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[muji]

From kali921: Does your character read for fun? What sorts of books/plays do they like?

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[shecalledmefred.livejournal.com]

Paul reads damn near everything but tends to like books with "social problem" tendencies. Anyway, it's not just like he reads for fun. He has to do it for his job. ;p

[muji]

This is true. *pats Paul*

[sdelmonte]

Kirk has wide ranging tastes, and might read a classic of Terran literature, Vulcan poetry in translation, recent biography, history, or contemporary escapist fare. Like all Starfleet officers, he's fond of Shakespeare. He doesn't get to read as often as he likes, though.

Knox likes spy novels, detective novels, and other lightweight materials. He'll also read a good sports book. He hasn't been to the theater in ages, and never for serious plays.

Dean O'Dell, being a former lit professor, has eclectic tastes as well, but tends to be very critical even of genre works. He takes more pleasure in critiquing a work than reading it. He is fond, however, of the writers of the 1920s and 1930s, especially Hemingway and Fitzgerald. He also likes the more thoughtful works on sports by such figures as George Will and Joyce Carol Oates. He used to go into LA a few times a year to catch a play, and is partial to Arthur Miller.

Gibbs is functionally illiterate, and would never think of reading as something you do for fun. He is somewhat familiar with Shakespeare, but knows little otherwise of the legitimate theater.

[muji]

But Gibbs is a great master of the oral storytelling tradition!

[irredeemableant.livejournal.com]

Eric's not much of a reader. And Stark's from a different planet.

...wow, my answer is boring.

[muji]

What would be like, punishment, for Eric to be made to read?

[naelwyn.livejournal.com]

Revan tends to read a lot of news feeds, as well as anything that has to do with the Sith or Jedi or The Force in general (especially theories, he loves theories on the Force), and sometimes he'll steal Kira's reports from the Jedi Enclave to read. Also baby books! And parenting guides!

[camwyn]

Wells doesn't generally read for fun unless he's on the road or deployed somewhere. He quite liked the Sharpe novels. Most of his fiction reading tends to be of the historical sort, and he generally prefers nonfiction. Annie's fond of poetry, and I think she likes Dickens.

Ray is a geek like you wouldn't believe- or rather, like you would, since I've been playing him long enough. He reads a lot of science fiction and comic books, and he's also really really fond of nonfiction books about fringe science. Note that in his world the big comic book companies are DC and Timely.

Bumblebee reads anything he can download.

The Great Librarian reads everything. Everything. It's what his race does. If they're not reading it, they're writing it or analyzing it.

Whistler prefers music for his entertainment, but he has a respectable Braille library.

Gordon likes hard SF and the science fiction classics, but he gets more of his entertainment from reading about science outside his own field, and from reading bicycling magazines (and trying not to laugh at the road bike people).

[lienne.livejournal.com]

Tilda and Gord should talk sci-fi sometime. :D

[lienne.livejournal.com]

Raz: Doesn't read.

Tilda: Reads EVERYTHING and loves it all, but specifically has a special place in her heart for classical literature. By which I mean "written some number of centuries ago in a language now effectively dead".

Imriel: ...I'll have to think about this one...

[whisper2ascream.livejournal.com]

Draco: Millicanon I had him getting interested in some muggle books, like military history, The Prince (is anybody surprised?), also potions books, other wizarding literature on occasion. Lately he would studying up on economy and trade deals.

Nathan: Usually newspapers (canon), occasional book on politics or law, history. He'd also like magazines and books on airplanes, and another for military history.

Truman: Books on exploration (canon), he also glances over his copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide on occasion. Rarely some newspapers. He only got women's magazines in canon to find sections of faces to put together Sylvia's likely face from memory.

Aramis: The Bible of course, also poetry and literature of 17th century France.

Johnny Smith: Textbooks that would be useful for his students, also books and magazines relating to science (serious science geek here), also newspapers and articles from his world (to place on his wall about Stillson [canon])

Kate Bishop: Her textbooks from Hawthorne Academy, even though she has photographic memory. Also some Arthurian literature, fairy tales, martial arts, and she's also been on the lookout on books to help Will with reading.

