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[ismenin]

You're Les Miserables!

by Victor Hugo

One of the best known people in your community, you have become
something of a phenomenon. People have sung about you, danced in your honor, created all
manner of art in your name. And yet your story is one of failure and despair, with a few
brief exceptions. A hopeless romantic, you'll never stop hoping that more good will come
from your failings than is ever possible. Beware detectives and prison guards bearing
vendettas.


Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

this made me laugh so much - i did it twice cos there was one question i could answer either way. the other selection was james joyce's ulysses! yes, well, says a lot about me, i spose. wordy, pretentious and obtuse!

as for les mis, i could not finish the book - it was so damned sad. if there were two books i would not like to take onto a desert island these two would be the choice of what to leave behind. why, then, did this thingy choose them for me? beats me! i wouldn't have minded watership down or the secret garden, or even the famous five go hunting mushrooms, if lieu of something decent - but these two? hell will freeze over before i read em! so, if it says i'm them - do not believe it!

what would i choose for my desert island if i could have only six? hm. have to think about that one. ;D

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/saura_/]

I've tried to read Ulysses twice, and I just can't. Never try The Misserables, but for what you say, it doesn't look like something I'll enjoy reading. So I guess I'm going to go on reading Inca, that's a really good novel. You know it? *grins*

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

aw, thanks, love. it's the kind of book i like, too! hugses xxx

[lyrastar77.livejournal.com]

I have never read Les Mis (sounds way too sad!), though I *have* read some Joyce (perhaps whilst we were having the stream-of-consciousness style explained to us).

the famous five go hunting mushrooms

OMG, I so used to love the Famous Five! A couple of years back I found an old FF novel for about 10p on a secondhand bookstall. Shortly afterwards when I had 'flu I spent the whole day in bed re-reading that book -- and I *still* remembered some of the characters names etc (without looking).

Hey, maybe we could start a new fandom! Why has no-one thought of slashing, erm ... well I guess it would have to be Dick & George! (Though it wouldn't quite count as slash I suppose ...) Ooops, though maybe not. I guess it would go against the LJ TOS!!

;-D

~Lyra

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

The Famous Five, and the Secret Seven. Lovely!

Although, looking back, Blyton was a rabid racist, I had a lot of pleasurable times as a child, reading her books. My fave of all time - i still have a copy - was The Valley of Adventure, together with secret cave behind the waterfall. Hmmm, might put that in Inca, who knows? giggles. xxx

[frolijah-fan-54.livejournal.com]

Well the first part - about you being a phenomenon - is sure true!! You DO have lots of people singing your praises!! But not the second part.

I did read Les Miserables, but not Ulysses. Interesting - I'll have to give this a try this weekend when I have time. Thanks!!

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

I do like happy books! Les Mis, whilst a true classic, doesn't do it for me.

And I get tired with Joyce's streams of consciousness. although interesting, it is a difficult read. Give me something plain and simple, please! xxx

[mole-caz.livejournal.com]

The romantic part is true.... ;)
Never read Les Mis but loved the stage show and saw it twice. The Secret Garden was a childhood classic of mine brought to life by a classmate. We always had a 'class book' on the go in English Lit lessons which was read allowed by the teacher and any pupils she thought capable of not stumbling over too many words. One girl came from Yorkshire and so she was asked to do all the Yorkshire dialogue [Dicken?] passages and she was brilliant!

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

i do love books, I have cases and shelves of them in four rooms in this house. If I thought they wouldn't steam, they'd be in the bathroom, too!

I enjoy a well-written children's book as much as an adult one. TSG is very well done. And, although not so well written, I love Harry Potter cos it's a rattling good yarn. ;D xxx

[mole-caz.livejournal.com]

'allowed' should read 'aloud' - grief my brain is quite scrambled at the moment!!!!!

[slipperieslope.livejournal.com]

But that is one of my very favorite books!

((hugs))

And the musical isn't shabby either!

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

shows how different we all are, doesn't it? hugses too xxx

[slipperieslope.livejournal.com]

Yes, it does but I still think if you had made it to the end... I guess its the little things that stuck with me along the way. Jean Valjean with his big boots unknowingly on the child's penny and the little fellow crying heartbroken and poor Jean Valjean so bewildered. Until he moved from thr bench and saw the money and realized what had happened and he could not make restitutuion and felt so terrible. And I, the reader realized that anyone could do wrong and still be innocent of intent... I just love this book.

And the musical... Michael Ball!!!

*le sigh*

But this is what maked the world go round!

*squashes impulse to discuss 'Ulysses'*

But the secret is to read "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" first ; )

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

Yes, I liked that book. Odd isn't it?

And I liked the songs of les mis, but that's all. :D xxx

vive le difference!

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

la. giggles

[angharad001.livejournal.com]

This is me, dearest Issi . . . er . . . might be just a little bit right in places ;)

*Hugs and smooches*

You're Pale Fire!

by Vladimir Nabokov

You're really into poetry and the interpretation thereof. Along the
road of life, you have had several identity crises which make it very unclear who you
are, let alone how to interpret poetry. You probably came from a foreign country, but
then again you seem foreign to everyone in ways unrelated to immigration. Most people
think you're quite funny, but maybe you're just sick. Talking to you ends up being much
like playing a round of the popular board game Clue.


Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

Now that book I wouldn't have minded. ;D cos that's me, too. xxx

[angharad001.livejournal.com]

Dear Issi,

Of course that's you (You are the guru and the goddess) . . . and it's why I love you so much :)

You just have to answer all the questions wrong ;) to get the right answer: though I think your original Les Mis (I've read the book!) was quite a good fit :)

And I did come from somewhere else to Aus!!! And I am a little bit sick. And I do like poetry more than anything.

*Hugs and Kisses*

*Best Hugs*

XXXXXX