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dokkaebi1) What author do you own the most books by?
Oh geez, probably K. A. Applegate or R. L. Stine. I was a rabid Animorphs and Goosebumps fan, and I'm pretty sure I still have most of those boxed up somewhere.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
There are three copies of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in my house, in English, Korean, and Irish Gaelic. Although technically the Korean one's my mum's. I also own a couple copies of the Middle English Gawain and the Green Knight, with different translations.
3) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
I make no secret of my affections for litfigs! Leading contenders for my bookwormy heart are Mordred (various Arthuriana), Lee Scoresby (His Dark Materials), Edward Forrester (Anita Blake), Rorschach (Watchmen), and Cato Tillson (Resolution) no idea how that last one happened; he's barely in the book and the book ain't that great.
4) What book have you read more than any other?
S'likely a toss-up between The Golden Compass, Obsidian Butterfly, and The Man Who Was Thursday.
5) What was your favorite book when you were 10-years-old?
Probably The Golden Compass. (I still can't think of it as Northern Lights) I also really liked Anne Rice and the Redwall series at that age.
6) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Nothing in particularly stands out in my mind as an utter waste of pulp.
7) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Hm. I really liked Chris Wooding's The Fade.
8) If you could tell everyone you know to read one book, what would it be?
The Man Who Was Thursday.
9) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
I've been trying to get through House of Leaves on and off for eight years and still haven't made it. Someone please tell me if I need to read all of Zampano's footnotes. And hacking through Pynchon's Against the Day was sometimes a trial, though not without its rewards.
10) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Writerwise, I rather prefer the English.
11) Shakespeare, Milton or Chaucer?
MARLOWE, YOU ELITIST SHITS.
12) Austen Or Eliot?
George or T.S.? Whatever. Chesterton!
13) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
My entire last year of college, when I only read comic books and nonfiction (mostly about comic books).
14) What is your favorite novel?
They are legion, for they are many.
15) Play?
I wish I could say Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" orGoldman's "The Lion in Winter," but I have read neither all the way through. So right now it's probably "Innocence" by Frank McGuinness.
16) Poem?
"The Second Coming," like everyone and hir mother.
17) Essay?
Nothing comes to mind, though Douglas Adams and Anne Lamott are probably my favorite essayists.
18) Short story?
Salinger's "Perfect Day for Bananafish."
19) Non-fiction?
Not in Kansas Anymore.
20) Graphic novel?
Okay, so let's get something straight. When I say "graphic novel," what I mean is "single, entirely self-contained volume that exceeds 60 pages." In which case it'd probably be Watchmen. But if we're talking comics but are pussying out of using the term "comic books," then A.) fuck you, and B.) Sandman, The Boys, Trigun, Blade of the Immortal, The Invisibles, and Transmetropolitan. Yes, I'm including manga, which I think deserve their own classification due to the huge honking stylistic differences between a good many East Asian and Western "juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer."
21) Memoir?
There was one I rather liked, but I seem to have forgotten it.
22) History?
I've read a few about Doc Holliday and Nikola Tesla that I rather liked. Can't recall titles, though.
23) Mystery or noir?
Karr's Idylls of the Queen.
24)Science fiction?
Legion.
25) Who is your favorite writer?
Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Elizabeth E. Wein, Chris Wooding... Legion.
26) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Motherfucking Dan Brown jaysuschrist.
27) What are you reading right now?
Fast Ships, Black Sails
Paper Cities
and am about to get my grubby paws on Brimstone :D
Oh geez, probably K. A. Applegate or R. L. Stine. I was a rabid Animorphs and Goosebumps fan, and I'm pretty sure I still have most of those boxed up somewhere.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
There are three copies of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in my house, in English, Korean, and Irish Gaelic. Although technically the Korean one's my mum's. I also own a couple copies of the Middle English Gawain and the Green Knight, with different translations.
3) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
I make no secret of my affections for litfigs! Leading contenders for my bookwormy heart are Mordred (various Arthuriana), Lee Scoresby (His Dark Materials), Edward Forrester (Anita Blake), Rorschach (Watchmen), and Cato Tillson (Resolution) no idea how that last one happened; he's barely in the book and the book ain't that great.
4) What book have you read more than any other?
S'likely a toss-up between The Golden Compass, Obsidian Butterfly, and The Man Who Was Thursday.
5) What was your favorite book when you were 10-years-old?
Probably The Golden Compass. (I still can't think of it as Northern Lights) I also really liked Anne Rice and the Redwall series at that age.
6) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Nothing in particularly stands out in my mind as an utter waste of pulp.
7) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Hm. I really liked Chris Wooding's The Fade.
8) If you could tell everyone you know to read one book, what would it be?
The Man Who Was Thursday.
9) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
I've been trying to get through House of Leaves on and off for eight years and still haven't made it. Someone please tell me if I need to read all of Zampano's footnotes. And hacking through Pynchon's Against the Day was sometimes a trial, though not without its rewards.
10) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Writerwise, I rather prefer the English.
11) Shakespeare, Milton or Chaucer?
MARLOWE, YOU ELITIST SHITS.
12) Austen Or Eliot?
George or T.S.? Whatever. Chesterton!
13) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
My entire last year of college, when I only read comic books and nonfiction (mostly about comic books).
14) What is your favorite novel?
They are legion, for they are many.
15) Play?
I wish I could say Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" orGoldman's "The Lion in Winter," but I have read neither all the way through. So right now it's probably "Innocence" by Frank McGuinness.
16) Poem?
"The Second Coming," like everyone and hir mother.
17) Essay?
Nothing comes to mind, though Douglas Adams and Anne Lamott are probably my favorite essayists.
18) Short story?
Salinger's "Perfect Day for Bananafish."
19) Non-fiction?
Not in Kansas Anymore.
20) Graphic novel?
Okay, so let's get something straight. When I say "graphic novel," what I mean is "single, entirely self-contained volume that exceeds 60 pages." In which case it'd probably be Watchmen. But if we're talking comics but are pussying out of using the term "comic books," then A.) fuck you, and B.) Sandman, The Boys, Trigun, Blade of the Immortal, The Invisibles, and Transmetropolitan. Yes, I'm including manga, which I think deserve their own classification due to the huge honking stylistic differences between a good many East Asian and Western "juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer."
21) Memoir?
There was one I rather liked, but I seem to have forgotten it.
22) History?
I've read a few about Doc Holliday and Nikola Tesla that I rather liked. Can't recall titles, though.
23) Mystery or noir?
Karr's Idylls of the Queen.
24)Science fiction?
Legion.
25) Who is your favorite writer?
26) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Motherfucking Dan Brown jaysuschrist.
27) What are you reading right now?
Fast Ships, Black Sails
Paper Cities
and am about to get my grubby paws on Brimstone :D