[whisper2ascream.livejournal.com]

Venkman: Psychology books, trade journals and the like, newspapers to keep track of media coverage of the 'Busters. Also sports pages, and magazines. Also some parenting books too.

More on Johnny: The Smith residence in canon had a lot of books around so he probably reads a wide amount, also again being a high school teacher, he'd need a good grounding in several subjects for substitute teaching.

[nomorekaraoke]

Wow. Very good question.

Gabriel doesn't really need to read things, but he will occasionally have a cuppa someplace and read one or a hundred of his favourite biblical texts.

Lorne is...well, not quite as easy. He'll make a witty remark loaded with pop culture and/or classical references any day, but canonically, I think you only see him reading a book once. And I don't think you can make out the title.

I can tell you what he doesn't like, though. Andrew Lloyd Webber.

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... That is so applicable.

[aberration]

Elle reads what's available to her, which pretty much means whatever's in her father's library (Classical literature, encyclopedias, etc.), Company files, and store catalogs. She doesn't always retain a lot of what she reads - this isn't entirely her fault. In particular, I did like the idea of her reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Mei can't read, but she likes it when her parents or sister read to her.

Jim... probably watches too much tv instead of reading. Though I could see him reading popular fiction on occasion.

Behrooz... will probably read whatever's put in front of him. Really. This has happened, he's not all that picky.


Oh, and I have a DE topic suggestion! What does your character's name mean, and how do you identify that with the character?

[muji]

MALCOLM MEANS 'SERENITY' IN VULCAN.

THEREBY SOLIDIFYING JOSS WHEDON'S GEEKDOM FOREVER.

[mogget_cat]

Yrael occasionally sneaks away with books that other people have left in the bar room. He'll read anything, really, anything he doesn't already know.

Zelgadiss tends to seek out old tomes and grimoires in his ongoing quest to find a way back to his human body.

The Black Rider rarely reads, unless he finds some use in it.

[candied-rabbit.livejournal.com]

Momiji is far from the most literary person in the world, but he does read for fun. It's somewhere above video games and below violin in the stuff he does when he's stuck on the Sohma estate without visitors.

As for what he reads - I figure he’s sort of eclectic. On one hand, the majority of his recreational reading is probably pop culture – manga (usually the type more geared towards young girls than the type geared towards boys), adventure novels, that sort of thing. On the other, he does occasionally delve into the more serious side of things. Being an immense fanboy for German culture, he’s tried reading the German classics.

And, at the moment, Villiers has got him reading Catullus, which I figure he <3’s because of all of the emotions involved.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Wasn't this my topic suggestion? :-)

She-Hulk obviously does a huge amount of reading for a living. Her ability to read, comprehend, and do interesting things with massive amounts of information is her livelihood as an attorney. But on top of that, she's a law and current affairs junkie - she reads a ton of law journals, histories of the Supreme Court, legal theory, investigative journalism, books about the changing nature of the global economy, international trade, etc. She reads the International Herald Tribune and The Economist for fun.

She's also addicted to Vanity Fair and has a weakness for 19th century romances. Oh, and she likes reading satire! She also reads her own comic book, as do a lot of other heroes in the Marvelverse. (Meaning, Captain America used to read his own comic and also The Avengers, the Fantastic Four glance at their own book to see how well the writers are doing, etc.)


Hawkgirl. Well, in Kendra's mind, she doesn't have a whole lot of time for reading, but she actually winds up reading a lot. She reads a lot of art, film, and archaeology periodicals (Film Threat, yo, when it was still published as a glossy), biographies of artists and filmmakers, books on plant care, you name it, Kendra probably has read it or wants to read it. She just finished an excellent biography of Luis Bunuel.

Lockjaw thinks reading is all well and fine, but why read when you can hang out with the Uatu the Watcher and have him read to you instead?

[timjr.livejournal.com]

See, now I'm picturing Uatu reading Lockjaw those 'Spot' kids' books...

[cheevy.livejournal.com]

YES.

ANYTHING.

EVERYTHING.

ESPECIALLY IS THERE ARE DRAGONS.

:D!!!

