Book meme
stolen from niff
Prose or Poetry?
How could I choose? I love posting a poem a day, but I'd be lost without prose, too!
Book(s) you're reading now:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Last book(s) you read:
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Next book you're going to buy/read:
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin for austinbooknerds
Book you've read the most times:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë wins, hands down. Others include Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis, My Antonia by Willa Cather, Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling, and Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
Longest book you've read:
It's hard to say because page numbers really don't mean anything since page sizes are so different. If I had to guess, I'd say Les Miserables by Victor Hugo was the longest. I'm not sure if David Copperfield is longer or not.
Book you've read in the shortest time (relative to the number of pages):
Last summer I read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for the second time. It took about ten hours to read 872 pages, but I'm sure I stopped to eat during that time. There are lots of books I've read in an afternoon (or less), but I simply devoured OotP that day.
One book you wanted to read that disappointed you:
That would have to be Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë. Last summer I read all the Brontë novels I hadn't read before (which was all of them except Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights). I liked all of them except Agnes Grey, which I thought was abysmally boring and pointless. It's the more recognized of Anne's two novels, too, though I liked The Tenant of Wildfell Hall much better.
Have you read books in a language different from yours?
I have not. I can't read (or speak) any language except English fluently.
Writer you've read the most books from:
That's a tough one, considering the series I've read, as niff mentioned. As far as series go, I've read a bunch of Patricia Cornwell (13 - both Kay Scarpetta and Andy Brazil). I've read The Kent Family Chronicles (8), the North and South trilogy, and 2 unrelated books by John Jakes. I've read all the Anne of Green Gables books by L.M. Montgomery (8). Other than series, I've read ten books by Louisa May Alcott, and some of her short stories. I've read quite a few Larry McMurtry (at least 7). I guess I can't top Patricia Cornwell. I read all those in about a month and since then there have been two more Kay Scarpetta novels and one Andy Brazil novel, which I haven't read.
Some books you like (not necessarily your faves):
This could take a while, but I'll try to keep it "short"... (and of course I have to write my faves!)
Jane Eyre, Villette, and Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Little Women, Eight Cousins, and Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
The Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
Madame Curie: A Biography by Eve Curie
A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
The Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
3 books you don't like:
Mrs. de Winter by Susan Hill - it never should have been written; avoid it like the plague
Black Boy and Native Son by Richard Wright - I was forced to read them in HS and hated them