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[skygiants]

I did the little hundred movies and hundred books game that has been going around various social medias! I tried to make my lists with just the things I could think of not looking at any of my actual reading lists or bookshelves and as a result I am now sitting here thinking of all the things I love and/or have shaped me in some way that I didn't happen to think of while making the specific list and taking -5 HP each time. So it goes. I can't believe I forgot Between Silk and Cyanide. Anyway, if you're not bored with clicking little boxes yet, please do go forth and click mine and let me know how it went!

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[ambyr]

Oh no I also forgot Between Silk and Cyanide! So it goes.

[skygiants]

I THINK ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME except, apparently, the time I was making this list.

[shati]

I didn't actually click because I need to go to bed I'm just here to say WAIT TILL HELEN COMES MENTIONED

[shati]

Okay I got 22. I would have gotten 23 if you'd remembered Wayside!! A truly hilarious number of these were just: oh that's the one I haven't read by this otherwise formative author.

[alias_sqbr]

48% for movies and 34% for books. A few where I went "Ohhhh I forgot about that one but it was great!" like The Silver Pigs.

[skygiants]

I read so many Falco books .... 90% of what I know about Rome comes from the Falco books (and the other 10% from I, Claudius.)

[bookblather]

*slides into your DMs* Hey let's talk about Fullmetal Alchemist and The Perilous Gard.

[skygiants]

LITERALLY ANY TIME

[mific]

39% movies
22% books

[skygiants]

\o/

[sovay]

Anyway, if you're not bored with clicking little boxes yet, please do go forth and click mine and let me know how it went!

Books: 74 of 100, would have been a round 75% if you had not left off Leo Marks. Did we ever talk about Tanya Huff's Fifth Quarter?

Movies: 73 out of 100, I rejoice in the inclusion of Pimpernel Smith. I suspect I wiped out on most pop culture after the turn of the millennium.

[skygiants]

I don't think we HAVE ever talked about Fifth Quarter! But I think about it all the time. Absolute benchmark of delightfully balls-to-the-wall plotting. I could not have imagined a bisexual love quintangle that simultaneously includes reincarnation, incest, selfcest, body-stealing, and a centuries-old zombie master, but that's because I'm not as huge brained as Tanya Huff.

Did I tell you that our old apartment-mate has a Pimpernel Smith speech prepped as his audition number?

[qian]

I got 34% for books, which is lower than I expected! I'm no good at movies so didn't do that one.

[skygiants]

I really enjoyed taking yours and seeing how many of ours were same-author-just-one-off! It's so fun seeing which particular ones everybody picked.

[minutia_r]

I got 32/100 books but like with when I did ambyr's quiz, there were a few where I was like... "Did I read that? Did I start reading that and never finish?" So the real number may be higher. Did not do movies because I don't watch very many movies.

[skygiants]

I also keep having this problem! Everyone putting on Sherlock Holmeses and I know I HAVE read a significant part of the oeuvre, but which part I absolutely could not tell you.

[lacewood]

I got 37% for books and 21% for movies, which is higher than I expected for movies TBH

[skygiants]

both of us have excellent taste in them!

[cyphomandra]

47 for books and man I would love to talk about Otherland. I think it just came out at a he wrong time and slithered between the cracks of critical attention.

[skygiants]

god I LOVED Otherland. I reread the whole thing a few years ago and I really didn't expect it to hold up but to be honest I still loved it just as much. Is it too long? Yes. Is half of it just weird-virtual-universe-of-the-week? for sure. DO I STILL HAVE HUGE EMOTIONS ABOUT ORLANDO AND SAM ABSO FUCKING LUTELY

[landingtree]

27 books, 31 movies! …which is not the way around I expected. Musicals doing a lot of work.

I have had the pictured edition of Summer Will Show on my shelf waiting to be read for YONKS. Given how much I liked Lolly Willowes my not having got around to any others is a crime. The one on the list I’d have been least likely to read without your input (but have read) is To The Chapel Perilous, and would be second to one of the Erskine Lindops if only I’d got around to that one yet.

