Book Survey
My first day of vacation.
I spent most of yesterday afternoon/evening in a coma-like state, I swear. I was drowsy all day. When I finally got to come home and relax, I slept from 4:30 to about 9:45. Got up. Made food and bummed around. Went back to sleep around 1 or 2 a.m. and slept until 9:30 this morning.
Who knows, I may do it again...
Book Survey, ganked from whsprsatmidnght
1) What author do you own the most books by?
I think it may be a tie between Anne Rice and Tanith Lee. Actually, Lee might be winning. (I would say Stephen King, but not all of the books are "mine.")
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Susan Kay's Phantom and Tanith Lee's The Silver Metal Lover. Oh and Michael Ende's The Never Ending Story.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Not really.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
I don't know if I'd call it love so much as an unhealthy fascination. If you look at my icons, you know who I'm talking about...
Anyway, I fall in love (lust? fascination? obsession?) with fictional characters all the time. And I'm not really quiet about that.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?
Phantom, probably. Maybe Queen of the Damned.
6) What was your favorite book in 7th grade?
7th grade...I think that was my The Vampire Lestat phase.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
I don't think any of them can fit that category, really.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
'09 or '08? Eh. I'll go by month periods. I might be leaning toward The Company She Keeps: The Dangerous Life of a Model turned Mafia Wife. It's a biography. And damned engrossing.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Emma Bull's War for the Oaks. Think it's got a little something for everyone.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
No clue.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Um... Yeah. I'm leery of my favorite books being made into movies. Look what they did to the ending of Hannibal. And the entirety of The Queen of the Damned... Yeah.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
See previous.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
They're all fairly odd. One of the only fairly recent ones I can remember is of the Joker being in my bed. I remember one, from years ago, of dancing with Erik (Phantom); everything was so detailed and I could practically smell cologne and candle wax when I woke up. It was rather intense.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
It's a tie between Twilight and Blue Bloods.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
How about difficult to get through? For that, The Old Man and the Sea. I could have killed Hemingway if he wasn't dead already.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
I don't think "The Winter's Tale" counts as obscure... Or does it?
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Haven't read much Russian literature, so I have to go with French.
18) Roth or Updike?
Haven't read either.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Haven't read either.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Chaucer or Milton.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Haven't read Eliot, but I don't care for Austen.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Having not read or (more likely) finished some classics (e.g. Les Miserables; Madame Bovary; The Picture of Dorian Gray
23) What is your favorite novel?
God, that's a tough question. I have favored novels in lots of genres, so...
24) Play?
"The Glass Menagerie"; "'night, Mother"; "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
25) Poem?
"anyone lived in an anyhow town "
Well, among others.
26) Essay?
Have to get back to you on that.
27) Short story?
One love is "Bite-Me-Not (or Fleur de Feu)" by Tanith Lee.
28) Work of nonfiction?
As I said, digging The Company She Keeps. Also digging Reviving Ophelia and Yes Means Yes .
29) Who is your favorite writer?
I'm a fan of both Patricia McKillip and Tanith Lee.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Dan Brown?
31) What is your desert island book?
See my response for favorite novel.
32) And... what are you reading right now?
The Company She Keeps; Strangewood and Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape.
I spent most of yesterday afternoon/evening in a coma-like state, I swear. I was drowsy all day. When I finally got to come home and relax, I slept from 4:30 to about 9:45. Got up. Made food and bummed around. Went back to sleep around 1 or 2 a.m. and slept until 9:30 this morning.
Who knows, I may do it again...
Book Survey, ganked from whsprsatmidnght
1) What author do you own the most books by?
I think it may be a tie between Anne Rice and Tanith Lee. Actually, Lee might be winning. (I would say Stephen King, but not all of the books are "mine.")
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Susan Kay's Phantom and Tanith Lee's The Silver Metal Lover. Oh and Michael Ende's The Never Ending Story.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Not really.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
I don't know if I'd call it love so much as an unhealthy fascination. If you look at my icons, you know who I'm talking about...
Anyway, I fall in love (lust? fascination? obsession?) with fictional characters all the time. And I'm not really quiet about that.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?
Phantom, probably. Maybe Queen of the Damned.
6) What was your favorite book in 7th grade?
7th grade...I think that was my The Vampire Lestat phase.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
I don't think any of them can fit that category, really.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
'09 or '08? Eh. I'll go by month periods. I might be leaning toward The Company She Keeps: The Dangerous Life of a Model turned Mafia Wife. It's a biography. And damned engrossing.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Emma Bull's War for the Oaks. Think it's got a little something for everyone.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
No clue.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Um... Yeah. I'm leery of my favorite books being made into movies. Look what they did to the ending of Hannibal. And the entirety of The Queen of the Damned... Yeah.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
See previous.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
They're all fairly odd. One of the only fairly recent ones I can remember is of the Joker being in my bed. I remember one, from years ago, of dancing with Erik (Phantom); everything was so detailed and I could practically smell cologne and candle wax when I woke up. It was rather intense.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
It's a tie between Twilight and Blue Bloods.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
How about difficult to get through? For that, The Old Man and the Sea. I could have killed Hemingway if he wasn't dead already.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
I don't think "The Winter's Tale" counts as obscure... Or does it?
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Haven't read much Russian literature, so I have to go with French.
18) Roth or Updike?
Haven't read either.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Haven't read either.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Chaucer or Milton.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Haven't read Eliot, but I don't care for Austen.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Having not read or (more likely) finished some classics (e.g. Les Miserables; Madame Bovary; The Picture of Dorian Gray
23) What is your favorite novel?
God, that's a tough question. I have favored novels in lots of genres, so...
24) Play?
"The Glass Menagerie"; "'night, Mother"; "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
25) Poem?
"anyone lived in an anyhow town "
Well, among others.
26) Essay?
Have to get back to you on that.
27) Short story?
One love is "Bite-Me-Not (or Fleur de Feu)" by Tanith Lee.
28) Work of nonfiction?
As I said, digging The Company She Keeps. Also digging Reviving Ophelia and Yes Means Yes .
29) Who is your favorite writer?
I'm a fan of both Patricia McKillip and Tanith Lee.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Dan Brown?
31) What is your desert island book?
See my response for favorite novel.
32) And... what are you reading right now?
The Company She Keeps; Strangewood and Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape.