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fascinates) wrote2010-04-30 02:27 pm
fascinates) wrote2010-04-30 02:27 pm
Book Meme
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book_memes, which is bound to be my hangout for the next few hours :D. So many book communities here, I don't know which to subscribe to! Which reminds me, I have to go back to me reading spree. After Percy Jackson's wave, I kind of lost touch with the pages.
Sorry for spamming, this is also to try out cross posting :3.
1) What author do you own the most books by?
- Agatha Christie, hands down. Next would be Michael Crichton and Tamora Pierce.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
- Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, I have two.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
- Not really. I'm not that much of a grammar nazi :D.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
- Oh! Um. SO MANY.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
- Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted and Sir Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series.
6) What was your favourite book when you were ten years old?
- Wilo Davis Roberts' The Girl with the Silver Eyes and Meindert DeJong's The Wheel on the School
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
-Twilight Reading a book I dislike so much that I call it the worst happens rarely, but if I'm compelled to provide something, I'd say Michael Crichton's State of Fear. It's not BAD, per se. It's just that I disagree with a lot of things in it so I can't help disliking it, even if Crichton is one of my favorite writers.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
- Aside from Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, which I dearly love, I'd say Carlos Ruiz Zafon's Shadow of the Wind.
9) If you could force everyone to read one book, what would it be?
Carlos Ruiz Zafon's Shadow of the Wind.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
Probably someone who writes long, cryptic stuff that I can't read T_T;.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
This is hard, because I have bad experiences with seeing movies based on books. But I am very much excited to see Artemis Fowl on screen. Or any Tamora Pierce works (especially Circle of Magic. Kids' books yes.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Hm. I can't really say...
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I can't remember most of them, but I remember dreaming about being a part of the cast of Temeraire and having problems riding dragons because of my fear of heights XD.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
I don't know how to tell which is the most lowbrow, but I have read a lot of them ^^;.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Any Salman Rushdie book confuses me for some reason, maybe it depends on my reading mood. That and War and Peace LOL.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
I haven't "seen" plays, but I've read them, do they count? If so, then The Taming of the Shrew.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
...?
18) Roth or Updike?
None.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
None.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
All? D:
21) Austen or Eliot?
Austen.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I don't read nonfiction when it's not about crimes or mysteries. Actually I have no interest in nonfiction at all except when it's about science OTL. I also have extreme mood swings when it comes to reading.
23) What is your favourite novel?
I don't have a favorite. Or I have tons of favorites.
24) Play?
I am not very fond of plays, but I like Shakespearean ones.
25) Poem?
Allen Ginsberg's Howl XDd and Emily Dickinson's works. Actually, I can't say just one.
26) Essay?
OTL None.
27) Short story?
Kate Chopin's A Pair of Silk Stockings and O. Henry's Gift of the Magi ... that is if we do not count Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown stories.
28) Work of non-fiction?
...T_T
29) Who is your favourite writer?
Oh my...I can't really decide on one.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephenie Meyer I don't think there are overrated writers. :)
31) What is your desert island book?
Sherlock Holmes complete collection volume II! Or...a dictionary.
32) And... what are you reading right now?
Naomi Novik's Temeraire 3: The Black Powder War
book_memes, which is bound to be my hangout for the next few hours :D. So many book communities here, I don't know which to subscribe to! Which reminds me, I have to go back to me reading spree. After Percy Jackson's wave, I kind of lost touch with the pages.Sorry for spamming, this is also to try out cross posting :3.
1) What author do you own the most books by?
- Agatha Christie, hands down. Next would be Michael Crichton and Tamora Pierce.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
- Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, I have two.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
- Not really. I'm not that much of a grammar nazi :D.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
- Oh! Um. SO MANY.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
- Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted and Sir Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series.
6) What was your favourite book when you were ten years old?
- Wilo Davis Roberts' The Girl with the Silver Eyes and Meindert DeJong's The Wheel on the School
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
-
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
- Aside from Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, which I dearly love, I'd say Carlos Ruiz Zafon's Shadow of the Wind.
9) If you could force everyone to read one book, what would it be?
Carlos Ruiz Zafon's Shadow of the Wind.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
Probably someone who writes long, cryptic stuff that I can't read T_T;.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
This is hard, because I have bad experiences with seeing movies based on books. But I am very much excited to see Artemis Fowl on screen. Or any Tamora Pierce works (especially Circle of Magic. Kids' books yes.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Hm. I can't really say...
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I can't remember most of them, but I remember dreaming about being a part of the cast of Temeraire and having problems riding dragons because of my fear of heights XD.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
I don't know how to tell which is the most lowbrow, but I have read a lot of them ^^;.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Any Salman Rushdie book confuses me for some reason, maybe it depends on my reading mood. That and War and Peace LOL.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
I haven't "seen" plays, but I've read them, do they count? If so, then The Taming of the Shrew.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
...?
18) Roth or Updike?
None.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
None.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
All? D:
21) Austen or Eliot?
Austen.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I don't read nonfiction when it's not about crimes or mysteries. Actually I have no interest in nonfiction at all except when it's about science OTL. I also have extreme mood swings when it comes to reading.
23) What is your favourite novel?
I don't have a favorite. Or I have tons of favorites.
24) Play?
I am not very fond of plays, but I like Shakespearean ones.
25) Poem?
Allen Ginsberg's Howl XDd and Emily Dickinson's works. Actually, I can't say just one.
26) Essay?
OTL None.
27) Short story?
Kate Chopin's A Pair of Silk Stockings and O. Henry's Gift of the Magi ... that is if we do not count Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown stories.
28) Work of non-fiction?
...T_T
29) Who is your favourite writer?
Oh my...I can't really decide on one.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
31) What is your desert island book?
Sherlock Holmes complete collection volume II! Or...a dictionary.
32) And... what are you reading right now?
Naomi Novik's Temeraire 3: The Black Powder War