Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: Nerd Test  (Read 7047 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Cyberus

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2003
  • Posts: 5696
    • Show all replies
Re: Nerd Test
« on: March 17, 2004, 09:35:33 PM »
28.6% to 1dp
Sheesh, and I hate Star Wars, have never read Hitchikers Guide (but saw the series as a kid), don't play PC games, haven't played AD&D for years....
How'd I do so well? Lucky guesses?

When I'm on my deathbed, I'll be wishing I had less sex, smoked less weed, drank less beer, read less and instead played more computer games, did more role-playing and watched more dodgy sci-fi :-P

Sarcasm aside, I really enjoyed role-playing when I was younger, even though the campaigns we always started were soon abandoned....perhaps on my deathbed I *will* be wishing I'd done more roleplaying....hmm, perhaps there's a way of combining the roleplaying and the sex ;-)

I like Amigas
 

Offline Cyberus

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2003
  • Posts: 5696
    • Show all replies
Re: Nerd Test
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2004, 10:01:41 PM »
I was being sarcastic Eyso!

In truth though, I wish I *had* smoked less weed - then I would have done better at university, I wish I *had* drunk less beer - then I wouldn't have got into so much debt at university. Other than that - MORE sex and MORE books! :lol: But hey, I'm only 25....!

edit: Someday I'll have to join you for a beer Eyso, beer seems so appealing again, the way you talk about it!
I like Amigas
 

Offline Cyberus

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2003
  • Posts: 5696
    • Show all replies
Re: Nerd Test
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2004, 10:59:49 PM »
Quote

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
Quote

 I wish I *had* drunk less beer - then I wouldn't have got into so much debt at university.
ehm, okay, but... I can't forget many a time like that *sigh*

I also have many good memories. But it was so expensive, and if you do something too much, it becomes less enjoyable.

Quote

Other than that - MORE sex and MORE books! :lol: But hey, I'm only 25....!
Well, about that first thing, I dunno, probably, but I am not really suitable for that I think.
[/quote]
Nonsense! I don't think anyone is 'suitable' especially.

Quote

About that second part, couldn't agree more,  Btw, Cyberus, WHAT kind of books? :-) (I can reccomend Gormenghast, actually)

Well, I own over 500 non-reference books, and I think I have probably read only half of them! I have a big stack beside my bed, and a big list in my head of books I want to read.

My favourite writers are George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aldous Huxley and Joseph Heller (if only he had written more) but I would like to read more Tennessee Williams, Joseph Conrad and a lot of the American 'beat' writers [I have only read two Kerouac novels - he *is* overrated, but still good despite that].

I really like what I have read of 19th C French writers, particularly Guy de Maupassant (A breath of fresh air from the stuffy Victorian writers of the time here in Britain!) and Voltaire's 'Candide' is a masterpiece IMO (although not 19th C!). Kafka bored me when I read him as a teenager, but I think he deserves a revisit - I read Metamorphosis recently and liked that. Graham Greene is another that I like, but I have only read some of his shorter stories. I thought that James Joyce was overrated drivel, but again, perhaps I should look again.

Gormenghast trilogy is something I've been meaning to read - I've heard good things about it. I haven't ever been too keen on fantasy, despite the best efforts of some of my friends. I even have a signed copy of David Gemmel's first book.

I go through phases with authors/scenes whereby I read everything I can by an author before moving into a different phase. My first major phase was a Dostoevsky one, then Orwell, then back to Russians again with Chekov and Gogol, and now I'm in the middle of a French phase. I'm rereading Candide, this time in French and also Camus' L'etranger. I tried reading l'age du raison in French, but it was FAR too difficult! Reading Sartre in English is bad enough!

The problem I have is that I read more than one book at a time, as I'm not always in the mood to read a particular book. So I'll have three or four books on the go, and some of them will take months to finish. I have been reading 'The Devils' by Dostoevsky since November 2002!!! I tend to 'dip into' books, which is why I like short stories (I LOVE Sherlock Holmes stories, as they are perfect bedtime length) and poetry.

Sorry, you didn't ask for a rant, but you did ask what kind of books!
By the way, EVERYONE should read Dostoevsky's 'Notes From the Underground' - a real life-changing experience IMHO!
I like Amigas
 

Offline Cyberus

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2003
  • Posts: 5696
    • Show all replies
Re: Nerd Test
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2004, 01:37:57 PM »
Quote

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

Quote

Gormenghast trilogy is something I've been meaning to read - I've heard good things about it. I haven't ever been too keen on fantasy, despite the best efforts of some of my friends. I even have a signed copy of David Gemmel's first book.
David Gemmel? Gormenghast is written by Mervyn Peake I thought. Gormenghast isn't really fantasy, rather surrealism, everything is physically possible, no monsters, no magic. To me, the books are unlike anything I've ever read. The style of writing is sometimes chaotic and fast (in terms of happenings), then it is slowly describing every detail of the weird environment, it describes with many details the weird (yet recognisable :-)) characters.


Yes it is written by Mervyn Peake, I was just lumping it together with fantasy - which is probably a little hasty. I remember reading a passage from Titus Groan for my English GCSE exam (standard exam we take at 16), and I liked what I read then.
I like Amigas