Saturday 24 October 2009

Wishful thinking

Meme time again - this one was conjured up by Charles over at Razored Zen and I thought I'd have a go -

What five novels (other than your own) do you wish you had written?
1. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
2. Shane by Jack Schaefer
3. The Hunter by Richard Stark
4. Any of the Edge novels
5. Farewell my Lovely by Raymond Chandler

What five short stories (other than your own) do you wish you had written?
1. The Monkey's Paw
2. Survivor Type
3. The tell tale heart
4. Eric the Pie
5. Son of Celluloid

What five songs (other than your own) do you wish you had written?
1. Yesterday
2. Hey Jude
3. Half the world away
4. Anarchy in the UK
5. I'm only sleeping

What five movies do you wish you had written/directed?
1. Once Upon a Time in the West
2. Goldfinger
3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
4. The Searchers
5. The Unforgiven

What five science/nonfiction books do you wish you’d written?
1. The Joy of Sex
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?
5. Gardening on a budget

What five games do you wish you had invented?
1. Chess
2. Scrabble
3. Adult Twister
4.Grand Theft Auto
5. Trivial Pursuit

What five movie lines do you wish you’d written?
1. A horse just ran over my head
2. Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, do you? Punk?
3. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do
4. You were only supposed to blow the doors off
5. Nobody's perfect


Have a go - it's fun doing these lists.

2 comments:

Charles Gramlich said...

LOL. In rethinking maybe I'd have picked the Kama sutra for one of my nonfiction books. It would have been good to learn all that stuff in order to write it!

Laurie Powers said...

this looks like fun but a little too much work for my little pea brain today. maybe tomorrow.

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