Hello,
Well I generally stay away from meme's on principle but I am bored and this is kinda fun. I got tagged by fellowette over at The Egalitarian Bookworm which if you're not reading it you should. She runs a great lit blog. Anyway here we go:
1) What author do you own the most books by? Looks like a mix between Jane Austen, Will Shakespeare, Terry Moore, and Stephen King right now.
2) What book do you own the most copies of? Don't really own multiple copies of books. I do have different editions of The Outsiders and Carrie. As a tween I became obsessed with finding the different covers.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions? Grammar's evil. If I ignore it, it doesn't exist.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with? Augustus McCrae from Lonesome Dove.
4a) What fictional character would you most like to be? Clara Allen from Lonesome Dove.
4b) What fictional character do you think most resembles you? I'm so Bridget Jones without the boyfriends and crazy parents.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life? Don't really re-read. School has forced me to read Hamlet too many times.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old? Can't remember.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year? The Somnabulist by Jonathan Barnes.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year? That's a tough choice. Brideshead Revisited, Paper Towns, and Essex County Trilogy.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be? Just one book? 1984 by George Orwell.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature? Who cares? Oh yeah nobody.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie? Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marissa Pessl, and Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie? On the Road, only because I don't think it would ever work.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character. Don't remember any at the moment. I leave the dreams in the dreamworld.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult? Depends on your definition of lowbrow. I guess I did read a Jennifer Cusie book once.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? I did read John Nash's papers on Game Theory. That took me forever.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen? Winter's Tale.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians? The Russians. But probably because I've read more Russian Lit than French.
18) Roth or Updike? Really? I'll take esoteric authors that people say they read, but they really don't.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers? Sedaris. Hilarious wonderful writer.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer? William Shakespeare.
21) Austen or Eliot? Jane Austen all day long.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading? Lack of African American Literature. It's incredibly shameful.
23) What is your favorite novel? Really can't pick just one. Pride and Prejudice, Lonesome Dove, 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Slaughterhouse five, Less Than Zero, My Antonia, Winesburg Ohio.
24) Play? Long Day's Journey Into Night.
25) Poem? Howl by Allen Ginsburg. Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
26) Essay? Woolf's "Room of One's Own."
27) Short story? The Dead by James Joyce.
28) Work of non-fiction? Quiet Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas.
29) Who is your favorite writer? Jane Austen.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today? Stephanie Meyer. Really she's not a good writer at all.
31) What is your desert island book? Complete Works of Shakespeare. I could take the time to dissect it all I want.
32) And ... what are you reading right now? Well you could always check here. Right now it's Bodega Dreams and All Star Superman Vol. 2.
Hope you all enjoyed that. Have a great weekend! Book Pusher.
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