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featherynscale:- What author do you own the most books by? By number of books, Terry Pratchett. By words, Robert Jordan.
- What book do you own the most copies of? The Bible; I think we have 3.
- Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions? Nope, I'm a grammar dilettante.
- What fictional character are you secretly in love with? If I told you, it wouldn't be a secret, would it?
- What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)? Probably The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, since I read it about 837 times when I was a kid. My grandparents had a set of illustrated Potter books, and I loved them very very much. I even had a stuffed squirrel doll that I named after him, which I think I inherited from the generation before.
- What was your favorite book when you were ten years old? Probably something Hardy Boys.
- What is the worst book you've read in the past year? Tough call, but I'm going to go with Robert J. Sawyer's Hybrids because it was the worst and last of a bad trilogy.
- What is the best book you've read in the past year? Terry Pratchett's Night Watch or Elizabeth Bear's Dust.
- If you could force everyone you know to read one book, what would it be? Fred Pearce's When the Rivers Run Dry.
- Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature? A good author without pretensions.
- What book would you most like to see made into a movie? Peter Watts' Blindsight; I think it would turn sci-fi cinema on its head.
- What book would you least like to see made into a movie? Robert Jordan's Crossroads of Twilight, not least because I would have to sit through the 88 attempts at the first nine books first.
- Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character. I used to dream I was the Second Coming of Christ, does that count?
- What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult? How many grains of sand are there on the beach? I have no idea how to answer that question, either.
- What is the most difficult book you've ever read? If by "read" you mean finished, then probably The Illuminatus! trilogy. But I was totally defeated by Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast about 1/3 of the way through.
- What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen? Seen? I thought this was a book meme... anyway, probably
10 Things I Hate About YouThe Taming of the Shrew for film, or As You Like It for print (I read several for fun and profit in Jr. High). - Do you prefer the French or the Russians? Russians, by reputation and what little I've read thus far.
- Roth or Updike? Tim Roth?
- David Sedaris or Dave Eggers? Who?
- Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer? Shakespeare.
- Austen or Eliot? Either is good on the right day.
- What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading? I haven't yet read any Toni Morrison.
- What is your favorite novel? Helifino. Didn't we cover this above?
- Play? Hamlet or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
- Poem? The Odyssey.
- Essay? MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail.
- Short story? No idea. Short stories come and go like rainclouds in my world.
- Work of nonfiction? Dan Savage's The Commitment.
- Who is your favorite writer? Depends on the day.
- Who is the most overrated writer alive today? That daffy Twilight maiden.
- What is your desert island book? A Memory of Light, Volumes 1-3.
- And... what are you reading right now? Larry Niven and Steven Barnes' The Descent of Anansi, regrettably. I need some new reading material, not much has lit me up this year.
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