[pheliskougra]

Hi Steph! I did my good deed of the day: tracked down all of Ben's duplicated tags and cleaned them off, leaving just 'Ben (Loserz)' for him. Also, I deleted all of his non-tagged EP's, hope that clears up some Milliways' database.

Ben Winchester, like a good nerd, likes Star Wars EU, Lord of the Rings and suchlike. No Harry Potter as of yet.

The Devil likes to read Souls... but really, anything will do.

Ryu Hayabusa likes classics, books with meanings and messages, but will not turn down any reading material he did not try yet.

CJ reads mostly newspapers (two a day).

Ravin Lichvell likes arcane tomes, but will try everything at least once.

[mm_madb]

Suzi - Loves to read. She'll read anything in Whistler's library, and anything suggested...and if she enjoys it, she translates it into Braille for Whistler.

Spoon - Adores reading. Because it's a human thing. He's a geek, and loves SF&F, but he's got the complete works of Shakespeare memorized (thanks to Geoffry Tennant in-bar). Spooney will, has, and does go so far as to read the dictionary.

Sir Nicholas - Reads tactical manifestos, history, and about other worlds.

Lissar - Reads repair manuals and game strategy guides when she is reading for pleasure...but would really rather be working than reading. She likes to do things.

Kitty - Isn't a geek, but had a relationship with one, once. She's read a lot of SF&F, but when you get right down to it...she likes romance novels. Mostly the funny ones, that show a life she'll never, ever get to have.

[ostro_goth]

Asar-Suti reads: for fun, about magic, about gardening, novels, abstruse subjects, almost anything that's a book.

Tower doesn't read, except his tarot cards. There is nothing he could read anywhere that he doesn't know already. Observing people is much more fun.

Teja reads on a need-to-know basis. Books are information; reading for entertainment doesn't even occur to him.

[politestpirate.livejournal.com]

Wellard certainly does read. Asides from stacks of research and reference books (mostly relating somehow to flying), he rather likes action novels. Amy gave him a copy of the Scarlet Pimpernel ages ago, and I know he's picked up Kipling in the bar as well. If the Tom Clancy novels weren't so heavy on technological things at times, he'd prolly enjoy those- and I know there's quite a few other books Wellard would love, if they wouldn't be canon puncturing, alas.

For enjoyment, Laini reads manga. >_> Some of it has rather influenced how she thinks of things on Earthside- specially when you get to social areas that are far from the normal circles she moves in. (At an Anime Con, she does great! Smalltown rural America... not so much.)

Svava doesn't read much for enjoyment- her reading and writing skills are still a bit shaky. When she does, though- she rather likes myths and fairy tales.

[skidmo]

Teyla is still sort of in the learning to read English stage, though she has picked it up extremely quickly. She's read the Harry Potter books and several other YA type Earth books, but she doesn't do a whole lot of reading for fun. She prefers more active forms of recreation.

Lorne is a bit of a closet geek, and he has a thing for graphic novels. He'll read anything ever published by Neil Gaiman, and anything on the artier side of comics. But in general, he prefers other activities as well.

[genarti]

Ooh, interesting topic!

River reads... well, she'll read anything, but what she reads a lot of by choice are physics and math journals. She'll also read poetry and religious texts, but, uh, those she edits as she goes. With copious marginalia and crossings-out to correct the text to "make sense" by her lights. (Canon!) She grew up with Shakespeare by millicanon, and a lot of fiction (Tolkien's millicanon too, along with a bunch of other stuff), but I'm not sure how much of either she reads nowadays. Not much unless someone suggests it to her, I think.

Lan says, what is this "fun" you speak of? That said, canonically he knows a great deal of poetry. (Robert Jordan cheerfully stole some samurai etc stuff for Borderlands culture.) Also history, philosophy, etc. He believes in being well-informed, both in general and in the specific realm of anything likely to become useful. In the bar, this includes a fair amount of information about London Below, various Earths, etc, because Lan does not like to be ignorant about his surroundings or the things that have important influence on the people around him.

Regan reads quite a lot. In the evenings, she likes to unwind with a fiction book or a serial novel, or an interestingly written history. Mostly these books are on the more realistic fiction side, but she'll give anything recommended to her as well-written a try.

