O hai, did you know I liek books?
Rainbow Legacy update is tantalisingly close, y'all! Hopefully tomorrow, barring unexpected reality.
In the meantime, a meme stolen from xxevermore ...
1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
The leather-bound Bible I got for my thirteenth birthday, closely followed by my worn-to-pieces Lord of the Rings paperbacks from Christmas that year.
2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next?
Current: a couple - Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote.
Last: Kafka on the Shore, also by Haruki Murakami.
Next: Hopefully Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude, but I'll probably sneak in a re-read of Dead Until Dark (the first Sookie Stackhouse novel) first :D
3. What book did everyone like and you hated?
Maybe Twilight. Although it was hilarious to read, so maybe not. I did intensely dislike Moby Dick. Also Eragon and the associated sequels - I found them clumsily written and intensely derivative, and couldn't understand what the fuss was about at all.
4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t?
Les Miserables (even in English.) I've been a quarter of the way through for the last three and a half years...
5. Which book are you saving for “retirement?”
None, really. I'd like to spend retirement re-reading books I know that I love over and over, rather than saving anything specially.
6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?
Wait 'til the end, nearly always.
7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
Depends on the author. I like Neil Gaiman's acknowledgements.
8. Which book character would you switch places with?
Heh. Sybil Vimes. Sookie Stackhouse. Arabella Strange. Princess Buttercup. Anathema Device. Elspeth Gordie. Lirael. Luthien Tinuviel. Lucy Pevensie. I'm a fantasy nerd through and through <3
9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?
I discovered Craig Thompson's Goodbye, Chunky Rice! just after moving away from home to go to uni. I read it now and it still brings back memories of isolation and quiet sadness.
10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
I don't tend to aquire books in interesting ways. I buy them, in shops or over the internet, or borrow them from the library. I did once find a hardcover copy of a Dune novel I specifically wanted in a second-hand bookshop for a dollar and a half, but that's probably more personally than generally interesting.
11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
Eight or nine months after lending my cousins Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, I discovered it on their bookshelf, scuffed, dog-eared and beloved. I quietly put it back on the shelf and went and bought myself a new copy.
12. Which book has been with you to the most places?
My Bible, probably. I have a bright red one that goes with me in the bottom of my backpack to pretty much everywhere.
13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?
I read some truly terrible books in high school - this one in particular springs to mind. They're all still terrible, though.
14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
Nothing particularly strange. Rose petals, feathers, bus tickets.
15. Used or brand new?
Yes.
16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
I've never read a Stephen King book in my life and don't plan to start now, so I've really no idea.
17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
The Princess Bride, and Breakfast at Tiffany's. I saw the movies first in both cases.
18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea books were made into a fairly awful animated movie by Studio Ghibli. Usually I love their films, but not this time.
19. Have you ever read a book that's made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl. Of course.
20. Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?
My dad's. He introduced me to Tolkien, Gaiman, Alan Moore and C.S. Lewis and as such is doing pretty well so far :)
In the meantime, a meme stolen from xxevermore ...
1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
The leather-bound Bible I got for my thirteenth birthday, closely followed by my worn-to-pieces Lord of the Rings paperbacks from Christmas that year.
2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next?
Current: a couple - Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote.
Last: Kafka on the Shore, also by Haruki Murakami.
Next: Hopefully Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude, but I'll probably sneak in a re-read of Dead Until Dark (the first Sookie Stackhouse novel) first :D
3. What book did everyone like and you hated?
Maybe Twilight. Although it was hilarious to read, so maybe not. I did intensely dislike Moby Dick. Also Eragon and the associated sequels - I found them clumsily written and intensely derivative, and couldn't understand what the fuss was about at all.
4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t?
Les Miserables (even in English.) I've been a quarter of the way through for the last three and a half years...
5. Which book are you saving for “retirement?”
None, really. I'd like to spend retirement re-reading books I know that I love over and over, rather than saving anything specially.
6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?
Wait 'til the end, nearly always.
7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
Depends on the author. I like Neil Gaiman's acknowledgements.
8. Which book character would you switch places with?
Heh. Sybil Vimes. Sookie Stackhouse. Arabella Strange. Princess Buttercup. Anathema Device. Elspeth Gordie. Lirael. Luthien Tinuviel. Lucy Pevensie. I'm a fantasy nerd through and through <3
9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?
I discovered Craig Thompson's Goodbye, Chunky Rice! just after moving away from home to go to uni. I read it now and it still brings back memories of isolation and quiet sadness.
10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
I don't tend to aquire books in interesting ways. I buy them, in shops or over the internet, or borrow them from the library. I did once find a hardcover copy of a Dune novel I specifically wanted in a second-hand bookshop for a dollar and a half, but that's probably more personally than generally interesting.
11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
Eight or nine months after lending my cousins Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, I discovered it on their bookshelf, scuffed, dog-eared and beloved. I quietly put it back on the shelf and went and bought myself a new copy.
12. Which book has been with you to the most places?
My Bible, probably. I have a bright red one that goes with me in the bottom of my backpack to pretty much everywhere.
13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?
I read some truly terrible books in high school - this one in particular springs to mind. They're all still terrible, though.
14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
Nothing particularly strange. Rose petals, feathers, bus tickets.
15. Used or brand new?
Yes.
16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
I've never read a Stephen King book in my life and don't plan to start now, so I've really no idea.
17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
The Princess Bride, and Breakfast at Tiffany's. I saw the movies first in both cases.
18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea books were made into a fairly awful animated movie by Studio Ghibli. Usually I love their films, but not this time.
19. Have you ever read a book that's made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl. Of course.
20. Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?
My dad's. He introduced me to Tolkien, Gaiman, Alan Moore and C.S. Lewis and as such is doing pretty well so far :)