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1) What author do you own the most books by?
Gilbert Morris, because I have the whole Daystar series. Most books that aren't one series would be Tolkien.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
The Bible. 1 ESV, 1 NASU, 2 NIVs, 1 NLT, 2 KJVs, 1 NKJV (actually 30 NKJVs but the rest are giveaway Bibles), and a few others I'm nto remember. I have a KJV w/ apocrypha and an ESV w/ apocrypha coming in the mail. My next Bible will probably be an ASV.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Lena in Thomas Covenant was cute...
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 Lord of the Rings, or maybe the Hobbit or the Silm... no probably LotR
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old.
The Lord of the Rings. It changed my life.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Man I don't remember any bad books.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
The Bible. St Augustine's Confessions.
9) If you could force everyone on your friend's list to read one book, what would it be?
Besides the Bible, St Augustine's Confessions or LotR.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
I haven't read any current books...
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
The Thomas Covenant Trilogy would be really interesting. Some of the scenes there were very cinematic.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Tongue-Speaking: An Experiment in Spiritual Experience. Talk about an awkward documentary.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I had a real strange dream about Augustine but do not remember the details.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Man I haven't read that much as an adult. As a kid, Love Medicine. Wow that book was terrible.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
City of God, tho it's definietly not the hardest anything I've ever read.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Eh, King Lear is all. I've never been to plays much on account of they're expensive.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
No
18) Roth or Updike?
What
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Dunno
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
That's a lame question. Milton.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Not sure
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Everything... I've hardly read much at all. Not enough fiction. Not enough Fathers. Not enough Shakespeare. Paradise Lost. Those are the big ones.
23) What is your favorite novel?
LotR
24) Play?
I really liked King Lear.
25) Poem?
Batter My Heart, or the Aeneid
26) Essay?
Politics and the English Language... haha. Or I could probably find something by CS Lewis
27) Short story?
Not sure
28) Work of nonfiction?
The Bible. The City of God.
29) Who is your favorite writer?
JRR Tolkien, St Augustine, Vergil
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
dunno
31) What is your desert island book?
The Bible. City of God. Aeneid.
32) And... what are you reading right now?
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Had to put CoG on hold for now with jsut 122 pages left! Stupid school.
Gilbert Morris, because I have the whole Daystar series. Most books that aren't one series would be Tolkien.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
The Bible. 1 ESV, 1 NASU, 2 NIVs, 1 NLT, 2 KJVs, 1 NKJV (actually 30 NKJVs but the rest are giveaway Bibles), and a few others I'm nto remember. I have a KJV w/ apocrypha and an ESV w/ apocrypha coming in the mail. My next Bible will probably be an ASV.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Lena in Thomas Covenant was cute...
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 Lord of the Rings, or maybe the Hobbit or the Silm... no probably LotR
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old.
The Lord of the Rings. It changed my life.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Man I don't remember any bad books.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
The Bible. St Augustine's Confessions.
9) If you could force everyone on your friend's list to read one book, what would it be?
Besides the Bible, St Augustine's Confessions or LotR.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
I haven't read any current books...
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
The Thomas Covenant Trilogy would be really interesting. Some of the scenes there were very cinematic.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Tongue-Speaking: An Experiment in Spiritual Experience. Talk about an awkward documentary.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I had a real strange dream about Augustine but do not remember the details.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Man I haven't read that much as an adult. As a kid, Love Medicine. Wow that book was terrible.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
City of God, tho it's definietly not the hardest anything I've ever read.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Eh, King Lear is all. I've never been to plays much on account of they're expensive.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
No
18) Roth or Updike?
What
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Dunno
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
That's a lame question. Milton.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Not sure
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Everything... I've hardly read much at all. Not enough fiction. Not enough Fathers. Not enough Shakespeare. Paradise Lost. Those are the big ones.
23) What is your favorite novel?
LotR
24) Play?
I really liked King Lear.
25) Poem?
Batter My Heart, or the Aeneid
26) Essay?
Politics and the English Language... haha. Or I could probably find something by CS Lewis
27) Short story?
Not sure
28) Work of nonfiction?
The Bible. The City of God.
29) Who is your favorite writer?
JRR Tolkien, St Augustine, Vergil
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
dunno
31) What is your desert island book?
The Bible. City of God. Aeneid.
32) And... what are you reading right now?
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Had to put CoG on hold for now with jsut 122 pages left! Stupid school.