Doing Finals Land Like a Boss
Because I am tired of doing the title of this post, I thought I might yoink a fun looking meme from champagnesly.
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Terry Pratchett--or perhaps Mercedes Lackey, but much as she's marshmellow-y fun I feel less attached to her books, where as my Pratchett collection I'm taking with me to the grave.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Pride and Prejudice. I have one version from my aunt, two from our Scottish cousins, and one my dad keeps stealing to read.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
As long as I'm not doing it, you're good to go, Mr. Meme.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Doesn't this not count as secret? Also, are we talking about 'Fictional' or 'From a Book'?
Eliza Bennett was possibly my first love, but I have relinquished her to Mr. D with a fond heart. I'm not too into fictional characters in a loving way. Although, I'm probably a little too attached to Merril for my own good. And we speak not of Greenland, Fairywine.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett. Still my favorite book after 9 years. Here's to number 10!
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Wind in the Willows - I didn't understand it, but I loved that chapter where Ratty and Mole find the baby otter in front of Pan.
Freddy the Detective - Jinx made me laugh.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
I'm an English Major. I've read a lot of crap in the name of literary thought. I think the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin takes the cake. Though The Narrative of Mary Rowlinson could work. Or The Scarlett Letter. Or Young Goodman Brown. Or My Kinsman, Major Molineux. Or The Coquette.
If you can see the connection between all of these, congratulations. There were more, but I have expunged them from my mind. ... I still liked Arthur Mervyn, though. Although it could have something to do with having to read so much that I didn't enjoy that it came off as brilliant.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Night Watch because then I can gush over it some more with like minded people.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
I don't read much contemporary literature: no time, and very little interest. I'm very fond of what Rushdie has accomplished, but some people might say that it's his time to step out of the spotlight.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
And yet again, we're back to Night Watch, though out of fear that it would ruin a story I love, I would prefer a television mini series so they don't have to cut things the way movies do (also, the Hollywood establishment which has been slowly killing Pride and Prejudice, all of my favorite comic books, and completely DESTROYED my childhood with the Transformers movies, wouldn't get their hands on it.)
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
See my dislike lists.
13) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
I assume you mean by lowbrow the genres that I enjoy reading, right? -.-
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Finnegan's Wake still haven't finished it. Joyce, I love you, but I need a support group for this one. Sorry.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
That I've seen? I've only seen one play: Midsummer Night's Dream. Which isn't exactly obscure. I've read a lot obscurer, though.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Russian. So Russian. C'mon, when I have a choice between Dostoyevsky and Proust, it shouldn't take a genius who has read this far to know that I'm much happier getting inside the mind of a fairly normal guy as he gets twisted into becoming a monster. I love that shit.
18) Roth or Updike?
I'll take 'The reason I can't stand modern American literature' for 200, Alex.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Meh. Never cottoned on to either.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Chaucer, when I'm in the mood for a good story. Milton, when I'm in the mood for a beautifully written one.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Austen. Always.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I don't really have one I read what I like, and the gaps in my reading all fit nicely into the "I loathe it" category. Yes, I'm looking at you, American fiction. I guess I wish that I had more sub-continental fiction under my belt.
23) What is your favorite novel?
Night Watch. I don't really read non-novels.
24) Play?
...
Othello, probably. Not really a theater person, despite my love of musical numbers.
25) Poem?
I don't like poetry.
Beowulf? Or Paradise Lost. But I like them because of the stories that they tell, not the form in which they are presented. In fact, I wish they were prose works. I would probably want to reread them on occasion.
26) Essay?
Faith, Reason, and Revolution by Terry Eagleton--which I know is not an essay, but it's either this or Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak? which I loved, but don't think is my favorite anything, except for brain tenderizer.
27) Short story?
I don't like short stories, for about the same reason that I don't like poetry. If you're going to tell a story don't half ass it.
Bomber and The Bismark I suppose.
28) Work of nonfiction?
Currently in love with Christopher Knight's The Literature of Satire.
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Terry Pratchett. Huh. You would think that I had mentioned him before, or something.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
And I'm about to add to her over-ratedness by even mentioning her: Stephanie Meyers.
31) What is your desert island book?
Night Watch. I can read it again and again, and it does not get old.
32) And ... what are you reading right now?
