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1) What author do you own the most books by?
Ummm… Hard to say. Jim Butcher is up there because I own all of his books (and multiple copies of some of them WHY MUST YOU CHANGE THE COVER ART HALFWAY THROUGH?) plus the anthologies his short stories are in. Margaret Peterson Haddix is up there too. And if Franklin W. Dixon counts as a single author, he wins by a landslide.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
… Sadly, this is a five or six-way tie. I have 3 or 4 copies of Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells (and a hardcover! WHOOOO!), 3 or 4 copies of His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik and 3 or 4 copies of Nightlife by Rob Thurman. I also have multiple copies of A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, 2 copies of The Complete Sherlock Holmes (which is why I can’t justify buying the Annotated but I wants it, my precious, I does), 3 copies of World War Z (if hardcover, trade and audio all count as one title, and I’m saying they do). Also, I have three copies of Thick As Thieves #29 and Brother Against Brother #11 of the Hardy Boys Casefiles, for reasons that are insanely embarrassing (but probably not hard to figure out).
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No, because that’s a made-up literary rule (so many of them are).
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
I don’t think it’s a secret exactly that I have a huge crush on Harry Dresden or that I want to marry Kuwabara Kazuma. And if Remy LeBeau showed up at any point I would happy sex him up. And as previously stated in other entries, I’m still clinging to a childhood crush on a giant talking turtle. ^_^ (Other childhood crushes included Joe Hardy, Aladdin and Spock. Shut up.)
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)?
I honestly don’t know. The Adventure of the Three Garridebs by Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles by same. The aforementioned Hardy Boys books. 101 Dalmations by Dottie Smith. Nightlife by Rob Thurman is getting up there, as is His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik and White Knight by Jim Butcher
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old.
101 Dalmations by Dottie Smith and The Fairy Rebel by Lynne Reid Banks.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. I won’t go into a long and complicated reason about why, but suffice it to say I found it to be more or less a travesty.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
I’ve read a ton of really good books lately, so it makes it hard to choose. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (of Gregor the Overlander fame) stands out because it was insanely brilliant and grotesque and hopeful all at once.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
I wouldn’t force everyone to read the same book because not everyone likes the same things and why force someone to read something you know they probably won’t enjoy? On that note, I would love most of my f-list to read Nightlife because the fandom is still tiny. Also Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells. And Elantris by Brandon Sanderson.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
I’ll leave that to the judges.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
The Hunger Games. Also His Majesy’s Dragon and Yu Yu Hakusho by Yoshihiro Togashi. BECAUSE IT WOULD BE AWESOME.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Twilight. Sadly, the world did not hear my pleas for mercy. I’d also say Lord of the Rings because the movies we already have are so fucking gorgeous that the idea of remaking them hurts.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
Yeah, I’m pretty much the Queen of Weird Ass Dreams. Too many to list, although the one where I was scuba-diving looking for lost gold and Will Smith’s character from I am Legend showed up leading a pack of scuba-diving boy scouts and they tried to harpoon me and my team (who included a girl from work, April O’Neill and someone who looked an awful lot like my younger sister but was, in fact, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Undercover.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Well, I read Twilight. I still feel the need to shower whenever I’m reminded of the fact.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Mother-fucking-New Moon the sequel to Twilight which I read on a bet. It was difficult to read because it was even worse than the first one, which I had thought to be a literal impossibility.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
I’m not a big enough fan of Shakespeare to have seen his obscure plays. I did see a version of Hamlet that was set in corporate America. Does that count?
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
I’m going to say Russians, with the understanding that it totally depends on what I’m in the mood for.
18) Roth or Updike?
Pass.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Sedaris is amusing.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Chaucer
21) Austen or Eliot?
Austen (and no, it’s not just because her books have zombies in them you smarty-pants. Wait. What do you mean the originals feature absolutely no zombies? Are you sure?)
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Do I need an embarrassing gap? I’ve already confessed to reading Hardy Boys, Twilight and having a crush on a Ninja Turtle. I’m not sure I need to give you people more ammunition than that.
23) What is your favorite novel?
The list is, like, 30 long. Seriously. Everything mentioned above, seriously. And then some more.
24) Play?
Does Avenue Q count? Because I love me some Christmas Eve.
25) Poem?
I’m not a big poetry fan, but there are poems I like. The Thousandth Man by Kipling. A lot of Shel Silverstein. Other poems that I will not think of until after I post this.
26) Essay?
Self-Reliance by Emerson, just for this line: “These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.”
27) Short story?
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs by Arthur Conan Doyle.
28) Work of nonfiction?
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks.
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Right this moment it’s Jim Butcher, because I’m going crazy waiting for Turncoat. Ask me again tomorrow and I’ll have a different answer for you.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephanie Meyer.
31) What is your desert island book?
WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN ONLY HAVE ONE?
32) And... what are you reading right now?
I’m rereading The Dresden Files before the new one comes out. I also just started the second book in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, which is really rather good.
