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[skygiants]

I have perhaps an unfair prejudice against the novel Frankenstein. I understand that it is a very important book in terms of the development of half the science fiction tropes in the world, and that it is really even very good for having been written by a nineteen-year-old who had been spending all her time hanging out with Byron, Shelley, and her crazy Byron-stalking stepsister. The trouble is that every time I read the book I find myself incapable of stifling the impulse to beat Victor Frankenstein repeatedly and consistently over the head with a stick. I have a hard time thinking of a fictional character who inspires me more to violence. Even my dislike of West pales by comparison.

Actually, if I had not been reading for school, I could probably have had a lot of fun playing a Frankenstein drinking game. Every time Victor describes himself as suffering more than anyone else in the history of ever, one sip; every time someone else describes Victor as being noble or godlike, two sips; every time Victor gets someone killed by sitting anxiously on his hands, drain the glass!

And now I am curious: o my flist, what other books would make for fabulous drinking games? Go!

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[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

The Bourne Identity.

Just drinking every time Jason has an existential crisis because HEZ A KILLER OH NOES will give you alcohol poisoning by the halfway mark.

[skygiants]

Oh man. I have not read, but I saw the movie, and just filling in the blanks where the movie puts Significant Silences . . . yeah.

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

I haven't finished it yet. I plan to in the future. I fully expect that, in the future, I will headdesk over it as much as I did when I was still reading it.

ANGST: UR DOIN IT WRONG

[agonistes]

The Virginian, by Owen Wister. Every time the narrator, who self-admittedly knows approximately jack shit about the West, moralizes in an aside to the reader about the West and what it can teach us about how to be GOOD REPUBLICANS AMERICANS?

...well. You would drink your way through a case of whiskey.

[skygiants]

It's no fun if you're too trashed to continue by five chapters in!

[shati.livejournal.com]

Three words: Piers fucking Anthony.

[skygiants]

TERROR

[jothra]

That's just asking for a case of alcohol poisoning.

[genarti]

...I hate you.

Edit: In a similar vein -- and I am so sorry for that pun but I couldn't think of a good synonym -- Anne Rice.

[skygiants]

*thwaps*

But what are the rules!

[genarti]

It has been a while, and memories are mercifully blurred.

Every time anything is improbably and disturbingly sexual? That's the Alcohol Poisoning Ho! version, I think.

[minkhollow]

Last Harry Potter book: every time someone other than the title character saves the day, take a drink.
Also, The Old Man and the Sea. One drink for every passing thought of Joe DiMaggio, and a whole bottle of something at the end. (I did not finish the book. Just. ARGH.)

[skygiants]

*gigglefits* I would play that game. And it will probably be translatable to the last Harry Potter movie, too!

(*wry* I did. Oh, eighth grade assigned reading.)

[vivien]

*giggles* Mary Shelley was into man pain. HEH.

[skygiants]

She REALLY was. (Which . . . possibly explains a lot about her marriage. Another fun fact: Percy Shelley threatened suicide so she would elope with him!)

And, you know, normally I am fine with manpain, but I prefer it at least a little bit counterbalanced with something else!

[vivien]

Oh those wacky Romantics, all hopped up on laudanum and histrionics. *snorts*

[skygiants]

Seriously, it is only a matter of time before The Romantics becomes the new HBO drama.

[vivien]

I'd watch. Byron was hot and unstable. MY FAVORITE FICTIONAL TYPE.

[ashen_key]

ME TOO!

It would be awesomely fun.

[i-open-doors.livejournal.com]

Ooo, ooo! Anita Blake:

-One sip for every grammatical error.
-One shot for every new sexual partner.
-Drain the glass every time someone whines about how much their life sucks.

[skygiants]

. . . this begs the question: there are more new sexual partners than people whining about how much their life sucks? *giggling* That is an impressive ratio!

[(Anonymous)]

...I think so. Which is sad.
Actually, I think it may be even. We can throw in this too:
-One shot for every time Anita moans that she's "wet and tight". *EYEROLL*

Did you hear that the author actually put up a poll to her "fans" to choose the next person that Merry would sleep with? *singsong* Issues...

[skygiants]

. . . . clearly next it will be a reality tv show! "Who Wants To Sleep With Merry Gentry", winner gets lots of fictional sex.

[i-open-doors.livejournal.com]

Oops...that was me again. Stupid LJ...

[avariel-wings.livejournal.com]

I can remember being forced to watch several versions of Frankenstein on film when I was at uni. Including one where the class - all girls - got diverted into a half-hour discussion of Henri Clerval's hair, because it was more interesting than anything else about the film.

[skygiants]

. . . oh dear. *laughing* To be fair, Henri Clerval is probably the most likable character in the book! He is the ONLY ONE who is never emo. I like that in a man. *pats him*

Do you remember which version that was? *curious*

[avariel-wings.livejournal.com]

I'm... not sure. The one with Kenneth Branagh, possibly, but it might not have been.

[skygiants]

I'm not sure - with the one with Kenneth Branagh, I think we were all too busy gaping at Kenneth Branagh and Robert De Niro wrestling in placebo fluid to worry about anyone's hair.

[furikku.livejournal.com]

THAT FUCKING BOOK

Vic is all, "O WOE IS ME ;_; ;_; ;_;" and I am all, "GODDAMMIT, BOY, WHY HAVE YOUR PARENTS NOT TAUGHT YOU RESPONSIBILITY?!

"PS: JUST DON'T GIVE HER A UTERUS YOU STUPID JERK YOU COULD HAVE PREVENTED ALL OF THIS!"

Also:
http://www.katebeaton.com/Site/History_Project_files/shelley.jpg

[skygiants]

I KNOW! AUGH!!! And the whole scene where he is like, 'And then Justine was condemned to death because I didn't even try to make up a plausible story to save her. AND I FELT TEN TIMES MORE MISERABLE ABOUT IT THAN SHE DID, SO THERE!'

And then I stomped on his face. (In my imagination only, alas.)



. . . omg that is AWESOME. Because it is TRUE. *cracks up*