Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!!
I consider the Hobbit far superior to the Lord of the Rings Trilogy under the "Brevity is the soul of wit" clause; "child book" or not. Mind you, I'm talking the books here. I liked the LotR movies far more than their print counterparts despite the changes made (or perhaps because of them?).
I never really cared for the Dragon Riders of Pern, couldn't get into them.
I've never read the Amber series. I keep meaning to, but something comes up.
I have no interest in watching Fight Club.
If it weren't for the rest of society moving along whether I like it or not, I would have been perfectly content with VHS tapes as opposed to the over protected over regulated and often over commercial ridden DVDs. Grog like fire, fire good for Grog's father, Fire good for Grog.
While at Gencon, I learned with some embarrasment that there are a LOT of sci fi writers who I have not read.
I love superheroes, but have yet to find a superhero MMORPG that really catches me....they always put in something that takes me out of the moment.
While I've seen many examples of utterly lovely women of East Asian descent, in general I just do NOT understand what all the fuss is about. For that matter, most Asian cultures are mild curiousities to me at most. I'm not even into manga/anime. More power to you that feel differently, but that's one area where I'm lacking as a geek I guess.
I found X-Files kind of dull after just a few episodes.
The 'new' Battlestar Galactica was so bitterly cynical, it had me thinking Mechanon was right.
Babylon 5 WAS good, but the first season was rather drab, where as Deep Space 9 was good from start to finish IMO; accusasions of rips offs aside.
more to come later perhaps