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

[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.