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nirinia Stolen from this post in bookish.
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Guessing here, but one of these I suspect: Roald Dahl, Nabokov, Coetzee, perhaps Stephen King (inherited my Uncle's entire Stephen King collection a few years back)
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Donna Tartt's The Secret History, I own two copies of it.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Not beyond making me want to rephrase them; because they sounded off, somehow. Maybe it is the prepositions?
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
No one, I'm afraid I'm a bit boring.e
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
The Lord of the Rings, I think, I've read it three times. No, hang on, I've read Julius Caesar four.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Roald Dahl's The Witches or George's Marvellous Medicine
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao springs to mind.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Er, Coetzee's Disgrace. I think I read it this year.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
I don't know, it depends so much on the person. Either Disgrace, something by Nabokov or The Secret History. Or Bolaño's 2666.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
Bolaño.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
At this point in time, The Housekeeper and the Professor. The entire blooming book is like a Japanese movie as it is.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Again, errr, don't know. Depends on the adaption.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I don't remember dreams.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Anne Rice?
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Bolaño's 2666.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Haven't really seen any of the more obscure ones.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Russians.
18) Roth or Updike?
Both.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Haven't heard of either.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Milton or Chaucer, Chaucer I think.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Austen.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I lack a lot of the Russians, and I've read far too little in Norwegian.
23) What is your favourite novel?
I don't know. I love a lot of novels for different reasons, my shelves are full of favourites.
24) Play?
Bikubesong.
25) Poem?
'The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock', or 'Preludes'. Both by Elliot. And André Bjerke's silly poetry.
26) Essay?
T.S. Eliot's 'The Perfect Critic' or Nabokov's on readers (the name escapes me).
27) Short story?
I never remember names, but two collections that stand out are Gordimer's Beethoven was One Sixteenth Black and Bolaño's The Last Evenings on Earth.
28) Work of nonfiction?
A Room of One's Own, Woolf.
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Coetzee, Nabokov, Woolf, Tolkien or Bolaño. Nabokov for the pure language delight; Coetzee, Woolf and Bolaño for their technique; Tolkien for his story-telling.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephanie Meyer. But then again, she is not rated as a writer, non?
31) What is your desert island book?
32) And... what are you reading right now?
Among other things, Bolaño's The Savage Detectives
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Guessing here, but one of these I suspect: Roald Dahl, Nabokov, Coetzee, perhaps Stephen King (inherited my Uncle's entire Stephen King collection a few years back)
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Donna Tartt's The Secret History, I own two copies of it.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Not beyond making me want to rephrase them; because they sounded off, somehow. Maybe it is the prepositions?
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
No one, I'm afraid I'm a bit boring.e
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
The Lord of the Rings, I think, I've read it three times. No, hang on, I've read Julius Caesar four.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Roald Dahl's The Witches or George's Marvellous Medicine
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao springs to mind.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Er, Coetzee's Disgrace. I think I read it this year.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
I don't know, it depends so much on the person. Either Disgrace, something by Nabokov or The Secret History. Or Bolaño's 2666.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
Bolaño.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
At this point in time, The Housekeeper and the Professor. The entire blooming book is like a Japanese movie as it is.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Again, errr, don't know. Depends on the adaption.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I don't remember dreams.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Anne Rice?
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Bolaño's 2666.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Haven't really seen any of the more obscure ones.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Russians.
18) Roth or Updike?
Both.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Haven't heard of either.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Milton or Chaucer, Chaucer I think.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Austen.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I lack a lot of the Russians, and I've read far too little in Norwegian.
23) What is your favourite novel?
I don't know. I love a lot of novels for different reasons, my shelves are full of favourites.
24) Play?
Bikubesong.
25) Poem?
'The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock', or 'Preludes'. Both by Elliot. And André Bjerke's silly poetry.
26) Essay?
T.S. Eliot's 'The Perfect Critic' or Nabokov's on readers (the name escapes me).
27) Short story?
I never remember names, but two collections that stand out are Gordimer's Beethoven was One Sixteenth Black and Bolaño's The Last Evenings on Earth.
28) Work of nonfiction?
A Room of One's Own, Woolf.
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Coetzee, Nabokov, Woolf, Tolkien or Bolaño. Nabokov for the pure language delight; Coetzee, Woolf and Bolaño for their technique; Tolkien for his story-telling.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephanie Meyer. But then again, she is not rated as a writer, non?
31) What is your desert island book?
32) And... what are you reading right now?
Among other things, Bolaño's The Savage Detectives