Piotr draws for relaxation more than reading, but he reads too. Fiction in both English and Russian, and poetry. And whatever his friends recommend to him, he'll give a try. Most of what he reads is more by way of escapism than books that Address The Hard Questions Of Our Day -- he gets enough of that in his daily life. (Not tons of SF/fantasy, though, I think. It just doesn't especially appeal to him.) Probably anything to do with farming is something he'd find interesting too, fiction or not, and of course art and art history.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Let's see. Going by memory, it's 616 canon that Piotr's mentioned Karamzin, Bulgakov, Gorky, Kozma Prutkov, Goncharov, Akhmatova, Voloshin, Bely, and Zinaida Gippius, along with all the usual heavyweights that are more familiar to Western readers. This only confirms in my mind that Piotr has excellent taste.

[ever_lovin]

Ben reads mostly comics and sports magazines. Contrary to his "bruiser" image, he will pick up the occasional Popular Mechanics, Discover or Scientific American. He will read the book a movie is based on if he liked the movie well enough.

Loki will read anything that will hold her attention long enough. Any arcane book will do that until she decides it is either useless tripe, something she already knows or is something that is useless.

Emperor Norton reads any newspaper He can get His hands on but not many books. He has a city in His stewardship after all, no time, no time.

[ever_lovin]

I thought of a Daily Entertainment question:
"What about your pup is challenging to write?"

[tragic_mask]

Heh. Melpomene likes tragedies of all sorts.

[rowanberries.livejournal.com]

*Grins* Well. Havelock reads technical assassining manuals, because he's boring that way.

Harth... anything esoteric and containing dangerous rituals. He also discovered Machiavelli in the bar.

Jack reads detective novels. He likes the bit at the end where the detective explains everything cleverly, and longs, one day, to be able to do one of those speeches. Unfortunately, Torchwood doesn't really have whodunnit plots. Just all the sex and violence in the world. Le sigh.

Shelley likes old fashioned stories - greek myths, fairy tales. Unfortunately she has a tendancy to think of the latter as gospel truth.

Nico likes monster stories. The creepier the better.

And Ducky? Doesn't read.

[gorgonfondness]

Homestar tries to read, and sometimes he does think it's fun, but most of what he reads falls under the category of computer words or nutritional information. He will surprise you with the occasional random, obscure fact that could only have been found in a book, but this was likely read to him while hang gliding or barefoot trick water skiing or something that makes it more interesting than just reading, thus aiding his memory.

Mia, in canon, is considered one of the most voracious readers in her entire city and, due to the small amount of libraries in Lunar, likely the world. There are only three people in canon who are known to have read more than her: Ghaleon, Damon the Keeper of Knowledge, and Lemia Ausa. In Millicanon, she's been reading a lot of Earth books. Mostly poetry, Robin Hood stories, and Arthurian legend.

Farley has more important things to do than read in a city where everyone is so wrapped up in television that they live in the studio. The only things he reads are scripts and the ratings.

[herdivineshadow]

Guy doesn't read much. In Bar, he's read a book about William Marshall - a somewhat contemporary of his time.

When he has time though, there's the odd bit of poetry, mostly epics, and histories/biographies. With the odd tale of romance thrown in when no one is looking.

He has a soft spot for the story of Tristan and Iseult.

Incidentally, Guy reads in Norman french rather than English. It's also the language he tends to write in.

Frank also reads biographies, but tends to favour a nice shallow red-top newspaper over breakfast.

Steerpike doesn't read. Yet.

Kohl reads NME on ocassion for a giggle otherwise there's an odd crime-thriller now and again. He more of a listening to music person.


Tara likes romance novels, serious newspapers and fashion magazines. I've never really thought about what Devi might read.

[mrmoneypenny.livejournal.com]

Villiers reads most things. Especially classical poetry in some form or shape, be it Latin or Middle English. Horace is probably his favourite overall, although Catullus amuses him and Ovid's good for his mythical retellings. Vergil gets tiring after a while, and on a completely different note, Chaucer is love.