Found this on Flora’s Musing. Seemed like a good tag to do mid-summer when blockbusters used to be the dominant force in America for the plebe masses.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A book that kept you up all night
Monster Hunter Bloodlines was, as I described in my review, balls to the walls action. That’ll keep you up reading all night!
The Princess Bride
A WONDERFULLY quotable book
For me, that would be The Lord of the Rings. I’m not a big “remember quotes” kind of guy, but “you shall not pass” has always stuck in my head.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
A character who loves breaking the rules
Saul from Neal Asher’s Owner trilogy. He’s not all adorable and funny like Bueller, but Saul will break the rules with the best of them, forging his own as necessary.
When Harry Met Sally
A couple that took eternity to get together
Montrose and Raina from the Count to the Eschaton Sequence by Wright. 18-19 billion years seems like eternity to me!
Back to the Future
A book involving time travel
The Aunt Paradox by Chris Dolley. Reeves and Worcester have to combat a Legion of Time Traveling Aunts to help the multiverse!
Pretty in Pink
A character with a unique style
Luffy from the One Piece manga. That kid’s got Style, what with his straw hat and all.
The Karate Kid
Favourite book involving the training/mentoring trope
Way-farer by Dennis Schmidt. Jerome and the Old Man on the Mountain are absolutely perfect examples of this.
Die Hard
A book with a trip that doesn’t go as planned
The Color of Magic. Nothing on Discworld ever goes planned! 😀
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
A book with the central character’s name in the title
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians. Great stuff!
Dirty Dancing
A female character who comes out of her shell
Anne Elliot from Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Best Austen story ever.
Top Gun
A death that took you by surprise
The drug addicted woman who is rescued by the main character and ends up being killed, thus propelling the entire story of Without Remorse by Tom Clancy.
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
An ending that left you both happy and sad
The Crippled God, the final book in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. I was happy it was over and was sad I had been forced to read t he whole thing to get an ending.
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That last one was a double-whammy! I think they were looking for something more bittersweet . . .
I don’t think I could do one of these tag things. I forget too much.
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I hated ET. I watched it once and have ever since wondered why it was popular and why people liked it.
I forget a lot too. When I do these, I scroll through my calibre book review library and see what connections I can make by looking at the covers 😀
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Ah, an aide-mémoire. I’ve done that too with my stuff online. Having a searchable index of all your reviews comes in handy.
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What do you use online?
There is no way I could remember all the books. I just looked and since April of 2000 I’ve read just over 4K books/comics/etc. I can barely remember what I read last week, much less 20 years ago without a visual aid 😀
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I just go to my index pages of reviews. Like you say, it’s impossible to remember all you’ve read.
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I agree wholeheartedly with the Anne from Persuasion choice. Great character!
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Persuasion is my favorite Austen. It just resonates with me for some reason 🙂
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👑🤦♀️ 🤣
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forced ‘to’ read, surely?
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Isn’t that what I wrote?
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Hahah nice picks! Funny how you got out of the final answer with Crippled God. 😛
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I’d cripple ET if I could!
I did not like that movie. Couldn’t even tell you why. I did come to it in my 20’s instead of younger but still, I didn’t enjoy it all…
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Your last entry left me laughing!
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I really disliked ET when I got around to watching it. I don’t know why, but I suspect the kiddiness of it was not what I was expecting. I was expecting a grown up story that just happened to be about kids. Instead, I got a kids movie 😦
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I like it, but I do agree that it’s a rather childish parable, of the naive, pacifistic, tree-hugging variety.
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Did you see it as a kid or as an adult?
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First as a kid, then later as an adult.
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I was a sucker for super naive stuff like that when I was a kid, though.
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Persuasion as best Austen novel ever – ABSOLUTELY 100% agree now and forever! ❤
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Yep, it’s just the best, isn’t it 😀
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