And I say with all my heart.
This is really hard to do when your brain isn't quite functioning.
Here is that book meme. 1000_words tagged me.
1. name one book that changed your life
There are so many. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) opened my eyes to racism and instilled a lifelong need in me to stand up for others. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck) fostered my love of all things Chinese. The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) and How the Other Half Lives (Jacob A. Riis) fueled my anger against all of the injustices in this world. The City of Quartz (Mike Davis) and Sidewalk (Mitchell Duneier) got me interested in urban studies and opened my eyes to the plight of the homeless in urban areas. Black Wealth/White Wealth (Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro) inspired me to start saving money while I can and further inflamed my sense of injustice. Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice) gave me my first inkling of homosexuality in fiction and Nightswimmer (Joseph Olsahn) sealed the deal on my love of gay lit. All of Gordon Korman's books made me realize that it's okay to not be the coolest kid in school. Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson) cemented my love of computers.
2. name one book you have read more than once.
I tend to treat books like comfort food, so I will occasionally go back and reread them if I remember something from the plot or whatever. I've read all of Gordon Korman's and Douglas Adams' books more times than I can count.
3. one book you would want on a desert island
Seriously, I hate questions like that. I refuse to answer.
4. two books that made you laugh
Err. Anything by the following: Douglas Adams, Gordon Korman, Terry Pratchett, Max Barry, Christopher Buckley.
5. one book that made you cry
Just about any book where the best friend of the narrator dies. Yes, I'm a sap.
6. one book you wish you'd written
I don't know. One that sold a lot of copies so I'd be rich by now? Just kidding. I have always wanted to write humor so probably Company (Max Barry).
7. one book you wish had never been written.
Would it be in bad taste if I said the bible?
8. two books you are currently reading
Lately, I have this bad habit of reading more than one book at a time, so I have bookmarks stuck in the following: Exile in Guyville (Dave White), The Dante Club (Matthew Pearl), At Swim Two Boys (Jamie O'Neill), Day Watch (Sergei Lukyanenko), The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum), The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon), A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers), and a bunch of gay lit novels and books by that guy I hate (Bret Easton Ellis).
9. one book you've been meaning to read.
Can't you tell by the above that there are many of them?! I've always meant to read Ulysses (James Joyce) just because an English prof once told me that anyone who says they finished it cover to cover and understands every word is lying.
10. five people i tag
turnpike, firewalkwithme, robanybody, violet_light_ and dine. Or, you know, anyone else who wants to do it.
Dudes, playing Tetris with my dad is hilarious because he yells at the pieces as though they can hear him. Kind of like what he does when he watches football. I guess when you have a job where you always have to bark orders at people to prevent a disaster (he works on emergency management projects with the feds and such), you expect the same to work elsewhere.
Here is that book meme. 1000_words tagged me.
1. name one book that changed your life
There are so many. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) opened my eyes to racism and instilled a lifelong need in me to stand up for others. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck) fostered my love of all things Chinese. The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) and How the Other Half Lives (Jacob A. Riis) fueled my anger against all of the injustices in this world. The City of Quartz (Mike Davis) and Sidewalk (Mitchell Duneier) got me interested in urban studies and opened my eyes to the plight of the homeless in urban areas. Black Wealth/White Wealth (Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro) inspired me to start saving money while I can and further inflamed my sense of injustice. Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice) gave me my first inkling of homosexuality in fiction and Nightswimmer (Joseph Olsahn) sealed the deal on my love of gay lit. All of Gordon Korman's books made me realize that it's okay to not be the coolest kid in school. Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson) cemented my love of computers.
2. name one book you have read more than once.
I tend to treat books like comfort food, so I will occasionally go back and reread them if I remember something from the plot or whatever. I've read all of Gordon Korman's and Douglas Adams' books more times than I can count.
3. one book you would want on a desert island
Seriously, I hate questions like that. I refuse to answer.
4. two books that made you laugh
Err. Anything by the following: Douglas Adams, Gordon Korman, Terry Pratchett, Max Barry, Christopher Buckley.
5. one book that made you cry
Just about any book where the best friend of the narrator dies. Yes, I'm a sap.
6. one book you wish you'd written
I don't know. One that sold a lot of copies so I'd be rich by now? Just kidding. I have always wanted to write humor so probably Company (Max Barry).
7. one book you wish had never been written.
Would it be in bad taste if I said the bible?
8. two books you are currently reading
Lately, I have this bad habit of reading more than one book at a time, so I have bookmarks stuck in the following: Exile in Guyville (Dave White), The Dante Club (Matthew Pearl), At Swim Two Boys (Jamie O'Neill), Day Watch (Sergei Lukyanenko), The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum), The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon), A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers), and a bunch of gay lit novels and books by that guy I hate (Bret Easton Ellis).
9. one book you've been meaning to read.
Can't you tell by the above that there are many of them?! I've always meant to read Ulysses (James Joyce) just because an English prof once told me that anyone who says they finished it cover to cover and understands every word is lying.
10. five people i tag
turnpike, firewalkwithme, robanybody, violet_light_ and dine. Or, you know, anyone else who wants to do it.
Dudes, playing Tetris with my dad is hilarious because he yells at the pieces as though they can hear him. Kind of like what he does when he watches football. I guess when you have a job where you always have to bark orders at people to prevent a disaster (he works on emergency management projects with the feds and such), you expect the same to work elsewhere.