Hello,
I'll introduce myself,
I'm Anton (as in TN's brother who was killed in the charge)
or to the non-fictional I'm known as Gavin
I'm 16, a fan of all things Fforde.
I'm a new to the board, well not just this one really, all message boards (exept for a small Stargate one called Ausgate) I have maintained a blog at starwars.com for some time and I decided to take the plunge into a(nother) message board
I am a bit of a Sci-Fi geek (I guess you could guess that from the fact that I pay to write a Star Wars blog)
I was only introduced to the Nextian world about two months ago when I saw Jasper (I'm sure there's some special nickname for him around here, I just havent seen it yet) Interviewed in BookPage for First Among Sequels. The words "Literary Detective" interested me as I had not read a original book in a long time.
I have read all of the TN books and I just finished TBOE and started reading The Fourth Bear.
I am a fan of many things (most of which are British)
Monty Python,Douglas Adams,Star Wars,Harry Potter,Blackadder (or anything with Rowan Atkinson pretty much)
Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright* and Nick Frost, I loved Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, and who could forget DANGER 50,000 VOLTS!
EDIT: Here is a revised list: Women, children, red indians,space men, and a kind of idealised version of the complete Ren..... oh, wait, wrong list.
Firefly, The Office (The BBC version more so than our watered down version) Dad's Army, Vicar of Dibly, The Last Detective, All Creatures Great and Small, Friends (mostly for Chandler), Coupling (kinda goes with Friends, being almost the same show and all) Passport to Europe,I'm a sucker for Travel Channel stuff, Guess which country I liked the best....
The Thin Blue Line "I'm and Alien, Get Used to it!", I actualy laughed harder at the 'Allo allo allo! from Goody just before that joke. The only downside to Brit TV that I see is that they are so short, I felt bad breaking the news to my Dad that that was, in fact, the final episode of The Thin Blue Line <shakes head to get the theme song to stop playing>
My fear subsided slightly when I first found out that what is called a "series" over in the U.K is a "season" to the U.S, its not the entirety of the show
Also the BBC, or to be specific, BBC DVD's, I dont get cable so I have not seen the BBC for real but my library have a few BBC productions including Jane Eyre!
Oh, and if you can find it, Rowan Atkinson Live is Amazing!
And Finaly, the great Terry Pratchett
Actualy I found Terry because of Jasper, I was looking around the shelves of my local public library for a TN audiobook and I grabbed The Colour of Magic to try it out and loved it, when I went back to get another audiobook I turned around and right there at eye level was a long, colorful sea of Discworld novels down an entire shelf, i've been reading Fforde and Terry simultaniously ever since.
Well, this was a fun first post. I hope to do many more ( and maybe some of them will have actual meaning to them :D )
*Possible Vyrus attack
Happy Blogging... oops...
Happy Posting everyone!
Anton
AKA Gavin
AAKA Darthcharlie32 at [
blogs.starwars.com]
Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 11/02/2007 01:25AM by Anton.