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Better late than never...
1. Which book are you currently reading?
Rereading Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
2. What book did you read last?
Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. I had to put it down in the middle MONTHS ago because it was breaking my heart. Just picked it up again and finished it, and it's delicious.
3. What book are you planning on reading next?
Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver! It's in my bag right now. CHEM! PUNK!
4. Do you own most of the books you read, or do you borrow them from a library?
Lately I've been owning them all. The little Austin Public Libraries disillusion me, after having access to university interlibrary loan and the internet. Not Enough Information. And Half-Price Books is a wonder of random book-findery.
5. Who was your favourite author when you were a child?
C.S. Lewis, Susan Cooper, Tamara Pierce, Michael Ende, J.R.R. Tolkien, Robin McKinley, Terry Brooks (No! Say it ain't so!), Douglas Adams.
6. What were some of your favourite books when you were a child?
I adored the Littles books - tiny people with tails, living in your walls! I didn't yet realize that they were a direct knockoff of the Borrowers. *Grin* Also read too much Greek mythology and Robin Hood lore for my own good.
7. Which literary character would you like to take out on a date and why?
Huck Finn! 'Cause he's the hotness. *Grin* Grown up a little bit, of course. I deeply respect his survival skills, his sense of humor, and his personal morality. He's also a barefoot kind of boy.
8. Which author would you most like to have a `one-to-one' with?
Terri Windling, actually. She's a student of folklore, she's at the center of a group of FAScinating people, and she's an editor. She seems very genuine, with no fakeness about her. My answer might change tomorrow, though.
9. Which fictional character would you most like to have a 'one-to-one' with?
Gad, this is agony to decide. Maybe Willow from BTVS? She's TV, but I care not. I've been wanting to thump her solidly on the head for a while now...
10. Which literary character would you least like to be stranded on a desert island with and why?
Mary Bennett from Pride and Prejudice. I can't imagine a more useless and annoying person for that sort of situation. Okay, I can, but they're all horrible cliches and I'd at least feel a sense of freedom and relief when I was compelled to knock them unconscious and throw them into the surf. I don't think I could kill Mary Bennett - some of her most annoying qualities ride a little too closely to my own.
11. Which character would you most like to be stranded with?
Hee. Right now? Bobby Shaftoe, from Cryptonomicon. He'd be patient when patience was needed and throw a tantrum when it all got TOO FRICKING MUCH! We could alternate between building wonderfully sturdy rafts and running in terror from morphine-imagined giant lizards. Plus, haiku.
12. In which literary/fictional location would you most like to live?
Something...complex. I love the hoodoo-laden post-apocalyptic world of Emma Bull's Bone Dance, and Bordertown is spiff, though occasionally a bit twee. I like the shifting world of John Crowley's Aegypt books, where the laws of the universe are changing into something new and strange you have only the barest inkling of. Mary Gentle's Rats and Gargoyles would also be nifty - gritty and alchemical.
13. Which is the best TV/film adaptation of a book you have seen? why?
I have to agree with everybody else - LOTR is pretty damn spiffy, even if they did muck up Faramir in the most recent one. It's one of the few adaptations where all the tiny DETAILS are there, you know? The brooches on the Lothlorien cloaks, Sam's oliphaunt...beauty. It FEELS like a book.
14. Which is worst TV/film adaption of a book you have seen? why?
Oh, there are so many. I remember screeeeaaaming at the screen while watching Practical Magic - I had just read Alice Hoffman's book and loved its delicacy and subtlety, and there was the movie, with weird zombie demon fights and shit. Gak. The current champion, though, has GOT to be League of Extraordinary Gentleman.
15. What film adaption do you actually like more than the book?
Fight Club. I also like the chopped movie-ending of A Clockwork Orange better than the uncut Anthony Burgess approved book-ending, but the book still scores high points for the sheer LANGUAGE of it.
16. What book do you like better than the film adaption?
Almost all of them, really, except those mentioned above. Hee - even though they're not dirECTly correlated, I'm going to dork out and say I like the Timothy Zahn Star Wars sequels FAR more than the Lucas-penned pieces-of-tripe movie prequels.
17. What are your top 5 favourite books?
Off the top of my head, hey?
John Crowley - Little, Big (Always somewhere on the list.)
Neal Stephenson - Snowcrash (Cause I'm about to read his newest.)
Tim Powers - Last Call (Tim Powers. Such a god.)
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange (I'm feeling rebellious.)
Tanith Lee - Biting the Sun (Two books collected. It's vonderful, I lurf it - more rebellion.)
18. Who is your favourite author?
This is impossible. *Grin* Favourite...what a many-layered word. I'm going to say Neal Stephenson right now, seeing as I just paid full price for his new hardback, and I'm a tight-fisted wench.
19. What is the most memorable line delivered in a film?
MOST memorable? The one I seem to be quoting the most right now is "Lord's fucking name!" from Boondock Saints.
20. What is your least favourite book and why?
I have long standing animosity toward both Ethan Frome and My Antonia. (I laugh my ass off every time Martin Blank talks about "that horrible Ethan-Frome damage" in Grosse Pointe Blank.) The Pearl also frustrated the fuck out of me. Of books that I wasn't forced to read for classes, I think She's Come Undone takes the cake. Bought it in an airport bookshop, threw it out when I reached my destination. God, I hated that thing. Could NOT empathize with the main character at ALL.
21. If your life was a book, which author would you choose to write it?
I still love Greer Ilene Gilman - Moonwise tends to read like I think, all random literary reference and snatches of ballads, correlations and song. I'd just need to have adventures worthy of the writing.
