On a roll, so Book Meme

[debetesse]

You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
I'll cheat. The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide (or whatever it is they call the Big Blue Book). I don't think society should lose that one.

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Only since I can remember. Many times.

The last book you bought is:
Fiction: Wicked. 3/4 of the way through now. Loving it.

Nonfiction: Freakanomics. For my dad, but I'll end up reading it.

The last book you read:
What did I finish last...either "The Strange Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime" or "Good Omens". I read a lot on the England trip. And most of it pretty British.

What are you currently reading?
A Brief History of Nearly Everything, Wicked, and, sort of, just started, Cavalier and Clay.

Five books you would take to a deserted island:
1) Big Blue Hitchhiker Book. Not that it never gets old, but I could read that forever.
2) If it's a few years from now, the Complete Harry Potter (there is so gonna be a 1-volume edition). If now, A Wrinkle in Time.
3) The Lord of the Rings. As long as there's HHGTTG to break it up with, and I can read outloud, I'm set.
4) Worst Case Scenario Book (as placeholder for survival guide/How to have the most comfortable life possible out of contact with civilization).
5) Oh, lets go for All-British-All-the-Time. Complete Shakespeare.

Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?
I really have no idea who has done it already, but
Kristin (because I like feeling uneducated), Hil (Because I expect interestingly different/same answers), and Aimee (The same thing, in a rather different way)

Comments

[pix-kristin.livejournal.com]

Passing the stick to me?? The Brown University grad likes feeling "uneducated"?? Hee!

Okay...the alternative is doing some grading in my plan period this morning, and phooey on that. Today's my last day before vacation and my grades are turned in. No thinking for me!

You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
I am confused by this question. Which book of the books that get burned? I don't want to be any of the books! Going up in flames has never been a hobby of mine.

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Oh yes. Most notably,Cyrano de Bergerac (because, dude...SO smart and funny and a hell of a swordfighter).

The last book you bought is:
Fiction: The Kite Runner. I liked it, but not as much as I'd been lef to believe I would.

Nonfiction: London 360. It's a photography collection of architechture and people in London. I bought it as a gift for my favorite former student as a thank you for writing me an incredible letter of recommendation for my professor application to Quinnipiac. She was one of the kids who went to England with the student group I led last year, so I thought the book would be an appropriate gift.

The last book you read:
Hmmm...I think The Kite Runner, as I mentioned above. I also recently read In Her Shoes, which was fluffy and fun but fizzled out in the end into cliche.

What are you currently reading?
Naked by David Sedaris. I also need to pick up a couple of other books for the plane ride tomorrow.

Five books you would take to a deserted island:
1) Seconding Abi: "Big Blue Hitchhiker Book. Not that it never gets old, but I could read that forever."
2) The James Herriot All Creatures Great and Small series, which I adore and have read a thousand times yet never seems to get old.
3) Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff, because it is one of my all-time favorites.
4) A really good poetry anthology with a variety of poems from different time periods and in different styles. I like Garrison Keiller's Good Poems, so maybe I'd pick that one. I also like the Poem a Day books for the same reason.
5) Robin Hobbs' nine-book fantasy series (I know, I'm cheating...but they might be all in one big book someday...), because it's a genre I love and has characters and stories I get lost in.

[debetesse.livejournal.com]

It's a culture thing. I have shallow bredth, so I can fake it a lot, but still feel lost most of the time.

in F451, because books were being burned, people "became" books (ideally, memorized them so they wouldn't be lost). The protaganist "was" Ecclestiastes (but doing a pretty half-assed job of it, if you ask me). So, it's a combination of what you think shouldn't be lost, and what you would like to be the manifestation of.

I feel all smart, for a non-poetry-type. I've got Good Poems. It's sitting half-read, but I've liked a lot of them.

[pix-kristin.livejournal.com]

Oh right! I'd forgotten about the people becoming books thing. It's been awhile since I've read F451.

In that case, I think I'd become Tim O'Brien'sThe Things They Carried, because it is such an amazing book that tells a truth about war I've never seen portrayed better.