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Is there a book, TV show, etc. that you haven't read/watched in years, but still feel passionate about? Why?

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Loads :)
Although I can't think of things easily - but yuletide has got me rereading (and rewatching) a lot of things over the last two years. Things will remind me of something and then I can go on about it. :D

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morethanpasta

I look forward to hearing about it when you remember :) I understand not being able to think of something spontaneously, that happens to me all the time as well if I have to list my favorite somethings.

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morethanpasta

I'm going to cheat and name two.

It's been a couple of years since my reading my way through the Discworld novels led me to Night Watch, but I think it's one of the best books I've ever read. It's such a change from the usual Discworld novels, far more straight-out political and darker, even world-weary and a bit cynical towards the end, but really, I think it's one of the best fantasy books there are. If I ever get to re-reading some favorites, it'll be on my list.

It's been even longer since I read or watched Gundam Wing, I got into it 2002. I hadn't thought about Gundam Wing in years but then it came up in a conversation with

ultharkitty a couple of months ago and it hit me like a ton of bricks how much I love this show. Ever since then, I haven't been able to shake it off again. Duo Maxwell's "I never saw any miracles, but I sure saw a lot of dead people" is as iconic for me as Harper's "the universe hates you. Deal with it."

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Oooh, Discworld! :)

That is a series that I haven't reread in a while - although I've read most of the new books as I got them, although I'd been listening to the audio book of Mort recently. Night Watch is the one where Vimes goes back into his past? I remember it as being amazing - but can't actually remember the details. Carpe Jugulam was my favourite for ages because I really liked the fact that it addressed the question of what happens to the traditional coven of witches when they move on in life. I really should re-read the whole series! :D

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Carpe Jugulam! Oh! That reminds me, I need to finish that. I had started listening to the audio book when I was sick, but then I got better, life went back to being busy and I forgot. I usually don't have the patience for audio books, sitting still and doing nothing but listen to a tape is very hard for me. I loved the 2/3 of it that I listened to, though.

Yeah, Night Watch is where he goes back to the past and is pulled into a revolution against the corrupt, people-torturing government, which ends up with everyone being disillusioned of revolution.

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Carpe Jugulam! Oh! That reminds me, I need to finish that. I had started listening to the audio book when I was sick, but then I got better, life went back to being busy and I forgot. I usually don't have the patience for audio books, sitting still and doing nothing but listen to a tape is very hard for me. I loved the 2/3 of it that I listened to, though.
It is very good! You really should finish it ;)

I like audio books as I can put them on while I'm doing housework, embroidery, playing computer games etc. :) I couldn't just sit and listen to one without doing anything else, but then I'm very bad at doing on thing at a time...

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I'm not that good with understanding spoken English yet that I can do other things while I listen to an audio book, sadly. With German ones, I don't have that problem, but I sometimes get annoyed that I can't read at my own pace. I might have to get used to audio books, though, since I don't seem to find the time for books anymore.

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I didn't realise that you weren't a native English speaker. I would have though that Discworld would be hard to follow in a foreign language!
I wish I were good enough at another language to read/listen to books in it - although I used to listen to French and Spanish language learning tapes while doing other things, in the hope that it would reinforce my learning of the languages in class.

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It's alright, but I have to focus on it. I think the books would be far easier to follow, but I read them in German. After having a read a dozen books from the public library in German and gotten used to the different names, it seemed too much trouble to switch.

Well, I can neither speak French nor Spanish, you have me on that ;)

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I've got a couple of them (very, very few) for the Original Star Trek, but I haven't listened to them for, oh, about a decade or so. Perhaps I should. I found that it's sometimes easier for me to understand spoken English when I have nothing else (ec moving pictures and stuff) to distract me.

Of course, there's always the danger of falling asleep...

Drat, it was the wrong userpic again!

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morethanpasta

Hm, I've never really thought about the pictures being a distraction. That's quite true, though. It's annoying when the speakers talk too fast and you have to rewind, though.

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I know - translated names make talking about books confusing, I read most of the Asterix books in French and still don't know all the English character names (although I don't remember the French names very well any more).

Well, I don't actually speak French or Spanish, but I have nice pieces of paper to say that I used to (well, to some extent)

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*laughs* Doesn't that happen to most of the old school knowledge? It's scary how quickly we forget things it took us years to learn!

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Sadly very true! I realised lately how much of the stuff that researched for my dissertation had gone.

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Books: LOTR, plus several Hungarian authors you probably never heard of.

TV show: Battlestar Galactica, the classic. The one and only. I last watched some of it a year or so ago, to check dialogue for a story, and I find that I still love it evey bit as passionately as back in the 1980s, when it first found its way into this country.

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Ah, Battlestar Galactica! That brings up memories! It's the first sci-fi other than Star Trek that I loved.

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Me, I saw it even before Star Trek. Oh, first love... and for its time, it was actually pretty advanced. The sets and the costumes were amazing.

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There are a few episodes I'd like to rewatch very much, only I don't remember what they were called, so it's very hard to search for them. I also saw it long before Star Trek.

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It did have a unique charm, even if some episodes where terribly stupid.

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Yeah, I guess it would have been pretty advanced for its time. By the time I saw it, the effects and such were already outdated, but I loved it anyway.

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