I think it's less that they are things that I think I (or others) need to see to be a geek, and more a list of things that are often enjoyed by geeky folks, and being that I often enjoy geeky things, I will probably enjoy them too. Or whatever.
As for my footnote, I was speaking *entirely* in jest. My relationship with Chris would've failed regardless. His reading Hitchhikers or not has no impact, nor does the book have any actual impact on any of my other relationships.
I do read chick lit on occasion. The most recently read books I can remember are Twilight, which is just about the *definition* of chicklit, Temeraire/His Magesty's Dragon, which is the most hard fantasy book I've read in an age, and Transmetropolitan 0, which is a depressing, cynical...it should be a comic book, but I see 0 as almost more an illustrated series of essays. I'm currently working on "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman" which is an autobiographical collection of stories about Richard P. Feynman, one of the most fabulous people ever to actually walk the Earth, after Joshua A Norton.
The closest thing I have to a box is my predilection for young adult fiction. It's like grown-up fiction except it can't rely on sex and gratuitous violence to sell the story. Larklight, Slave Day, Boy Meets Boy, I am the Messenger, the Clue books...all young adult, all excellent, and come from three different distinct genres --Larklight is steampunk/fantasy/sci-fi, the Clue series is mysteryish, and the other three are high school stories. Boy Meets Boy would quite plausibly pass for chicklit --it's a romance story (and I will defend like mad the fact that it is the best romance I've ever read), and that's not even taking in the whole "girls love gay boys" thing or something.
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As for my footnote, I was speaking *entirely* in jest. My relationship with Chris would've failed regardless. His reading Hitchhikers or not has no impact, nor does the book have any actual impact on any of my other relationships.
I do read chick lit on occasion. The most recently read books I can remember are Twilight, which is just about the *definition* of chicklit, Temeraire/His Magesty's Dragon, which is the most hard fantasy book I've read in an age, and Transmetropolitan 0, which is a depressing, cynical...it should be a comic book, but I see 0 as almost more an illustrated series of essays. I'm currently working on "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman" which is an autobiographical collection of stories about Richard P. Feynman, one of the most fabulous people ever to actually walk the Earth, after Joshua A Norton.
The closest thing I have to a box is my predilection for young adult fiction. It's like grown-up fiction except it can't rely on sex and gratuitous violence to sell the story. Larklight, Slave Day, Boy Meets Boy, I am the Messenger, the Clue books...all young adult, all excellent, and come from three different distinct genres --Larklight is steampunk/fantasy/sci-fi, the Clue series is mysteryish, and the other three are high school stories. Boy Meets Boy would quite plausibly pass for chicklit --it's a romance story (and I will defend like mad the fact that it is the best romance I've ever read), and that's not even taking in the whole "girls love gay boys" thing or something.
~Sor