TV/MOVIE and BOOK suggestions, please!

[aimeekitty]

TV AND MOVIE SUGGESTIONS PLEASE!
hook me up with some suggestions for your favorite. Doesn't matter whether it's Chinese or Korean or Japanese or whatever. (must have subtitles)

Also open to BBC and Bollywood suggestions. <3

Prefer romantic or action stuff, don't mind drama as long as it's not drama for drama-sake. If everyone dies at the end, it better have been a really good trip to get to that point. Extra points for pretty costumes, total adorableness or tragic heroes.

BOOK SUGGESTIONS PLEASE!
I'd like to read some more fiction lately. Maybe recommend your favorite sci/fi, fantasy or fairy-tale book? Young Adult stuff is fair game, too. I used to read Star Wars books back in highschool and liked some of them... (but haven't read any for years...) and I've enjoyed the New!Who! Audio books I've listened to so far. I also like stuff like Robin Mckinley's retelling of Beauty and the Beast, and I love the book of Howl's Moving Castle. I love Jane Austen and I love The Count of Monte Cristo. I love Sherlock Holmes. I'm enjoying reading Ella Enchanted right now. I liked Dune, but not the sequels... I didn't really care for the Sookie Stackhouse books or Laurel K. Hamilton's stuff. Don't really like the Pern books either.
I tend to enjoy stuff with really strong character development and I particularly like uplifting stories of coming of age, or a character who has a very strong character arc (ie like Kirk going from a kid in the middle of nowhere to being a StarFleet captain.)

EDIT: feel free to keep making recs, I'm going to make a list. <3
For my Dragoncon books, I'm going to start with Stardust and finish up Ella Enchanted since that's what they had at the library. I put holds though on several books you guys rec'd

Please see previous post for Dragoncon schedule.

Comments

[claidissa.livejournal.com]

Haha, I have no idea if you know about any of these or all of them.

TV:
How I Met Your Mother. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_met_your_mother)
Pushing Daisies. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushing_daisies)
Spaced (BBC) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced)
Casanova (BBC) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casanova_(2005_TV_serial)) (Written by RTD, starring David Tennant!)

Movies:
Paprika (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851578/)
Memento (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/)
Memoirs of a Geisha (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397535/)

Books:
Sabriel by Garth Nix (http://books.google.com/books?id=ugSPY6Gi_Y4C&dq=Sabriel&source=gbs_navlinks_s)
Stardust by Neil Gaiman (http://books.google.com/books?id=DI23qrE63OEC&dq=Stardust&source=gbs_navlinks_s)
Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones (http://books.google.com/books?id=Z8qDw1M478oC&dq=Castle+in+the+Air&source=gbs_navlinks_s) (the Howl's Moving Castle sequel)
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (http://books.google.com/books?id=SatOPgAACAAJ&dq=Good+Omens&ei=QEOcStzGEpi-lASuyuSBAQ)

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

Loved:
Casanova
Momento
Memoirs of a Geisha (though the book is better than the movie... the movie is a bit inaccurate, but I still like it.)

Read Castle in the Air but didn't like it nearly as much as Howl for some reason! :\

I liked the Stardust movie, it didn't wow my socks though. Should I read the book?

Paprika's on my "watch the next time I have time to really pay attention" list, because I love all the films by that guy.

Stardust

[persoconchii.livejournal.com]

read it! Its a sliiiightly bit different than the movie, but still very magical in that Gaiman way

Actually, read "Neverwhere" and then watch the cheesy BBC mini-series! Fun comparisons

[singingraisin.livejournal.com]

I think you'd enjoy the Stardust book. It's very different from the movie and VERY MUCH like Dianna Wynne Jones (Gaiman has a talent for sort of imitating other authors' styles... to my total unsurprise, she's mentioned in the acknowledgments), which is actually the reason I didn't like it that much (I do not care for DWJ... I really didn't like the Howl book).

If you'd like to borrow my copy, I'm certainly not going to be reading it again any time soon.

[claidissa.livejournal.com]

Yes! Stardust is a great book. I liked the book better than the movie. I just love his writing style.