Book meme gacked from anyana13x5
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Tanith Lee probably. 2 shelves' worth.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
The only one I've deliberately bought more than one copy of is The Hounds Of The Morrigan by Pat O'Shea, because I already had the paperback, but found a beautiful hardback signed copy in a 2nd hand bookshop.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Nope.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Algy Lacey.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Erm, Hounds of the Morrigan? Ronia The Robber's Daughter? Good Omens?
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Either Ronia The Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren, or Amazon Adventure by Willard Price.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Wasn't incredibly impressed with some of the new Doctor Who novels. Some of them read rather like bad fanfic.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Er - possibly the 19 Biggles books I've read so far?
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Oh bloody hell, don't know. My Family And Other Animals by Gerald Durrell probably. Or Good Omens. Yes that's two, shut up.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
No idea.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Good Omens, although only if I'm allowed to cast it.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Good Omens if anyone else casts it.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I once dreamt about holding hands with Neil Gaiman and discussing cake...
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
I'm not entirely convinced I've read anything that could be classed as *highbrow*.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Depends what you mean by difficult. I've never been able to finish any Thomas Hardy.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Coriolanus?
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
At what, sex? Oh, writing presumably, har har. I'm not sure I've read anything by either.
18) Roth or Updike?
*shrugs*
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Who?
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare to watch, Milton to read. Not that I do. *sporfles*
21) Austen or Eliot?
George, or TS? George, presumably. Well, her by default, as I've not read any Austen LOL.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Er - not having read any Austen?
23) What is your favourite novel?
The Cure Of Souls, Phil Rickman. Or Neverwhere. Or The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. Or the Hawk and Fisher books. Or Catherine Webb's Horatio Lyle books.
24) Play?
Twelfth Night?
25) Poem?
The Travellers, by Walter de la Mare. Possibly.
26) Essay?
Oh good grief I don't know. Do James and Jeremy's columns count?
27) Short story?
The Parrot Pirate Princess, by Joan Aiken.
28) Work of nonfiction?
My Family and Other Animals (does that count)? Or anything by Benedict Allen.
29) Who is your favorite writer?
I'm not sure I've got a single one, it used to be Tanith Lee, but I've not read any for a long time. Simon Green, possibly. Ooh, or Phil Rickman.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Er - pass.
31) What is your desert island book?
Hmmn, Blue Moon Rising, Simon Green? Or Good Omens, but I'm trying not to keep giving the same answers LOL
32) And... what are you reading right now?
The Story Of Martha, Dan Abnett, The Palace of Varieties, James Lear, To The Baltic With Bob, Griff Rhys Jones.
Tanith Lee probably. 2 shelves' worth.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
The only one I've deliberately bought more than one copy of is The Hounds Of The Morrigan by Pat O'Shea, because I already had the paperback, but found a beautiful hardback signed copy in a 2nd hand bookshop.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Nope.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Algy Lacey.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Erm, Hounds of the Morrigan? Ronia The Robber's Daughter? Good Omens?
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Either Ronia The Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren, or Amazon Adventure by Willard Price.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Wasn't incredibly impressed with some of the new Doctor Who novels. Some of them read rather like bad fanfic.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Er - possibly the 19 Biggles books I've read so far?
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Oh bloody hell, don't know. My Family And Other Animals by Gerald Durrell probably. Or Good Omens. Yes that's two, shut up.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
No idea.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Good Omens, although only if I'm allowed to cast it.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Good Omens if anyone else casts it.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I once dreamt about holding hands with Neil Gaiman and discussing cake...
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
I'm not entirely convinced I've read anything that could be classed as *highbrow*.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Depends what you mean by difficult. I've never been able to finish any Thomas Hardy.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Coriolanus?
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
At what, sex? Oh, writing presumably, har har. I'm not sure I've read anything by either.
18) Roth or Updike?
*shrugs*
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Who?
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare to watch, Milton to read. Not that I do. *sporfles*
21) Austen or Eliot?
George, or TS? George, presumably. Well, her by default, as I've not read any Austen LOL.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Er - not having read any Austen?
23) What is your favourite novel?
The Cure Of Souls, Phil Rickman. Or Neverwhere. Or The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. Or the Hawk and Fisher books. Or Catherine Webb's Horatio Lyle books.
24) Play?
Twelfth Night?
25) Poem?
The Travellers, by Walter de la Mare. Possibly.
26) Essay?
Oh good grief I don't know. Do James and Jeremy's columns count?
27) Short story?
The Parrot Pirate Princess, by Joan Aiken.
28) Work of nonfiction?
My Family and Other Animals (does that count)? Or anything by Benedict Allen.
29) Who is your favorite writer?
I'm not sure I've got a single one, it used to be Tanith Lee, but I've not read any for a long time. Simon Green, possibly. Ooh, or Phil Rickman.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Er - pass.
31) What is your desert island book?
Hmmn, Blue Moon Rising, Simon Green? Or Good Omens, but I'm trying not to keep giving the same answers LOL
32) And... what are you reading right now?
The Story Of Martha, Dan Abnett, The Palace of Varieties, James Lear, To The Baltic With Bob, Griff Rhys Jones.