A meme that caught my eye
A meme over on seaivy 's journal caught my eye so I thought I would try my hand....
1)What author do you own the most books by?
My books are scattered, some in boxes, so it is hard to tell....Anne McCaffrey stands out as do Tony Hillerman, Michael Connelly, James Patterson and Andre Norton.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
I don't have duplicates.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
no - I'm not a grammar nazi
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Legolas might be diverting to pine for
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Lord of the Rings, hands down - I've read the series at least five times, twice since the movies came out
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
I don't specifically remember but it probably had horses in it.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Twilight. Yes, that one.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
This is actually hard. If it is the best book by how it has changed me, as a person, then “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto” by Michael Pollan
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Bill McKibben's “Deep Economy”
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
[sigh] So much of what is deemed literature is just not interesting
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Stephen Woodworth's “Though Violet Eyes” It would require some interesting special effects.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
It has already been made.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
My dreams, at least the ones I recall anything about, never involve any of these things.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Probably the four books I've read recently by Nora Roberts
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Anything by a Russian paid by the word
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
I've only ever seen one Shakespeare play, “A Midsummer's Night's Dream” and that was because I got discount tickets for working in costuming.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
'prefer' is such an inexact term. The Russians are turgid and dull, the French absurd and snotty. I don't go out of my way to read either
18) Roth or Updike?
Neither
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
I've only read something by Sedaris; his wit is wicked
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Please, no. I was a Chemistry major, for chrissakes
21) Austen or Eliot?
Eliot, hands down. Better grasp of a reality I can relate to
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
This question is absurd. I have nothing to prove by my reading list, it's just that I wish I had more time to read
23) What is your favourite novel?
I like a book with an imperfect protagonist I can relate to, with an interesting setting, a meaty mystery, a goodly dose of gritty reality and intertwined themes done with a light touch. A few dragons don't hurt, either.
24) Play?
You bring your ball and I'll try and catch it.
25) Poem?
Shel Silverstein, hehehe
26) Essay?
Stephen J. Gould, Michael Pollan, McKibben, Barbara Kingsolver..... you catch my drift
27) Short story?
“Press Enter” by John Varley. Philip K. Dick and Harlan Ellison, in small doses.
28) Work of nonfiction?
“The Omnivore's Dilemma” will change your life.
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Another question that gets a [sigh] This meme is a bit redundant
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Hemingway comes to mind and Hunter S. Thompson, Ayn Rand, but they're all dead. Updike, Joyce Carole Oates, Margaret Atwood, Stephanie Meyers. I don't do pretension.
31) What is your desert island book?
This is sort of like 'I bet you can't eat just one!'
32) And... what are you reading right now?
“Bring it On” by Laura Anne Gilman, dark urban fantasy, one of my favorite genres.