I only answered the first 13 out of 60 for this meme.

[timepiececlock]

I'm in a meme mood today, it seems.

1. Books You Can Think of That Have Significantly Bettered/Altered Your Life and/or Perspective or Maybe Just Fucked Your Shit Up/Most Memorable Reading Experiences:
Ender's Game. 1984. The Waste Lands. The Hobbit.

2. Books You Found To Be A Big Waste of Time:
Tess of the D'Urbervilles. The Good Earth. Ethan Frome.

3. Movies That Bettered/Altered Your Life and/or Perspective or Maybe Just Fucked Your Shit Up:
No movie has altered my life so far. The LOTR films were orgasmic. Memento, Fight Club, and Donnie Darko fucked my shit up.

4. Movies You Found To Be A Big Waste Of Time
13 Conversations About One Thing. Escaflowne: A Girl In Gaia. X.

5. A Waste of Money You Find To Be Truly Worth Every Penny:
My hair straightener. My ipod mini.

6. A Waste of Money You Know Is a Real Waste of Money, But You Keep Doing It Anyway:
Video Games.

7. A Waste of Money, period:
Any kind of all-in-one food chopper.

8. Things You Do That Make You Feel Really Good, Always:
Baking deserts/sweets/devilled eggs. Drawing. Art museums.

9. Things You Do That Make You Feel Really Bad, Always:
Taking pills of any kind.

10. Compared to other People Your Age/Gender/Whatever You Spend More Money On:
Anime.

11. And Less Money On:
Shoes. Personal grooming.

12. And care more about:
Women's rights. Internet Fandom. Anime.

13. And less about:
Celebrities.

Comments

[jaina.livejournal.com]

This one book in 12th grade by Elizabeth Wharton or something about people in New England 100 years ago with shitty lives. ... all of them assigned to me in school.

Wharton? Edith Wharton? Did you just diss her?

NOW YOU DIE, FOO'.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I might have gotten the name wrong...Did she write a book about a bunch of people in New Englad who were miserable all the time? And they died in a snow sled crash at the end? I hated that book.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

YES!

Ethan Frome.

Hate hate hate.

Total waste of my time. A miserable book about miserable people living miserable lives in a miserably cold place.

Now, her other books might be wonderful, but Ethan Frome was a waste of time.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

I haven't read that one, though I suspect you might not like her others because happiness does not abound. But I'll let you live until you confirm my suspicions.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I don't always need happiness. Like, I've read Steinbeck and found that captivating and horribly heartbreaking. I also enjoyed The Scarlet Letter, in a perverse way. Another sad book. But Ethan Frome just bored me and left me feeling nothing for the characters. I think I have to really like the people if their misery is going to touch me.