[skygiants]

I loved Lolly Willows but Summer Will Show is the book that haunts me. Absolutely outsided impact on my psyche, I think about it all the time. (I am very excited to hear your thoughts on the Lindop if/when you get round to it!)

[mrissa]

67 books, did not try movies

[skygiants]

you and Sonya are HANDILY beating out all the competition

[coffeeandink]

61 for books, which is lower than I expected, and 34 for movies, which is higher than I expected.

This combines book collections and clicking and therefore is the perfect meme.

[skygiants]

Still more than twice what I got on yours! I have to go back through your list and take down many, many notes.

[lirazel]

51% for movies--so many good choices!!! But only 28% for the books. But now I have a ton more to add to my to-read list! Yay!


(Lol, Wait Till Helen comes! Scared the bejeesus out of me when I was 9!)

[skygiants]

There was a Wait Till Helen Comes poster that someone had done for a book report in my elementary school and I'd just go stare at it and be scared all over again (in a good way.)

[julian]

59% and 41%. I am way going to use this as additions to my To Read list.

[skygiants]

That's absolutely how I'm using all of these!

[osprey_archer]

I got 40/100 books and 58/100 movies, and it surprised me a little that I did better on movies, but also so many of the movies on your list I haven't seen are ones that I've long MEANT to see. We talked about The Lady Eve recently, and Crimson Peak and Notorious have both languished for years...

[skygiants]

KEEP THE LIST FOR WHEN YOU VISIT

[vcmw]

50/100 on movies and 41/100 on books. Also, so many feelings about Laurence Yep's Dragon of the Lost Sea and Pamela F. Service's Winter of Magic's Return!

[vcmw]

oh! and I have read the first but not the second L J Smith arthurian thing, I did not know there was a second, now I want to read it!

[raven]

27 books! and shockingly, 21 movies, I have literally never seen a movie.

[skygiants]

A couple of people I know are doing album lists and you are doing significantly better on movies than I am on anyone's music. I have literally never listened to an album I think!

(also of the movies that you have never seen you have great taste in them 😎)

[regshoe]

23/100 books, of which one (The Shortest Way to Hades) I literally just finished yesterday :D

[hebethen]

Twins! I dub this confluence "23 & Me" :P

[troisoiseaux]

I got 27 on the books, which was lower than I would have expected, and 26 on the movies, which was somehow higher?? I don't know if I could even come up with 100 movies...

[skygiants]

I was able to come up with 100 books without cheating at all but I did eventually have to sneak some peeks at my recent media list to finish out my 100 movies list. But I stand by all of them!

[nocowardsoul]

19 and a half movies and 16 books. The half is The Sound of Music.

[skygiants]

Did you stop watching Sound of Music halfway through on purpose or on accident? (I know some people prefer to quit before the Nazis show up!)

[ceitfianna]

49 for the movies, though there are some where I've seen partly on tv so I'm not fully counting them. Realizing there are many I want to see. 32 of the books and again seeing many that I'd like to read. I'm also about halfway through your book and loving it, its hitting that right note of lighter and adore the chemistry between Ruthi and Sol.

[skygiants]

aw, thank you so much, I'm so glad you're enjoying it!

[littlerhymes]

48 for movies and 46 for books, p good p good

[skygiants]

great taste >:DDD

[thegreatratsby]

8 books and 17 movies! low key will use this as a reading list, lots of books on there that I've been meaning to get to >:b

[thegreatratsby]

damn scrolling up now i am embarrassed about the books LOL, something something i have a lot to look forward to ??

[cinaed]

Fifty on the books list (someone else who's read Regeneration?!) and sixty-one out of the movies, mostly because we have similar tastes in classics. Now I want to rewatch Talk of the Town and brush off my original novel I was writing that was heavily inspired by Gilda. I still need to watch Johnny Eager though!

[skygiants]

oh you HAVE to watch Johnny Eager, it is a TRIP

(Every WWI novel I've read since Regeneration has suffered through not being Regeneration.)