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unknownfateBook Meme
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Well, if you don’t count the graphic novels (Fables and Elfquest), it would have to be Charles De Lint. Tanith Lee is a close second, followed by the Preston/Child books.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I have to keep it in stock because I keep lending it to people.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Didn’t even notice.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
It’s no secret that the Watchmen movie set off Rorschach fangirliness. I don’t know if that counts since it was the movie version that did that. I almost said Agent Pendergast, but I think he would get on my nerves if I actually had to be around him. This is going to take some thought….
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)?
Easy. Lord of the Rings. I’ve read at least one book of it every year since the 5th grade. I have also worn out paperbacks of Watership Down and Neverwhere.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old.
Watership Down by Richard Adams
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Hunh. I can’t say Twilight or Eragon, because I didn’t finish either. (Bleah) I’ll have to go with Moongazer by Marianne Mancusi. Not so terrible I gave up on it, but not that great either.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Well, gotta say Watchmen. With the movie coming out, I broke down and got my own copy. I’ve read it several times. The best book I’ve read for the first time this year is Monster Blood Tattoo: Book One by D.M. Cornish.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Good Omens. I wouldn’t have so many copies if I wasn’t always lending them or giving them as gifts. The Zombie Survival Guide is a good one, also.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
Undecided.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
I’d like a redo on Relic (Preston/Child) that was based a little more closely on the book. Fables would be awesome, but I‘ve heard rumor that it might be a tv series soon. Birth of the Firebringer! It would have to be animated, but if they did it right, it would be so cool.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Tales of the Flat Earth by Tanith Lee. Ok, it would gorgeous if they matched the visuals to the descriptions, but it would be long and sprawling and complicated and disturbingly beautiful, like some sort of conjoined twin lovechild born of a threesome between The Cell and The Matrix and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I would probably still watch it.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
My most recent was a Watchmen/Serenity/Coraline crossover . Details here. .
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Wildwood by John Farris. I’ve read it twice, with almost ten years in between them. It was a beach book the first time, and I wondered for a long time if that book had really been about what I thought it had. So I when I found it again in a used book store years later, I read it again. It was about what I thought it was.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis. I was bored out of my mind. I’ve never had to force myself to keep reading before.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Augh. I don’t remember the name… It was a school play that was Midsummer’s Night Dream meets Taming of the Shrew. In SPACE!
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
You probably don’t mean salad dressing.
18) Roth or Updike?
I don’t think I’ve read anything by Roth.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Don’t know their work either.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Undecided.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Eliot
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Fanfiction. Finding the good stuff takes some effort, and I end up reading the bad every now and then too. I’m starting to understand why people watch soap operas.
23) What is your favorite novel?
Wow. This could take awhile. I have a pile of paperbacks that are my ‘staples’. I love them all and so if there’s going to be a long drive or a day at the beach, I can grab any of them and enjoy it. It includes Neverwhere, Soul Music, Relic, Big Trouble, Watership Down, Prince Ombra, Birth of the Firebringer, The Gunslinger, The Two Towers, and Book 3 of Fables.
24) Play?
Les Miserables
25) Poem?
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe. Also like Yeats and Silverstein. And Tolkien.
26) Essay?
Alas, Alack, Alarms by James Lilek, mainly because I can’t remember the names of the Dave Barry ones I saved, and I can’t find them either.
27) Short story?
The Boy Who Kicked Pigs by Tom Baker. Yes, that Tom Baker.
28) Work of nonfiction?
Dave Barry Does Japan by Dave Barry. I laughed so hard the stewardess was worried. She brought me an extra snack to shut me up.
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Has to be Charles De Lint.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephenie Meyer. Thank goodness I had the option of walking away that I didn’t have with Arrowsmith.
31) What is your desert island book?
Dreams Underfoot was the first one to come to mind, but that list is long.
32) And... what are you reading right now?
Still reading Watchmen over and over. Also Based on a True Story, about movies that Hollywood claims are true stories.
