Mainstream fantasy familiarity quotient

[desh]

Alright, I'm just curious how far behind everyone I am. This should be fun...

Oh, and no points unless you actually finished the book/movie.

[Poll #409527]

(As with any poll, you can edit your answers. The link to do so for this one is http://www.livejournal.com/poll/?id=409527&mode=enter.)

Comments

[arcati.livejournal.com]

I started reading more these days, but it never has been much of a hobby for me...I'm a rather visual person.

[rustnroses.livejournal.com]

I gave myself an extra point for reading the first part of RotK, but never getting around to reading part 2. :)

[desh]

Then you're at 18! Fix your score!

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[rustnroses.livejournal.com]

oh...heh. oops. oh well, 15, 18, 19...they all end up about the same.

[ladypeaches.livejournal.com]

this seems like a very limited view of mainstream fantasy.

Hey do we get to find out what three you read/saw?

[desh]

Yeah, click on one of the "view answers" links that appears after you fill it out.

[krisispm.livejournal.com]

I can't decide if your score of three is the LOTR books or the movies, but good god, i hope it's the movies. The books, in my estimible opinion, can be skipped, as no one outside the Fellowship itself should have to slog through that much crap just to get to Helm's Deep.

The Harry Potter movies are somewhat amusing. I am endeavoring to read at least 3/5 of the books on airplanes over the next week, thus increasing my score.

[desh]

As you can see with the other "view answers" links, my score of 3 is 3 of the Harry Potter books.

Besides the LotR books are worth 2 points each. Your score's wrong. (-:

(No, this whole thing wasn't just an experiment in which of my friends can do math....)

[zestifyingagent.livejournal.com]

why, yes, i am an allstar with 19 points.
to be fair, i included among "books ive read" the ones that were read aloud to me (hobbit and lord of the rings) when i was younger, so i guess thats subjective.

[peneli.livejournal.com]

ditto. I eventually read Hobbit for myself, but have only experienced LotR in the read-aloud-by-my-parents version. (although, they did this about every three years with each new kid, so that the last time I listened to them reading it I was like 14-15.)

[zestifyingagent.livejournal.com]

Yeah, same in my family, though I didnt listen the last time around. We *did* at some point get the hobbit as a book on tape, though, for long carrides...so i heard it sometime recently.

[chincotaco.livejournal.com]

More people have read The Hobbit than the Fellowship of the Ring?


(And it's taking everything I've got not to type the über-geeky abbreviations, ie: LotR:tFotR. Damn it! And now my delete key isn't working...)

[burr86.livejournal.com]

And, to elaborate: I've not read or seen any of above, and I really don't plan to. :)

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

You should put something for extended edition of the movies. I've seen 2 Towers EE, but none of the others. [I've seen all the movies in the theatre, and Harry Potter 3 in Israel! Do I get any points for that?]

And how about points for going and seeing it on opening night. And reading the books before the movies were made.

Re: Mainstream fantasy familiarity quotient

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i should amend that i read the tolkien books long, long before the movies were made, and that i read the HP books quite a while after everyone else in my acquaintance had stopped going on about them (and the latter were a gift). :) i also didn't watch any of the movies as first-run; i waited til they were out on video.

i tend to not give a hoot for what the mainstream reads/watche.

[superri.livejournal.com]

Does reading all but the last 100 pages of Return of the King count for anything? The main stories are done, now they're just sharing their adventure stories with each other. I can't bring myself to finish the book quite yet.

[conana.livejournal.com]

Hmm. All 19 points, I've read all the books at least twice, and I /know/ that I am not a LotR geek, because some of my friends are. Oops.