Literary Meme
You have received this note because someone thinks you are a literary geek. (No, I swiped it from LotM.) Copy the questions into your own note, answer the questions, and tag any friends who would appreciate the quiz, including the person who sent you this. (No, I ain't tagging anybody. Do it, if you like.) Don't bother trying to italicize your book titles. We know you want to. (How did they know that) Cue eerie music.)
1) What author do you own the most books by? Not sure. My books are too scattered about in places around the house, including the attic. Most probably either Isaac Asimov, Agatha Christie, Richard Sapir and Warren Murphy or Don Pendleton. I likely have over 40 each by all of these.
2) What book do you own the most copies of? Again, not sure. I've ended up with several copies of the Bible over the years, though I didn't buy any of them. I have several I accidently bought 2 copies of.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions? No. As long as I understand what's being said, I don't care. Always seemed an arbitrary rule, anyway.
4) What fictional character(s) are you secretly in love with? Well, it's no secret. Hermione Granger.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)? The Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Doyle and Baring-Gould. I've read it 6-7 times.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old? Probably the Bobbsey Twins and those Whitman TV tie-ins.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year? I haven't read a lot this year, so I don't have a real answer.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year? "Opening Atlantis" by Harry Turtledove.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be? Got me. I have no interest in forcing people to do anything.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature? Beats me. I don't read the kind of stuff that gets nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie? Anything by Isaac Asimov that actually follows his story.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie? Dunno.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character. Well, if my internet pals count (and I say they do) it would be the one with Qestral AKA Red Rose Remix. I dreamed she was pregnant (not by me) and I gave her a ride to another city.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult? Um, dunno.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? Well, I started a 'learned tome' on humor that was so boringly written, I gave up on it a short way in.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen? Probably the juggling version of "The Comedy of Errors".
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians? Neither. I don't like salads and therefore, don't like dressings.
18) Roth or Updike? Well, I read a book by Roth, once.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers? Who?
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer? Shakespeare
21) Austen or Eliot? Neither
22) Asimov or Heinlein? Asimov. Made this one up myself, since it was missing from LotM's.
23) What is your favorite novel? No one favorite.
24) Play? Harvey, maybe.
25) Poem? High Flight by John Gillespie Magee. Read it here, http://www.skygod.com/quotes/highflight.html
26) Essay? Drat, can't think of one.
27) Short story? Tough call. My favorite short story writer is Saki (H. H. Munro). Tobermory, Gabriel-Ernest, The Shartz-Metterklume Method, The Boar-Pig, Mrs. Packletide's Tiger. By others, The Catbird Seat, Pigs is Pigs, Real Ponies Don't Go Oink, The Chick-a-Nout Narrows.
28) Work of nonfiction? Going by how much I've referred to it, either "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits" by Joel Whitburn, "The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers" by Michael Newton, or "American Guitars" by Tom Wheeler.
29) Who is your favorite writer? No single one. I've read many by Christie, Asimov, Heinlein, Erle Stanley Gardner, John Creasey and others. I'm a sucker for a mystery book series.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today? Anyone I don't like.
31) What is your desert island book? "Your Desert Island, Living There and Loving It" by Sum Ghuy. I know, ripoff of LotM's answer, but I liked it and couldn't think of anything better.
32) Who is your favorite critic or scholar? Don't have one.
33) Who is your favorite philosopher? Comicus (See "History of the World, Part 1)
34) Who is your favorite public intellectual? Like LotM, Mark Twain. Only person I can occasionally remember a quote by.
35) And... what are you reading right now? "Arctic Drift" by Clive and Dirk Cussler.