1. Which book are you currently reading?
Rereading Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
2. What book did you read last?
Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. I had to put it down in the middle MONTHS ago because it was breaking my heart. Just picked it up again and finished it, and it's delicious.
3. What book are you planning on reading next?
Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver! It's in my bag right now. CHEM! PUNK!
4. Do you own most of the books you read, or do you borrow them from a library?
Lately I've been owning them all. The little Austin Public Libraries disillusion me, after having access to university interlibrary loan and the internet. Not Enough Information. And Half-Price Books is a wonder of random book-findery.
5. Who was your favourite author when you were a child?
C.S. Lewis, Susan Cooper, Tamara Pierce, Michael Ende, J.R.R. Tolkien, Robin McKinley, Terry Brooks (No! Say it ain't so!), Douglas Adams.
6. What were some of your favourite books when you were a child?
I adored the Littles books - tiny people with tails, living in your walls! I didn't yet realize that they were a direct knockoff of the Borrowers. *Grin* Also read too much Greek mythology and Robin Hood lore for my own good.
7. Which literary character would you like to take out on a date and why?
Huck Finn! 'Cause he's the hotness. *Grin* Grown up a little bit, of course. I deeply respect his survival skills, his sense of humor, and his personal morality. He's also a barefoot kind of boy.
8. Which author would you most like to have a `one-to-one' with?
Terri Windling, actually. She's a student of folklore, she's at the center of a group of FAScinating people, and she's an editor. She seems very genuine, with no fakeness about her. My answer might change tomorrow, though.
9. Which fictional character would you most like to have a 'one-to-one' with?
Gad, this is agony to decide. Maybe Willow from BTVS? She's TV, but I care not. I've been wanting to thump her solidly on the head for a while now...
10. Which literary character would you least like to be stranded on a desert island with and why?
Mary Bennett from Pride and Prejudice. I can't imagine a more useless and annoying person for that sort of situation. Okay, I can, but they're all horrible cliches and I'd at least feel a sense of freedom and relief when I was compelled to knock them unconscious and throw them into the surf. I don't think I could kill Mary Bennett - some of her most annoying qualities ride a little too closely to my own.
11. Which character would you most like to be stranded with?
Hee. Right now? Bobby Shaftoe, from Cryptonomicon. He'd be patient when patience was needed and throw a tantrum when it all got TOO FRICKING MUCH! We could alternate between building wonderfully sturdy rafts and running in terror from morphine-imagined giant lizards. Plus, haiku.
12. In which literary/fictional location would you most like to live?
Something...complex. I love the hoodoo-laden post-apocalyptic world of Emma Bull's Bone Dance, and Bordertown is spiff, though occasionally a bit twee. I like the shifting world of John Crowley's Aegypt books, where the laws of the universe are changing into something new and strange you have only the barest inkling of. Mary Gentle's Rats and Gargoyles would also be nifty - gritty and alchemical.
13. Which is the best TV/film adaptation of a book you have seen? why?
I have to agree with everybody else - LOTR is pretty damn spiffy, even if they did muck up Faramir in the most recent one. It's one of the few adaptations where all the tiny DETAILS are there, you know? The brooches on the Lothlorien cloaks, Sam's oliphaunt...beauty. It FEELS like a book.
14. Which is worst TV/film adaption of a book you have seen? why?
Oh, there are so many. I remember screeeeaaaming at the screen while watching Practical Magic - I had just read Alice Hoffman's book and loved its delicacy and subtlety, and there was the movie, with weird zombie demon fights and shit. Gak. The current champion, though, has GOT to be League of Extraordinary Gentleman.
15. What film adaption do you actually like more than the book?
Fight Club. I also like the chopped movie-ending of A Clockwork Orange better than the uncut Anthony Burgess approved book-ending, but the book still scores high points for the sheer LANGUAGE of it.
16. What book do you like better than the film adaption?
Almost all of them, really, except those mentioned above. Hee - even though they're not dirECTly correlated, I'm going to dork out and say I like the Timothy Zahn Star Wars sequels FAR more than the Lucas-penned pieces-of-tripe movie prequels.
17. What are your top 5 favourite books?
Off the top of my head, hey?
John Crowley - Little, Big (Always somewhere on the list.)
Neal Stephenson - Snowcrash (Cause I'm about to read his newest.)
Tim Powers - Last Call (Tim Powers. Such a god.)
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange (I'm feeling rebellious.)
Tanith Lee - Biting the Sun (Two books collected. It's vonderful, I lurf it - more rebellion.)
18. Who is your favourite author?
This is impossible. *Grin* Favourite...what a many-layered word. I'm going to say Neal Stephenson right now, seeing as I just paid full price for his new hardback, and I'm a tight-fisted wench.
19. What is the most memorable line delivered in a film?
MOST memorable? The one I seem to be quoting the most right now is "Lord's fucking name!" from Boondock Saints.
20. What is your least favourite book and why?
I have long standing animosity toward both Ethan Frome and My Antonia. (I laugh my ass off every time Martin Blank talks about "that horrible Ethan-Frome damage" in Grosse Pointe Blank.) The Pearl also frustrated the fuck out of me. Of books that I wasn't forced to read for classes, I think She's Come Undone takes the cake. Bought it in an airport bookshop, threw it out when I reached my destination. God, I hated that thing. Could NOT empathize with the main character at ALL.
21. If your life was a book, which author would you choose to write it?
I still love Greer Ilene Gilman - Moonwise tends to read like I think, all random literary reference and snatches of ballads, correlations and song. I'd just need to have adventures worthy of the writing.
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I forgot the Borrowers when I was filling mine out. Those were fun.