Book Q & A stolen from WA
Thu May 28 2009

1. What author do you own the most books by?
It's a toss between Anne McCaffrey, Janet Evanovich, Robert Heinlein, and Frank Herbert

2. What book do you own the most copies of?
Twilight

3. Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Nope!

4. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Wolverine, I’ve had a crush on him since Uncanny X-Men 94 the summer of 1975.

5. What book have you read the most times in your life?
Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" (Which resembles the mini-series in name only)

6. What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
The Good Master by Kate Seredy

7. What is the worst book you’ve read?
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

8. What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
4 books actually, the Twilight series.

9. If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
A dictionary. If you have to force someone to read, they probably don’t read much and therefore are likely to be bad spellers.

10. Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
not a clue

11. What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Stranger in a Strange Land

12. What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
War and Peace… oh wait, it’s been done hasn’t it. Pity.

13. Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
Wolverine, Janet Evanovich, and a cruise that I had no idea how I got on, or why some of the passengers were wearing brightly colored spandex. Just a side note here, I don’t often drink tequila for this and several other reasons.

14. What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?
“Almost Heaven”, but it was somewhat redeemed by comedy.

15. What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
Beowulf, in old English

16. What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you’ve seen?
I’ve only seen Hamlet and Romeo + Juliet.

17. Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Neither

18. Roth or Updike?
Neither,

19. David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
who?

20. Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
None of the above

21. Austen or Eliot?
Neither

22. What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Almost all of the classics

23. What is your favorite novel?
There are soooooooooo many........

24. Play?
Sure, why not?

25. Poem?
dirty limericks please.

26. Essay?
no thanks

27. Short story?
can’t think of one I like at the moment (I’m a bit tired)

28. Work of non-fiction?
Anything by James Herriott

29. Who is your favorite writer?
It depends on what day you ask me.

30. Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
There are soooooooooo many........

31. What is your desert island book?
JUST ONE?????? Scarlett… no, Dune… no, One For the Money… no, Stranger in a Strange Land… no, Clear and Present Danger… no, All the Weyrs of Pern… no…
Does a comic book collection count as one book? No?
Do I get a lifeline on this question?

32. And … what are you reading right now?
Paul of Dune

3 Comments
  • From:
    Nibbles (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri May 29 2009
    But, what about your knee?
  • From:
    Welshamethyst (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri May 29 2009
    I'm a bad speller and a voracious reader. Go figure!
  • From:
    Kaliko88 (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat May 30 2009
    Definitely agree on the Thomas Covenant series. Couldn't get past the first few chapters of the first book before I wanted to burn it. Hmm, I wonder what I would answer.

    >^..^<