Why I can't do that Dr. Who meme...

[gurdymonkey]

I have a confession to make to those of you on my friends list who are SF/Fantasy fans.

I used to be one. I really, really did. I cut my teeth on The Hobbit at age 9, and The Once And Future King. I borrowed The Andromeda Strain from my mom at age 12 and ended up getting a very nice letter from Michael Crichton answering a question I had about it. (Said letter was subsequently lost in a move, to my eternal shame. Autograph value be damned, I thought it absolutely rocked that he would write back to me.)  I  inhaled the Heinlein canon  and the  Dune series, I sat up to watch "Silent Runnings" on the late show and sat through the original and dreadful 70's incarnation of "Battlestar Galactica" with bad reception in my dorm room.  Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Farscape - when I could find the blasted thing actually ON - Firefly AFTER it was cancelled, and so forth into the night.

Nowadays? Not so much. I guess my tastes changed.

Early unicorn-hugging tendencies notwithstanding, I have always loved reading about things that were real. Because in with all of the above was Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time, which sent me haring off to the library after Paul Murray Kendall's biography of Richard III. Antonia Fraser on Mary, Queen of Scots. Historical novels by Howard Fast and Mary Renault, with a little John Jakes and James Clavell tossed into the mix.

Reading habits these days tend towards literary classics I've always wanted to get around to from Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, alternating with historical non-fiction. TV viewing consists of movies and cruising PBS and the documentary offerings on TLC, Discovery and so forth.

So if you ask me to quote Dr. Who, I'm at a loss. Lyrics of songs by The Who are another thing entirely.

Comments

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

I've never seen Dr. Who. Not one episode. Ever.

[kareina.livejournal.com]

I'd never even heard of Dr. Who before I moved to Australia. However, I can't claim to never having seen an episode--one was on while I was visiting some SCA folk in Brisbane, so I was a good guest and kept quiet whilst my hosts watched it, and tried not to ask too many questions.

But then I'm a reader, not a TV watcher...

[laurensa.livejournal.com]

And for me, it is one of the few TV shows that HAVE stuck, though I probably distress Classic Who fans by being so distracted by the bad special effects that I lose track of the plot. New Who watching is strongly aided by the fact that David Tennant is smoking hot. Other TV watching is sporadic, at best--I have three little boys, so quiet time is a blessing. I like Dirty Jobs, Mythbusters, and Verminators, but rarely remember to watch them, and I liked Criminal Minds when Mandy Patinkin was the star.

Reading habits--errr, eclectic would be the best description, though again classic SciFi just doesn't float my boat. I've read my husband's baseball and rock music biographies and autobiographies, and I just yesterday finished a re-read of Anne of Green Gables. I found a beautifully bound copy and had to own it.I have Pride and Prejudice on the To Be Read shelf and I just finished reading a history of the Tower of London's menagerie. THAT was a fascinating read.

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

I loved classic Dr. Who, but I am still looking for the time to watch any of the new stuff... I have a very busy life, do it isn't super high on the priority list...

Reading: my tastes are eclectic, my time is... well, as I said. :p Speaking of "tastes", the book I am currently reading is:
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan, which I picked up at Books Inc. Subtitle: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." :D

[moonflake1978.livejournal.com]

I like Dr. Who, I just don't have much time to watch it. Now serenity, firefly, heck yeah. I love it when sci-fi channel does their firefly marathon. I work for Michel Crichton's cousin.