list of films</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=faustus&ditemid=310239" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/310239.html memes listing public 0 https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/260156.html Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:57:45 GMT https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/260156.html This has been doing the rounds on another social utility - so I thought I'd have a go. Name the fifteen books that will always stay with you - first thoughts, what you think of in fifteen minutes, that sort of thing.<br /><br />I'm not entirely surprised that only two books by women appeared (The Teddy Robinson books should be there), and I was looking for <i>the</i> theory book that made me quiver, but it's pseuds corner. Many of these I read for the first time between 16 and 21 (or younger):<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/260156.html#cutid1">Cheap suspense</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />The interesting question would be why these fifteen...<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=faustus&ditemid=260156" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/260156.html memes books literate public 0