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[ltmurnau]

scuttle's Book Meme :

What's your current favorite book?: Currently reading Frogmen of Burma, hoping it might turn into an idea for a game.

Who's your current favorite author?: J.G. Ballard

What's the first book you ever obsessed over?: Coup d'Etat by Edward Luttwak. Or 1984.

Who's your favorite poet?: Diane di Prima. Or Charles Bukowski.

Your favorite short story author?: J.G. Ballard

What's your favorite genre?: Can't decide single favourite - history and cheap old science fiction.

What's your least favorite genre?: Aie, there's so much out there to hate. Over 95% of all that's published in a year is unadulterated crap, and that's been true since the invention of movable type.

What's your "comfort book"?: Hard to say, I don't re-read books more than three or four times.

Who are your five favorite authors?: J.G. Ballard, William Gibson, Hunter S. Thompson, George Orwell, ME.

Do you ever skip to the end to find out what happens?: No.

What's the worst book you ever read?: Can't pick just one.

The funniest book?: Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis.

The saddest book?: Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. Or maybe Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham.

Has a book ever made you cry? No.

What's the book you love to recommend to people?: Lucky Jim.

What's the first section you go to when you walk into a bookstore?: SF.

Do you buy books, or get them at the library or from friends?: All three.

What's the most you've ever paid for a book?: $95 for a very old atlas.

Was it worth it?: No; it was a wedding present so I never even got a good look at it. It was appreciated, though.

Will you buy a book in hardcover or wait for it to come out in paperback?: I would wait for paperback or for it to hit the remainder stacks.

What's a book you bought on a whim, then regretted later?: Can't think of one; there have been so many that proved useless later. Probably some history book.

How did you get turned onto your favorite book?: Stole it.

Do you/did you enjoy the short stories in English class textbooks?: One or two.

What book have you read the most times?: toss up between Lucky Jim and Crash by J.G. Ballard.

Do you ever finish a book and immediately start to read it over?: No.

How do you feel about turning books into movies?: It can work when done well.

What's the best book-to-movie?: 1984, Crash.

What's the worst book-to-movie?: Don't know; there are so many.

Have you ever gotten in trouble from reading when you weren't supposed to?: Used to get in trouble for staying up late reading under the covers with a flashlight. Sometimes I get the Silent Treatment for making it clear I prefer to read than talk about what kind of noodles should be for sale in Fairway.

Have you ever made a new friend from noticing the book they're reading?: Kinda sorta - Doom Cookie was reading Gravity's Rainbow.

Do you prefer books that take place in another world or time period?: time period.

If you could live in any book's "world", which would you choose?: None.

Who's your favorite fictional hero?: Jim Dixon from Lucky Jim.

Who's your favorite fictional heroine?: None really. I liked Kira Argounova from We the Living back when I was in my Ayn Rand phase.

Who's your favorite fictional villain?: O'Brien, from 1984.

What book character do you hate?: Can't think of one; they're just inventions.

Have you ever, for any reason, dressed up as a character in a book?: No.

Have you ever written fanfiction or done fanart?: God, no.

Do you have a website dedicated to any of your favorite books?: I have some links on my website to some favourite authors.

Are you into any big-hype books, like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings?: No. I almost never read best-sellers.

What book you have with you/next to you right now?: In Retrospect, Robert S. McNamara's memoir of when he was Secretary of Defence during the Vietnam War.