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Ummm… Hard to say. Jim Butcher is up there because I own all of his books (and multiple copies of some of them WHY MUST YOU CHANGE THE COVER ART HALFWAY THROUGH?) plus the anthologies his short stories are in. Margaret Peterson Haddix is up there too. And if Franklin W. Dixon counts as a single author, he wins by a landslide.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
… Sadly, this is a five or six-way tie. I have 3 or 4 copies of Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells (and a hardcover! WHOOOO!), 3 or 4 copies of His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik and 3 or 4 copies of Nightlife by Rob Thurman. I also have multiple copies of A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, 2 copies of The Complete Sherlock Holmes (which is why I can’t justify buying the Annotated but I wants it, my precious, I does), 3 copies of World War Z (if hardcover, trade and audio all count as one title, and I’m saying they do). Also, I have three copies of Thick As Thieves #29 and Brother Against Brother #11 of the Hardy Boys Casefiles, for reasons that are insanely embarrassing (but probably not hard to figure out).
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No, because that’s a made-up literary rule (so many of them are).
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
I don’t think it’s a secret exactly that I have a huge crush on Harry Dresden or that I want to marry Kuwabara Kazuma. And if Remy LeBeau showed up at any point I would happy sex him up. And as previously stated in other entries, I’m still clinging to a childhood crush on a giant talking turtle. ^_^ (Other childhood crushes included Joe Hardy, Aladdin and Spock. Shut up.)
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)?
I honestly don’t know. The Adventure of the Three Garridebs by Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles by same. The aforementioned Hardy Boys books. 101 Dalmations by Dottie Smith. Nightlife by Rob Thurman is getting up there, as is His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik and White Knight by Jim Butcher
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old.
101 Dalmations by Dottie Smith and The Fairy Rebel by Lynne Reid Banks.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. I won’t go into a long and complicated reason about why, but suffice it to say I found it to be more or less a travesty.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
I’ve read a ton of really good books lately, so it makes it hard to choose. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (of Gregor the Overlander fame) stands out because it was insanely brilliant and grotesque and hopeful all at once.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
I wouldn’t force everyone to read the same book because not everyone likes the same things and why force someone to read something you know they probably won’t enjoy? On that note, I would love most of my f-list to read Nightlife because the fandom is still tiny. Also Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells. And Elantris by Brandon Sanderson.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
I’ll leave that to the judges.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
The Hunger Games. Also His Majesy’s Dragon and Yu Yu Hakusho by Yoshihiro Togashi. BECAUSE IT WOULD BE AWESOME.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Twilight. Sadly, the world did not hear my pleas for mercy. I’d also say Lord of the Rings because the movies we already have are so fucking gorgeous that the idea of remaking them hurts.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
Yeah, I’m pretty much the Queen of Weird Ass Dreams. Too many to list, although the one where I was scuba-diving looking for lost gold and Will Smith’s character from I am Legend showed up leading a pack of scuba-diving boy scouts and they tried to harpoon me and my team (who included a girl from work, April O’Neill and someone who looked an awful lot like my younger sister but was, in fact, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Undercover.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Well, I read Twilight. I still feel the need to shower whenever I’m reminded of the fact.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Mother-fucking-New Moon the sequel to Twilight which I read on a bet. It was difficult to read because it was even worse than the first one, which I had thought to be a literal impossibility.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
I’m not a big enough fan of Shakespeare to have seen his obscure plays. I did see a version of Hamlet that was set in corporate America. Does that count?
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
I’m going to say Russians, with the understanding that it totally depends on what I’m in the mood for.
18) Roth or Updike?
Pass.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Sedaris is amusing.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Chaucer
21) Austen or Eliot?
Austen (and no, it’s not just because her books have zombies in them you smarty-pants. Wait. What do you mean the originals feature absolutely no zombies? Are you sure?)
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Do I need an embarrassing gap? I’ve already confessed to reading Hardy Boys, Twilight and having a crush on a Ninja Turtle. I’m not sure I need to give you people more ammunition than that.
23) What is your favorite novel?
The list is, like, 30 long. Seriously. Everything mentioned above, seriously. And then some more.
24) Play?
Does Avenue Q count? Because I love me some Christmas Eve.
25) Poem?
I’m not a big poetry fan, but there are poems I like. The Thousandth Man by Kipling. A lot of Shel Silverstein. Other poems that I will not think of until after I post this.
26) Essay?
Self-Reliance by Emerson, just for this line: “These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.”
27) Short story?
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs by Arthur Conan Doyle.
28) Work of nonfiction?
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks.
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Right this moment it’s Jim Butcher, because I’m going crazy waiting for Turncoat. Ask me again tomorrow and I’ll have a different answer for you.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephanie Meyer.
31) What is your desert island book?
WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN ONLY HAVE ONE?
32) And... what are you reading right now?
I’m rereading The Dresden Files before the new one comes out. I also just started the second book in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, which is really rather good.
