unshared interests (in LJ terms, that is)

[redbird]

Always Coming Home (a novel I love, by Ursula Le Guin, one that many other people seem to find difficult or unappealing);
Daniel M. Pinkwater (delightful writer; I wonder if this is unshared because other Pinkwater fans have listed other variants of his name);
irregular classical noun plurals;
latvian folk sock motifs (thrown in there to be unique at a time when I had no unshared interests);
platypodes (speaking of irregular plurals);
significant otters (silliness and seeking uniqueness).

Comments

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Ah, Always Coming Home is my favourite Le Guin. I've still to find the music. What I need to do someday is go sit under a madrone in a friend's woodland on top of one of the Santa Cruz mountains and read the whole thing - chanting the songs and reading the stories out loud...

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

As a local geography geek, one of the things I love best about ACH (which I read when it came out, including listening to the tape of stories and songs) is imagining her geography as my geography (it is!) and placing her places in modern context as well as the time in which the book is set.

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

I think you may well know just who's tree it would be, too!

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

We've made it a point that all of our LJ interests are unshared. I believe that a couple have been picked up by others, which means we have to change them.

B

[redbird]

FYI, you currently have three shared interests.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

How diligent you are!

K.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I love Always Coming Home. I have a soft spot for fiction written as if it were nonfiction, and another for anthropology, and that book hits both.

A.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

The one that surprises me is that - as of lkast time I looked, which was a couple of minutes ago - nobody else has listed M.J. Engh as an interest. She may be depressing, but she's _good_.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

I love Always Coming Home, but I'd run out of space if I listed all of LeGuin's novels and short stories that I love.

[misia.livejournal.com]

I adore Pinkwater beyond measure. He's a swell guy, too.

And platypussycats are ultra-marvy. M. collects stuffed platypussies.

To my astonishment

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

I'm down to two unshared interests, the ragtime performer Terry Waldo (of the Gutbucket Syncopators) and Abigail Padgett (author of a wonderful series about a bipolar detective). One I thought would never be matched, William Least-Heat Moon, has just been matched.

Re: To my astonishment

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

I used to list William Least Heat-Moon (spelled like that because it's spelled that way on his most recent two books), but ran out of space.

Re: To my astonishment

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

I guess I was using the old punctuation. Maybe I'll repunctuate and see if I get more hits.

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

Looks like just plain "Daniel Pinkwater" is what most people have been entering. I thought I'd seen "Always Coming Home" around in other people's interests lists as well, but I guess it was just that I had seen your interest list multiple times. I haven't put any authors in my interests list because it gives me a weird feeling, like putting up posters of celebrities or something, but I'll probably get over that at some point.

[redbird]

Yes, taking the "m." out of Daniel Pinkwater's name gives me 97 matches.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

I love Pinkwater, but I don't list any authors as interests. It feels really weird to me to list people I've met and conversed with as interests, yet it'd be weird to list only the authors I like and haven't met.

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Always Coming Home is one of my all-time favorite books. I read and loved it when it came out (there's a story there I don't have time to tell), and living in Northern California has made it richer and more beautiful. I know the scents now, and the shape of the hills.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

I liked Always Coming Home.