32 Book Meme :D

[amine_eyes]

1) What author do you own the most books by?
Terry Pratchett, but Bernard Cornwell is a close second :D

2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit - we have a billion copies of each, I swear :P

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
*Goes and researches what prepositions are* Nope :D

4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Ahhh ... Earl Pike ("Black Water Tranist" by Carsten Shroud), but that's because I have the image of him in my head as played by Karl Urban, in Armani ... *swoon*

5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
It's a toss up between "The Hobbit" and "Alice in Wonderland" :)

6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
That would be "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" - I devoured that book :D

7) What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?
Erm ... I think it was the Dragon one I pilfered from Nicola,where they basically retold the First World War with Dragons, not even well ... in fact I didn't even finish it! :D

8) What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
"The Burning Land" by Bernard Cornwell - I fully recommend him to anyone, his historical fiction stuff is absolutely amazing :D

9) If you could force everyone you know to read one book, what would it be?
"Catch 22" - brilliant dialogue, brilliant work ... it's work to get through it, but it's worth it :D
That or "Alice in Wonderland" - love it :D

10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
Errrr ... do they have to be current books in the last year? If not, Yann Martel for "Life of Pi", or posthumous for JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis and Edgar Allen Poe :D 

11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
"The Warlord Chronicles" by Bernard Cornwell - it'd be tough, but awesome if it worked :D

12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
"Twilight" ... oh wait ...

13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
See my fanfiction :P

14) What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?
"Mr Ben and the Submarine" - in my defence, I was babysitting my little sister :P

15) What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
"Wuthering Heights" - eurgh ... it took ages ...

16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you’ve seen?
None of the obscure ones - just Tempest, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet (and all due to my English GSCE and A Level!)

17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
How? In coffee? Tea? On toast?

18) Roth or Updike?
No idea who they are, so ...

19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
See above answer ...

20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Hmmm ... toss-up between Shakespeare and Chaucer (The Miller's Tale is funny as heck :D)

21) Austen or Eliot?
I haven't read Eliot, so it'd have to be Austen - Mansfield Park is a good book :D

22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading? 
Erm the classics, or the new classics - I tend to stick to historical fiction or military or Sci-fi/fantasy, so any classics have been due to my English A level. I plan to correct this over the years though :D 

23) What is your favorite novel?
I have to pick one? Bugger ...

24) Play?
Brian Clarke - "Whose Life is it anyway?" - if you ever get to see or read this, do so!!

25) Poem?
Sometimes by Sheila Pugh - short, but hopeful :D (and she refused to let it be used in our GSCE exam - result!)

26) Essay?
"Original Intent and the European Court of Human Rights" by Danny Nicol - not just lawyer-y, historical too :D

27) Short story?
"The Tell Tale Heart" or "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe :D

28) Work of nonfiction?
"Fighter Boys" by Patrick Bishop, or "Fighter Control during the Battle of Britain" - I forget the name of the author - both brilliant accounts of how the Battle formed and went :D

29) Who is your favorite writer?
One? One? You serious? I mean, there's Pratchett, Tolkien, Cornwell ...

30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephanie Meyer! xD

31) What is your desert island book?
"The Lord of the Rings" - I'd never get tired of it :D

32) And… what are you reading right now?
"Criminal Law" by Jones and Christie ... no fiction till after my exams :(

Comments

[little-tristan.livejournal.com]

Ah, so you do know Lizzie. Good on you. A lot of people have trouble with that book, but if you get through it once, it goes down easier the second time. And Pride and Prejudice and Zombies isn't entirely awful.

I have read some Fowles, and I have a couple that I haven't read, and he is an equal opportunity kind of guy. I like that.

Our schools have all these silly ideas that kids, even handicapped kids who get beat up all the time, and who no one wants to play with, have to run around in the rain and get "exercise". Mostly I just got sick. But at least that was an excuse to stay inside and read. :D

[amine-eyes.livejournal.com]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies isn't entirely awful

*snigger* My flatmate bought it ... not a good plan considering she's doing English, the rants were epic :P

Yay for Fowles! I must say, I have only read that book, but as with all the others (my summer's filling up fast), I intend to read more :D

Ah yes, this ... P.E ... I liked PE, right up until RL went down the pan - then it buggered. Luckily I had the library to console me

(though it did get better when we got to Minster, as the ones who actually went to PE were either goody-two shoes like me and my friends, or far more interested in sport-related violence than bullying ... Happy memories, and I still have the scars lol)

Me? Ramble about stuff? Never ...

[little-tristan.livejournal.com]

Yes, an English major with P&P&Z would be a scary thing.:D I enjoyed it mostly because I've read all of her books so many times, it was a little bit like having a new one. Although the ninja stuff really bugged me after a while. I don't understand why the Brits couldn't fight of zombies with their own weapons and philosophy, instead of going all Japanese about it. But comparing certain passages side by side was fun.

PE was the worst. They finally let me off that in grade 7, but the damage was done. Still, I had my books. I never could figure out what all those non-readers had to talk about, but they sure talked a lot.:)

[amine-eyes.livejournal.com]

Sounds amusing ... I may have to read it ... if only to annoy Lorna xD

Grade 7 ... how old is that? 'Cos we weren't allowed off PE till we finished compulsory education in YEar 11 (about 15/16). Indeed, at least the books were there so you could destroy the non-reader's with a well placed insult (and even better, they can't beat you up if they don't know what you're saying! xD)

[little-tristan.livejournal.com]

7th grade is about 12 years old. But I have muscular dystrophy and never should have been put through that in the first place. (My parents just weren't that interested in fighting it when I was younger.) It was cruel and stupid and ate up a lot of muscle I could have used later in life. Not that I'm bitter or anything. ;)

People think I read a lot because it's the only thing I can do, but it's really just luck that I can do what I like best. Writing is a very close second. Or first, depending on the day.:D

[amine-eyes.livejournal.com]

Ah right, that makes sense :)

Ah ... okay, and of course you're not bitter at all ;). It's silly that none of the teachers didn't stop it, you'd think they'd be afraid of you suing them!

That's pretty good luck, especially when you can combine the two and have a nice lot of happiness :D

[little-tristan.livejournal.com]

I used to fantasize about suing. That would have been awesome. I still have a list of gym teachers to spit on should I see them again. And in the meantime, I just trash them in my books. Yes, Chaucer is my hero. Why do you ask? :D

[amine-eyes.livejournal.com]

You could still do it :P

And Chaucer rocks! :D