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1. What author do you own the most books by?
Terry Pratchett.
2. What book do you own the most copies of?
I think I have some extra copies of random Narnia books floating around.
3. Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
That's not something about which I'm a stickler.
4. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Carrot Ironfoundersson. Not sure if I'm in love or want to be him.
5. What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; ie, Goodnight Moon does not count)?
I've read Wicked, Maurice, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, The Schroedinger's Cat Trilogy, and Arcadia an awful lot.
6. What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Don't really remember- let's go with something by Alan Dean Foster or Craig Shaw Gardner.
7. What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Fly By Night- had some nice moments, but was unnecessarily confusing and odd.
8.What is the best book you've read in the past year?
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, closely followed by The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
9. If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
A Wrinkle In Time
10. Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
?
11. What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
The Pig The Prince and the Unicorn or Eighty-Sixed
12. What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
The Great Gilly Hopkins - I'm sure it would be all screwed up.
13. Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I can't recall any. That's odd.
14. What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
An Encyclopedia Brown collection, for nostalgia purposes.
15. What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Ulysses.
16. What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Measure for Measure or Winter's Tale.
17. Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Sure.
18. Roth or Updike?
Updike.
19. David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Sedaris
20. Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare.
21. Austen or Eliot?
Austen
22. What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I don't read most war fiction.
23. What is your favorite novel?
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
24. Play?
Line (Horovitz), Arcadia (Stoppard), Ancient History (Ives)
25. Poem?
Inventory- Dorothy Parker
26. Essay?
A neat one about The Wizard of Oz I have somewhere
27. Short story?
Pretty much anything by Neil Gaiman
28. Work of nonfiction?
Hustlers, Beats and Others
29. Who is your favorite writer?
This is so hard for me because I love so many.
30. Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Dan Brown.
31. What is your desert island book?
Collected plays of Charles Ludlam.
32. What are you reading right now?
Ridiculous Theatre: Scourge of Human Folly
Terry Pratchett.
2. What book do you own the most copies of?
I think I have some extra copies of random Narnia books floating around.
3. Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
That's not something about which I'm a stickler.
4. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Carrot Ironfoundersson. Not sure if I'm in love or want to be him.
5. What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; ie, Goodnight Moon does not count)?
I've read Wicked, Maurice, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, The Schroedinger's Cat Trilogy, and Arcadia an awful lot.
6. What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Don't really remember- let's go with something by Alan Dean Foster or Craig Shaw Gardner.
7. What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Fly By Night- had some nice moments, but was unnecessarily confusing and odd.
8.What is the best book you've read in the past year?
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, closely followed by The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
9. If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
A Wrinkle In Time
10. Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
?
11. What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
The Pig The Prince and the Unicorn or Eighty-Sixed
12. What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
The Great Gilly Hopkins - I'm sure it would be all screwed up.
13. Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I can't recall any. That's odd.
14. What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
An Encyclopedia Brown collection, for nostalgia purposes.
15. What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Ulysses.
16. What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Measure for Measure or Winter's Tale.
17. Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Sure.
18. Roth or Updike?
Updike.
19. David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Sedaris
20. Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare.
21. Austen or Eliot?
Austen
22. What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I don't read most war fiction.
23. What is your favorite novel?
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
24. Play?
Line (Horovitz), Arcadia (Stoppard), Ancient History (Ives)
25. Poem?
Inventory- Dorothy Parker
26. Essay?
A neat one about The Wizard of Oz I have somewhere
27. Short story?
Pretty much anything by Neil Gaiman
28. Work of nonfiction?
Hustlers, Beats and Others
29. Who is your favorite writer?
This is so hard for me because I love so many.
30. Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Dan Brown.
31. What is your desert island book?
Collected plays of Charles Ludlam.
32. What are you reading right now?
Ridiculous Theatre: Scourge of Human Folly