books
1) What author do you own the most books by?
percentage-wise I guess Haruki Murakami or Raymond Chandler. I own at least one copy of every book each of them has published in English. I guess I have more Murakami because I have a lot of them in Japanese too. And several books he's translated.
I wonder if I still have all my goosebumps books somewhere
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
I have bought many copies of the unbearable lightness of being, but now only own two (one is in Turkish)
Maybe Mr Happy.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
not at all
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Phillip Marlowe. Or the hotel receptionist in 'The Wild Sheep Chase'
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
the unbearable lightness of being
6) What was your favourite book when you were ten years old?
The Stand by Stephen King. Even if I couldn't finish it for years.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
I guess I never finished We The Living, so maybe The Remains of The Day.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Oh god...catch 22 I guess. Or 'Where I'm Calling From'. Or 'Lois Lenz, Lesbian Secretary'
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
Haruki Murakami
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Haruki Murakami
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Haruki Murakami
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
Haruki Murakami recommending great Japanese mystery authors.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Lois Lenz, Lesbian Secretary
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
I've attempted Foucalt's Pendulum while drunk many times. Maybe A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the most difficult book I've managed to finish
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Twelfth Night beats the Merchant of Venice for obscurity, right?
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Russians
18) Roth or Updike?
Probably...argh I don't know
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Eggers, d'accord
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Eliot
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
You've exposed a few already.
23) What is your favourite novel?
Right now I'm in a Chandler mood, so The Long Goodbye.
24) Play?
The Empire Builders. Or maybe that's just me being an arty twat. The Importance of Being Earnest. Death of a Salesman.
25) Poem?
that ee cummings one that ends with the line "nobody (not even rain) has such small hands" or 'her praise' by Yeats
26) Essay?
I read a great one about superman. Anything about superman or batman really.
27) Short story?
A bit cliched, but 'a small, good thing'
28) Work of nonfiction?
I quite enjoyed 'the professor and the madman"
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Raymond Chandler, Haruki Murakami or Raymond Carver.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephenie Meyer
31) What is your desert island book?
Maybe 'In Search of Lost Time"
32) And... what are you reading right now?
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (in Japanese) Hotly Bedded, Conveniently Wedded (also in Japanese) Make Room, Make Room by Harry Harrison and Playback by Raymond Chandler
percentage-wise I guess Haruki Murakami or Raymond Chandler. I own at least one copy of every book each of them has published in English. I guess I have more Murakami because I have a lot of them in Japanese too. And several books he's translated.
I wonder if I still have all my goosebumps books somewhere
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
I have bought many copies of the unbearable lightness of being, but now only own two (one is in Turkish)
Maybe Mr Happy.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
not at all
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Phillip Marlowe. Or the hotel receptionist in 'The Wild Sheep Chase'
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
the unbearable lightness of being
6) What was your favourite book when you were ten years old?
The Stand by Stephen King. Even if I couldn't finish it for years.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
I guess I never finished We The Living, so maybe The Remains of The Day.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Oh god...catch 22 I guess. Or 'Where I'm Calling From'. Or 'Lois Lenz, Lesbian Secretary'
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
Haruki Murakami
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Haruki Murakami
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Haruki Murakami
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
Haruki Murakami recommending great Japanese mystery authors.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Lois Lenz, Lesbian Secretary
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
I've attempted Foucalt's Pendulum while drunk many times. Maybe A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the most difficult book I've managed to finish
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Twelfth Night beats the Merchant of Venice for obscurity, right?
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Russians
18) Roth or Updike?
Probably...argh I don't know
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Eggers, d'accord
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Eliot
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
You've exposed a few already.
23) What is your favourite novel?
Right now I'm in a Chandler mood, so The Long Goodbye.
24) Play?
The Empire Builders. Or maybe that's just me being an arty twat. The Importance of Being Earnest. Death of a Salesman.
25) Poem?
that ee cummings one that ends with the line "nobody (not even rain) has such small hands" or 'her praise' by Yeats
26) Essay?
I read a great one about superman. Anything about superman or batman really.
27) Short story?
A bit cliched, but 'a small, good thing'
28) Work of nonfiction?
I quite enjoyed 'the professor and the madman"
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Raymond Chandler, Haruki Murakami or Raymond Carver.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephenie Meyer
31) What is your desert island book?
Maybe 'In Search of Lost Time"
32) And... what are you reading right now?
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (in Japanese) Hotly Bedded, Conveniently Wedded (also in Japanese) Make Room, Make Room by Harry Harrison and Playback by Raymond Chandler