So this is a facebook thing, but I didn't feel like doing it there
You have received this note because someone thinks you are a literary geek. 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. Don't bother trying to italicize your book titles. We know you want to.
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Gregory Maguire if you mean completely different boos...if it is book series' then Lemoney Snicket
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Umm...probably one of my Harry Potter books
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Not even slightly
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Oh I don't know...I never think of story characters like that
5) What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children)?
Hmm...probably The Giver
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
The Giver
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
I haven't really read any bad ones lately
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Well if we are speaking strictly novels I would say my reread of Blindness by Jose Saramago, but if we count plays then I would say Omnium Gatherum by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Blindness by Jose Saramago...it's incredible
10) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
The Black Book: Diary of a Teenage Stud bu Jonah Black or How I Paid for College: A Story about Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theatre by Marc Acito
11) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
I don't know...I'm not a big fan of movies based on books. I would hate to see The Giver made into a movie because they would ruin it (or maybe it would be the coolest thing ever because everything would start out black and white and color would slowly be added into it.
12) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Probably Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
13) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man...it made me want to eat nails doused in arsenic
14) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
...both dressings are pretty gross
15) Roth or Updike?
Never read either
16) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Them either...
17) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Got to go with Billy Shakespeare..."Oh that I were a glove upon that hand that I may touch thy cheek"...is there a better line ever written?
18) Austen or Eliot?
As in T.S. and Jane...I would go with T.S. because I've actually read his stuff
19) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Oh I don't know...I've never read any kerouac and I don't read any of the super modern guys
20) What is your favorite novel?
Blindness or Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire (The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1984, and THe Color Purple are all close seconds)
21) Poem?
Probably something by Maya Angelou.
22) Short story?
Oh there are so many good ones...I actually really love The Lottery by Shirley Jackson...that or Desire and the Black Massuer by Tennessee WIlliams...I guess I love shocking twists
23) Work of nonfiction?
I don't really do nonfiction...but I love Freakonomics and Bush World
24) Play?
So many...but I would go with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
25) Who is your favorite writer?
I have a lot of them
26) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Dan Brown...nuff said
27) What is your desert island book?
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
28) What are you reading right now?
Not About Nightingales by Tennessee Williams
29) What book influenced you the most?
Oh I don't know...I would say all of them influenced me
30) What book are you embarrassed to admit you've read?
None I'm ok with the books I've read whether they be Moby Dick (super overrated) or The Series of Unfortnate Events (brilliant)
31) What book are you embarrassed to admit you haven't read?
I don't know...
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Gregory Maguire if you mean completely different boos...if it is book series' then Lemoney Snicket
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Umm...probably one of my Harry Potter books
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Not even slightly
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Oh I don't know...I never think of story characters like that
5) What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children)?
Hmm...probably The Giver
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
The Giver
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
I haven't really read any bad ones lately
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Well if we are speaking strictly novels I would say my reread of Blindness by Jose Saramago, but if we count plays then I would say Omnium Gatherum by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Blindness by Jose Saramago...it's incredible
10) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
The Black Book: Diary of a Teenage Stud bu Jonah Black or How I Paid for College: A Story about Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theatre by Marc Acito
11) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
I don't know...I'm not a big fan of movies based on books. I would hate to see The Giver made into a movie because they would ruin it (or maybe it would be the coolest thing ever because everything would start out black and white and color would slowly be added into it.
12) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Probably Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
13) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man...it made me want to eat nails doused in arsenic
14) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
...both dressings are pretty gross
15) Roth or Updike?
Never read either
16) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Them either...
17) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Got to go with Billy Shakespeare..."Oh that I were a glove upon that hand that I may touch thy cheek"...is there a better line ever written?
18) Austen or Eliot?
As in T.S. and Jane...I would go with T.S. because I've actually read his stuff
19) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Oh I don't know...I've never read any kerouac and I don't read any of the super modern guys
20) What is your favorite novel?
Blindness or Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire (The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1984, and THe Color Purple are all close seconds)
21) Poem?
Probably something by Maya Angelou.
22) Short story?
Oh there are so many good ones...I actually really love The Lottery by Shirley Jackson...that or Desire and the Black Massuer by Tennessee WIlliams...I guess I love shocking twists
23) Work of nonfiction?
I don't really do nonfiction...but I love Freakonomics and Bush World
24) Play?
So many...but I would go with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
25) Who is your favorite writer?
I have a lot of them
26) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Dan Brown...nuff said
27) What is your desert island book?
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
28) What are you reading right now?
Not About Nightingales by Tennessee Williams
29) What book influenced you the most?
Oh I don't know...I would say all of them influenced me
30) What book are you embarrassed to admit you've read?
None I'm ok with the books I've read whether they be Moby Dick (super overrated) or The Series of Unfortnate Events (brilliant)
31) What book are you embarrassed to admit you haven't read?
I don't know...