This looks like a cute one. Send me a letter (or a whole word! god knows I'm not about to get tired of the sound of my own voice) and I'll answer
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F. Fictional Character You Would Have Dated In High School Oh geez, high school, that was a very long time ago. (I'm taking this to mean "character you were attracted to in fictional books that you read as a teen" and not necessarily "a fictional character who reminds you of the kind of people you were actually dating in high school", which would be a different and probably funnier category.) (*coughKYLORENcough*)
I definitely had a crush on Ford Prefect from the Hitchhiker's Trilogy -- in fact, that probably dates to earlier than high school, since I used to listen to the Hitchhiker's radio series when I was maybe ten or eleven? I know I would retell stories from it to my best friend at Montessori school, so I had to have been well into it before sixth grade. I got exposed to the radio series first -- my incurably Anglophile parents bought it on a set of six audiotapes that I would listen to on my little tape deck in my room, understanding maybe 45% of the jokes -- but also read the books a lot, so I think it counts for the book
O. One Book That You Have Read Multiple Times At first I was looking around for a backup answer to "F" to avoid duplication because the only books I could think of that I'd definitely re-read were the Hitchhiker's Trilogy. Which, I mean, makes sense, since I think we all do more retreads of the stuff we obsess over as teens than of our grown-up books. But once I started thinking about it, there are a lot of books I've read more than once, from various genres and times in my life. And as the icon suggests, a particularly influential one would be The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- or the Holmes canon more generally, but to meet the "one book" stipulation I'll go with the first collection of short stories
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W. Worst Bookish Habit Accumulation, accumulation, accumulation. Isn't that every reader's answer, though?
Okay, I have occasionally been known to recommend things I haven't technically "finished" or in at least one case "read" (the kind of stuff where you have enough familiarity with what the thesis is and how it's supported and the author's other work to want to tell people "none of you know what you're talking about you should go read this person's book" but you maybe actually have not taken your own advice yet?). That one's a true bad habit, albeit also, I bet, a more common one than most of us would like to admit.
Q. Quote From A Book That Inspires You/Gives You Feels
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
John Milton's Areopagitica. We read it in a class I took in spring 2002; a formative time to be talking about one of the great works on censorship and freedom of thought. Technically it's a speech, but whatever, it's a book too.
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Oh geez, high school, that was a very long time ago. (I'm taking this to mean "character you were attracted to in fictional books that you read as a teen" and not necessarily "a fictional character who reminds you of the kind of people you were actually dating in high school", which would be a different and probably funnier category.) (*coughKYLORENcough*)
I definitely had a crush on Ford Prefect from the Hitchhiker's Trilogy -- in fact, that probably dates to earlier than high school, since I used to listen to the Hitchhiker's radio series when I was maybe ten or eleven? I know I would retell stories from it to my best friend at Montessori school, so I had to have been well into it before sixth grade. I got exposed to the radio series first -- my incurably Anglophile parents bought it on a set of six audiotapes that I would listen to on my little tape deck in my room, understanding maybe 45% of the jokes -- but also read the books a lot, so I think it counts for the book
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At first I was looking around for a backup answer to "F" to avoid duplication because the only books I could think of that I'd definitely re-read were the Hitchhiker's Trilogy. Which, I mean, makes sense, since I think we all do more retreads of the stuff we obsess over as teens than of our grown-up books. But once I started thinking about it, there are a lot of books I've read more than once, from various genres and times in my life. And as the icon suggests, a particularly influential one would be The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- or the Holmes canon more generally, but to meet the "one book" stipulation I'll go with the first collection of short stories ( ... )
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Accumulation, accumulation, accumulation. Isn't that every reader's answer, though?
Okay, I have occasionally been known to recommend things I haven't technically "finished" or in at least one case "read" (the kind of stuff where you have enough familiarity with what the thesis is and how it's supported and the author's other work to want to tell people "none of you know what you're talking about you should go read this person's book" but you maybe actually have not taken your own advice yet?). That one's a true bad habit, albeit also, I bet, a more common one than most of us would like to admit.
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I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
John Milton's Areopagitica. We read it in a class I took in spring 2002; a formative time to be talking about one of the great works on censorship and freedom of thought. Technically it's a speech, but whatever, it's a book too.
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