meme: day 03 AND 04

[lemanya]

Because I only noticed after day 02 went up that it was actually posted a day late (officially day three), I then forgot to go back and post day 03 and am now like, totally whacked out with it.

*sigh*

so:

Day 03 → Your favorite television program
Without doubt, Supernatural. It's kind of a given. I don't watch much tv to begin with, so I don't have all the much to choose from anyway. Though, Supernatural being said, I'd also like to point out my equal first place, or at least second by a smidgen.
Wire in the Blood is based off a series of books by Val McDermid, starring Hermione Norris as clever, powerful and feisty Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan and Robson Green as semi-socially awkward, slightly eccentric, undoubtedly brilliant Clinical Psychologist Tony Hill. It's mostly psych crime fiction, and it is only of the only media I've seen that doesn't sensationalize forensics and criminal procedure. And sure, there's an element of the fantastic, because it is fiction... but it's raw and brutal and unforgiving, and though it only has around four episodes a season, they're mini movies of about an hour and a half in length of sheer brilliance.


Day 04 → Your favorite book
This one's really tricky, because since Harry Potter ended, I don't have a difinitive favourite. I love the hell out of the Potter series still, but I can't say they stand as my favourite. And lately, I haven't read all that much, and particularly not new fiction, so instead, I'm going to compile a list (hopefully short) of my favourites in general.
Dark Materials Trilogy. Phillip Pullman. Just... check it out if you haven't. I remember the first time my friend lent it to me, I had so much trouble getting past the first half of The Northern Lights (Golden Compass) because it's a little drawn out, and so I pretty much hated it. Then a few years later my parents bought it for me as a present, not knowing my previous attempt, and to date, the spine is beginning to break because I keep reading it.
Artemis Fowl. Eoin Colfer. The first time I heard of this was 2001, and my grade six teacher was reading it to us in class. I can't remember if we finished it or not in class, because halfway through the book I went out and bought it. And then the sequel, and then the third. I didn't like the fourth and fifth as much as the first three (it kinda lost the magic), but Colfer pulled through with an original thrill in the sixth, and brought the whole series together quite nicely.
Dracula. Bram Stoker. I read this in 2006, for English Extension 1, and fell in love with it so much, I made my mother track down the exact copy I had read- a penguin edition- for me for my own collection. To me, this defines Gothic literature. I've always had trouble reading classics, to this day I have not even made it halfway through Lord of the Rings, have not opened ANY Jane Austen novel, and have only read the opening page(s) of Wuthering Heights because it was on an overhead projector for a uni example. But I have read The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Frankenstein and three quarters of The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Dracula is by far (in my opinion) the best.
Brave New World. Aldous Huxley. This, more than any other on the list, stands the most chance of being named favourite. Again, I read this for school- English in 2007, and I read it over and over again. To me, this book is amazingly brilliant and powerful and is extraordinarily influential on my own writing. Huxley built his world so believably that you can't really see anything wrong with it, which is why the ending is so beautiful, emotional and destructive.