Stolen from everyone on my friendslist, as these things usually are

[40cakes]

Ask me for "top five" lists of pretty much anything, and I will list you my top five of that thing or things.

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[duelingrose.livejournal.com]

Top 5 ways to defeat a Rose Duelist. GO!

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

1. Banana Peel
2. Channel the ghost of the long-dead Prince who came to you in your youth to rescue you from certain spiritual death.
3. Pretend you're the real Prince.
4. Flash a boob.
5. Push them into the path of those speeding Akio-mobiles around the track.

[duelingrose.livejournal.com]

Acceptable. ^-^ Especially number four.

[sarcasticval.livejournal.com]

Top five ways writers poorly end an anime/manga.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

1. No ending at all, leaving the viewers thinking, "Wait, that's it?"
2. Putting off writing the ending until episode 25, hoping maybe the original mangaka will end things for you, then staying up until 4 am, saying "Shit, shit, this is all their fault!" scribbling down animation on cels and coloring it in photoshop, then handing it to the cracked-up producer and hoping he won't notice you tried to wrap up every single plotline and loose end in 22 minutes.
3. A circle-jerk circle of clapping people - "Congratulations, Shinji! Good for you, Shinji!"
4. "IT WAS ALL A DREAM!"
5. "Oh, the ending? We'll just wrap it up in an OVA. Eventually. ...Don't hold your breath."

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

Top 5 favorite works of published fiction. No fanfic, but published works. (If you read a lot, then give me your top 5 that you read within the last two years, not your all-time top 5).

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

1. Matilda, by Roald Dahl. I was a lonely little smart kid, and I kept reading this book over and over and over in hopes that I would get telekinetic powers, too.

2. The Princess Bride, by S. Morgenstern William Goldman. I loved the movie and thought I'd try out the book, having no idea what I was in for. Brilliant, brilliant story. So much more than the movie's fairy tale.

3. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy et al, by Douglas Adams. Oddly enough, I tried reading this in high school and couldn't get into it. When the movie was nigh upon release, I figured I'd give it another shot and COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN. I don't pretend to be a high-falutin' literary critic, but this book does fall down on plot and logic occasionally. That being said, this was brilliant and kept me entertained the whole way through. However, I have yet to read Mostly Harmless, as I have a "definitive edition" that was published before its release.

4. Invisible Monsters, by Chuck Palahniuk. His more famous work is Fight Club, but IM does it for me. It's a well-told story with twists that you don't see coming, mostly because you're not looking for twists (which, in my opinion, expecting an "unexpected ending" is pretty dumb).

5. Microserfs, by Douglas Coupland. A darling little novel about worker bees at Microsoft, peppered with romance and a story about striking out independently against the big guns. Due to its computer background, it's a bit dated (oh wow! They have email! NEATO!), but I think it still works today.

Bonus 6. America, by the Daily Show writers. I WISH this were fiction. But it's FUNNY. And my copy is autographed by Jon Stewart. :3

[lalieth.livejournal.com]

1. Matilda, by Roald Dahl. I was a lonely little smart kid, and I kept reading this book over and over and over in hopes that I would get telekinetic powers, too.


I am so with you on that one.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Top five fic cliches you like anyway.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

1. "I know I've kept this inside me for so long, but suddenly I must confess: I love you!" "I love you, too!" ::mack::

2. "Oh! I guess it was just a dream..."

3. "Oh! I guess it was just a dream...OH NO IT WASN'T!"

4. "And they lived happily ever after."

5. Love always happens on first sight, and lasts forever and ever, amen.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[cheekybaby.livejournal.com]

Top five guilty pleasures of any kind. :)

I'm stealing this. I hope I'm interesting enough to do that...

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

1. The Spice Girls. They're fun and poppy and nostalgic and I like Spice World as a good, lie-back-and-let-your-brain-stop-working flick.

2. The Monkees (music & TV show). I know the plots are ridiculous and most of the songs are repetetive, but they're also really funny and Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones is still one of my favourite albums.

3. Microwaving a bag of popcorn, then opening it up, sprinkling in parmasean cheese, then closing the bag and shaking. Because microwave popcorn needs more fat and flavoring, right?

4. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon. I don't know if you're familiar with Sailor Moon at all, but it's about a bunch of girls who fight evil. In cute little sailor outfits with short skirts. PGSM is the live action version of that, and I've pretty much given up trying to convince people that it really is good, because they can't get past the shoddy production values and silly premise. But OMG it almost made me cry!

5. The Oreo Brownie sundae at TGI Friday's. They smush vanilla ice cream between two big oreo cookies, then splatter chocolate and caramel syrups over the entire thing. I lick the plate clean.

[cheekybaby.livejournal.com]

Must. Obtain. Sundae. :)

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Top five favorite fanfiction. Top five most hated as well, if you can narrow it down and are in the mood.