Monday, March 23, 2009

Another one of these...

1) What author do you own the most books by?
In my apartment right now, I'm very ashamed to say this...but Stephanie Meyer! AHHH! What have I become! But if you count my books in Florida--either C.S. Lewis or Shakespeare.

2) What book do you own the most copies of?
The MPA's Magazine Marketing book...I own three copies. It's a long story.

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Very much.

4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
This is VERY difficult. I guess if I had to pick ONE: Mr. Darcey from Pride and Prejudice.

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)?
Anna Karenina. I LOVED that book when I was 16ish and I kept reading it over and over.

6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Hmmm...probably something by George McDonald. I loved The Princess and the Goblin.

7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Badly written: Twilight (all of them)
Worst Plot: Chasing Harry Winston by: Lauren Weisberger

8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
What Happened to Anna K? by: Irina Reyn

9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Hehehe...Sex in the City
by Candace Bushnell, just because I know most of you wouldn't read it otherwise!

10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
Probably Phillip Roth.

11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
I think Lolita of Tehran.

12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Anything science fiction...

13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I had the brain fever. Anyone who was in Dr. Smith's English 102 class knows what I mean. It was a little crazy...

14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Twilight. So bad...but somehow so addicting?

15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
War and Peace. because it was so long and the battle scenes were FOREVER. Or Moby Dick because I HATED it.

16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Titus Andronicus.

17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
The Russians most definitely.

18) Roth or Updike?
Roth.

19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Sedaris.

20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare for shizzle.

21) Austen or Eliot?
That's tough. I really like them both. I think Austen wins out though.

22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I don't read American literature...I'm not very embarrassed because it sort of sucks in general.

23) What is your favorite novel?
I think it's still Anna K.

24) Play?
Hamlet.

25) Poem?
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot

26) Essay?
I'm not a big essayist...


27) Short story?
A Haunted House, by: Virginia Woolf

28) Work of nonfiction?
God Grew Tired of Us, by: John Bul Dau

29) Who is your favorite writer?
Either Tennyson or C.S. Lewis

30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephanie Meyer...most definitely

31) What is your desert island book?
Something long...

32) And... what are you reading right now?
Jane Eyre, by: Charlotte Bronte

3 comments:

Arianna said...

I'm reading Jane Eyre right now too! You creepy stalker!! ;)

Emily J said...

Nice.
Jane Eyre is soooo good.

Thalasas Nymphe said...

Brain fever!