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Well, if you don’t count the graphic novels (Fables and Elfquest), it would have to be Charles De Lint. Tanith Lee is a close second, followed by the Preston/Child books.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I have to keep it in stock because I keep lending it to people.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Didn’t even notice.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
It’s no secret that the Watchmen movie set off Rorschach fangirliness. I don’t know if that counts since it was the movie version that did that. I almost said Agent Pendergast, but I think he would get on my nerves if I actually had to be around him. This is going to take some thought….
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)?
Easy. Lord of the Rings. I’ve read at least one book of it every year since the 5th grade. I have also worn out paperbacks of Watership Down and Neverwhere.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old.
Watership Down by Richard Adams
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Hunh. I can’t say Twilight or Eragon, because I didn’t finish either. (Bleah) I’ll have to go with Moongazer by Marianne Mancusi. Not so terrible I gave up on it, but not that great either.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Well, gotta say Watchmen. With the movie coming out, I broke down and got my own copy. I’ve read it several times. The best book I’ve read for the first time this year is Monster Blood Tattoo: Book One by D.M. Cornish.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Good Omens. I wouldn’t have so many copies if I wasn’t always lending them or giving them as gifts. The Zombie Survival Guide is a good one, also.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
Undecided.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
I’d like a redo on Relic (Preston/Child) that was based a little more closely on the book. Fables would be awesome, but I‘ve heard rumor that it might be a tv series soon. Birth of the Firebringer! It would have to be animated, but if they did it right, it would be so cool.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Tales of the Flat Earth by Tanith Lee. Ok, it would gorgeous if they matched the visuals to the descriptions, but it would be long and sprawling and complicated and disturbingly beautiful, like some sort of conjoined twin lovechild born of a threesome between The Cell and The Matrix and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I would probably still watch it.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
My most recent was a Watchmen/Serenity/Coraline crossover . Details here. .
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Wildwood by John Farris. I’ve read it twice, with almost ten years in between them. It was a beach book the first time, and I wondered for a long time if that book had really been about what I thought it had. So I when I found it again in a used book store years later, I read it again. It was about what I thought it was.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis. I was bored out of my mind. I’ve never had to force myself to keep reading before.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Augh. I don’t remember the name… It was a school play that was Midsummer’s Night Dream meets Taming of the Shrew. In SPACE!
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
You probably don’t mean salad dressing.
18) Roth or Updike?
I don’t think I’ve read anything by Roth.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Don’t know their work either.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Undecided.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Eliot
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Fanfiction. Finding the good stuff takes some effort, and I end up reading the bad every now and then too. I’m starting to understand why people watch soap operas.
23) What is your favorite novel?
Wow. This could take awhile. I have a pile of paperbacks that are my ‘staples’. I love them all and so if there’s going to be a long drive or a day at the beach, I can grab any of them and enjoy it. It includes Neverwhere, Soul Music, Relic, Big Trouble, Watership Down, Prince Ombra, Birth of the Firebringer, The Gunslinger, The Two Towers, and Book 3 of Fables.
24) Play?
Les Miserables
25) Poem?
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe. Also like Yeats and Silverstein. And Tolkien.
26) Essay?
Alas, Alack, Alarms by James Lilek, mainly because I can’t remember the names of the Dave Barry ones I saved, and I can’t find them either.
27) Short story?
The Boy Who Kicked Pigs by Tom Baker. Yes, that Tom Baker.
28) Work of nonfiction?
Dave Barry Does Japan by Dave Barry. I laughed so hard the stewardess was worried. She brought me an extra snack to shut me up.
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Has to be Charles De Lint.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephenie Meyer. Thank goodness I had the option of walking away that I didn’t have with Arrowsmith.
31) What is your desert island book?
Dreams Underfoot was the first one to come to mind, but that list is long.
32) And... what are you reading right now?
Still reading Watchmen over and over. Also Based on a True Story, about movies that Hollywood claims are true stories.
