Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Nicked from
Larry.
1. One book that changed your life.The Twits by Roald Dahl. It was the Ramos-admin brownout summer, and my aunt lent me the book to keep me from whining too much over the heat and the lack of a working Family Computer. It was the first children's book I had read that tortured grown-ups mercilessly just for being grown-ups, and it made me realize that people could write very, very mean stories because they had very, very good points behind them, and that you didn't have to be a grown-up to read or write something vicious.
2. One book you have read more than once.The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, the book that kept me from dropping out of high school. Up until last year, when I just couldn't bring myself to, I read
Perks every single September, and made sure to read my favorite chapter on my birthday. I hope I have enough EQ this September to continue with the tradition.
3. One book you would want on a desert island.I'm thinking something long. I'm thinking Dave Eggers' memoir
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, so I could feel hopeful and entertained at the same time. I'm saying 'hopeful' because when you give me a desert island question, I'm already set on the idea that I will just be waiting for some rescue team to get me out of there, because no way am I staying on a fucking island alone.
4. One book that made you laugh.Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins. The HegEmoness lent this to me last year, and I still haven't come across anything else that cracked me up that way. It also has one of the best last lines EVAR.
5. One book that made you cry.Monkeys by Susan Minot. My mom gave me a copy she found in a Booksale when I was eight, and although I loved it then, it was when I was sixteen and re-read it that the book blew my mind. There's a chapter there about a house party, and of course it was only when I had become a teenager that I finally understood how depressing high school parties really were. I was bawling.
6. One book you wish had been written.I think Roald Dahl was working on another children's novel before he died. I would've loved to read that, especially since it would've been set in the 80s or 90s, most likely.
7. One book you wish had never been written.Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. COULD YOU STOP IT?!?!?!?!??! I had never been more annoyed being slathered in sap and self-righteousness. Shit.
8. One book you are currently reading.Past Perfect, Present Tense by Richard Peck. Javie lent this to me last week. Peck is a short story writer for children, and most of his stuff here falls way, way, way flat. As in the type of stories that make you go "nyorknyorknyooooork" when you reach the end. There are a couple really good ones, though, so I haven't put it down yet.
9. One book you have been meaning to readExtremely Loud, Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, the Boy Who Can Do No Wrong. Wench Eigenmann got the copy I borrowed from Javie because I had left it on the dashboard. Wench!
10. Tag five people.Twinkle,
Peachy, Heg
Emoness,
Kael,
Naya
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