Deconstructing Special Education and Constructing Inclusion by Thomas and Loxley
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Terry Pratchett--or perhaps Mercedes Lackey, but much as she's marshmellow-y fun I feel less attached to her books, where as my Pratchett collection I'm taking with me to the grave.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Pride and Prejudice. I have one version from my aunt, two from our Scottish cousins, and one my dad keeps stealing to read.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
As long as I'm not doing it, you're good to go, Mr. Meme.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Doesn't this not count as secret? Also, are we talking about 'Fictional' or 'From a Book'?
Eliza Bennett was possibly my first love, but I have relinquished her to Mr. D with a fond heart. I'm not too into fictional characters in a loving way. Although, I'm probably a little too attached to Merril for my own good. And we speak not of Greenland, Fairywine.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett. Still my favorite book after 9 years. Here's to number 10!
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Wind in the Willows - I didn't understand it, but I loved that chapter where Ratty and Mole find the baby otter in front of Pan.
Freddy the Detective - Jinx made me laugh.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
I'm an English Major. I've read a lot of crap in the name of literary thought. I think the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin takes the cake. Though The Narrative of Mary Rowlinson could work. Or The Scarlett Letter. Or Young Goodman Brown. Or My Kinsman, Major Molineux. Or The Coquette.
If you can see the connection between all of these, congratulations. There were more, but I have expunged them from my mind. ... I still liked Arthur Mervyn, though. Although it could have something to do with having to read so much that I didn't enjoy that it came off as brilliant.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Night Watch because then I can gush over it some more with like minded people.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
I don't read much contemporary literature: no time, and very little interest. I'm very fond of what Rushdie has accomplished, but some people might say that it's his time to step out of the spotlight.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
And yet again, we're back to Night Watch, though out of fear that it would ruin a story I love, I would prefer a television mini series so they don't have to cut things the way movies do (also, the Hollywood establishment which has been slowly killing Pride and Prejudice, all of my favorite comic books, and completely DESTROYED my childhood with the Transformers movies, wouldn't get their hands on it.)
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
See my dislike lists.
13) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
I assume you mean by lowbrow the genres that I enjoy reading, right? -.-
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Finnegan's Wake still haven't finished it. Joyce, I love you, but I need a support group for this one. Sorry.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
That I've seen? I've only seen one play: Midsummer Night's Dream. Which isn't exactly obscure. I've read a lot obscurer, though.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Russian. So Russian. C'mon, when I have a choice between Dostoyevsky and Proust, it shouldn't take a genius who has read this far to know that I'm much happier getting inside the mind of a fairly normal guy as he gets twisted into becoming a monster. I love that shit.
18) Roth or Updike?
I'll take 'The reason I can't stand modern American literature' for 200, Alex.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Meh. Never cottoned on to either.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Chaucer, when I'm in the mood for a good story. Milton, when I'm in the mood for a beautifully written one.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Austen. Always.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I don't really have one I read what I like, and the gaps in my reading all fit nicely into the "I loathe it" category. Yes, I'm looking at you, American fiction. I guess I wish that I had more sub-continental fiction under my belt.
23) What is your favorite novel?
Night Watch. I don't really read non-novels.
24) Play?
...
Othello, probably. Not really a theater person, despite my love of musical numbers.
25) Poem?
I don't like poetry.
Beowulf? Or Paradise Lost. But I like them because of the stories that they tell, not the form in which they are presented. In fact, I wish they were prose works. I would probably want to reread them on occasion.
26) Essay?
Faith, Reason, and Revolution by Terry Eagleton--which I know is not an essay, but it's either this or Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak? which I loved, but don't think is my favorite anything, except for brain tenderizer.
27) Short story?
I don't like short stories, for about the same reason that I don't like poetry. If you're going to tell a story don't half ass it.
Bomber and The Bismark I suppose.
28) Work of nonfiction?
Currently in love with Christopher Knight's The Literature of Satire.
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Terry Pratchett. Huh. You would think that I had mentioned him before, or something.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
And I'm about to add to her over-ratedness by even mentioning her: Stephanie Meyers.
31) What is your desert island book?
Night Watch. I can read it again and again, and it does not get old.
32) And ... what are you reading right now?
Deconstructing Special Education and Constructing Inclusion by Thomas and Loxley