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trishtrash posted another book-meme in her journal again, so I couldn't stop myself from having a go at it too.
You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451. Which book do you want to be?
Note: If you've not read it you should know this is a novel of a future world where fascist anti-intellectualism rules and dissidents take it upon themselves to memorize and thus become a book, a perpetuation of a treasured work of learning or literature, against the day when it is safe once again to think freely.
Grendel - John Gardner. Just think of the fun we could have reciting it. I think it would be a very great book to listen to.
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character in a piece of literature?
Hmmm, well, there is Aenea from Endymion/Rise of Endymion. She is cute.
Oh, and Valentine from the Enderverse of course, but I suppose everyone reading Ender books must at some point in their lives have a crush on Valentine .
The last book you bought is:
Hmmm. Let me think. His Master's Voice - Stanislaw Lem. And A Book Dragon - Donn Kushner. I bought them togther - of the first writer I have a lot of books, and the second one just seemed sort of cute.
The last book you read:
Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams, which I picked up in a second-hand shop last month. (nice book, in good condition, reprint hardback in dustjacket from the same year as 1st edition (1990), and all that for 1,10 euro - I found a bookshop site that sells the same book for 15 pounds!)
What are you currently reading?
De Kellner en de Levenden - Simon Vestdijk. A Dutch magical-realism book about a dozen of (not dead) people from the same flat, being herded towards the Final Judgement through a cinema and a huge trainstation, together with thousands of dead people from other centuries. I've read it before for school once, but I don't remember the ending, so I can't tell you why they are there, if either by mistake or some joke/bet between God and someone, or if it's just one big collective dream.
Five books you would take to a deserted island:
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Grendel - John Gardner
God-Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert
The Godmakers - Frank Herbert
Endymion - Dan Simmons
(what?? Only five!?!)