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1) What book are you reading right now? The Audacity of Hope Barack Obama.
2) What is the fourth sentence on page 133 of that book? I don't know. It's in the car. Probably something like, "That's when I realized that we're all really the same, with the same wants, needs and hopes."
3) What is one book that changed your life? The Baghavad Gita for Dummies. by Ryan Seacrest.
4) What is one book that you read again and again? Dune by Frank Herbert (Or is it Herbert Frank? I can never remember.)
5) What three books would you want on a desert island? Kama Sutra, How To Survive on Desert Islands by Bob Denver, Kama Sutra for Dummies by David Spade
6) What is the funniest book you've ever read? The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
7) What book made you cry the most? Bible
8) What book do you wish had been written? Creation: Why I Did It I'm not sure who would write it.
9) What would be the title of your autobiography? Gnosis Kenosis
10) What book do you keep meaning to read? Kama Sutra
11) What five books should everyone be required to read? I can only think of one: Gnosis Kenosis
12) What book was the biggest waste of your time? The Neverending Story
13) What was your favorite book as a child? Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.
14) What book have you read the most? Bible
15) Is there any book's ending that you would like to rewrite? What would you change about the original ending? (I want to say Bible, but I don't want to offend anyone. So, instead...) The Neverending Story. What would I change? It would end.
Hello, Collective.
Since I'm short on time, I will skip to the second half of the list of questions:
8) What—
Hey sunglass dude, get away from my list!
8) What book—
No seriously. You're screwing everything up.
8) What book do you—
Yo! Get out of my face, you dick!
8) That's what she said.
Hey, that's not in the script. NOW, we have to start over from the top. We'll do this all day if that's what it takes.
8) I though you said you were out of time ...
Good point.
8) That's what she said.
Scott: "Where the Red Fern..." made me cry like a baby. And by "made" I mean "still does."
1) What book are you reading right now?
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby, cause you know I liked High Fidelity and How To Be Good so much I figured I'd try it. Even though I couldn't get through that damn soccer book of his, oh sorry, Football.
2) What is the fourth sentence on page 133 of that book?
"I wasn't offered a handshake or a cup of coffee; I was ushered into his living room and given a dressing-down, as if I were some hapless parliamentary researcher."
3) What is one book that changed your life?
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
4) What is one book that you read again and again?
I often read my books again and again and then again again. (does that make sense) Usually it's some brainless British chick-lit (yes, I'm admitting it here, I read chick-lit, but usually only of the British persuasion)
5) What three books would you want on a desert island?
To Kill Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and it's a toss up between the Kite Runner/A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Sisterhood of the travelling pants series :)
6) What is the funniest book you've ever read?
Ok, it's totally NOT a book but The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. I realize it's a play, but I totally laughed when I read it. The only other one I can think of is Can You Keep A Secret by Sophie Kinsella...yes of Shopaholic fame, but I hated that book, in it's entirety. Can you keep a secret is actually sort of funny...or maybe I was just that bored when I read it.
7) What book made you cry the most?
The Last Valentine by James Michael Pratt. Lots of books actually make me cry, but I sobbed through this one.
8) What book do you wish had been written?
How to go through reverse culture shock and survive without dreaming of faraway places and just not wanting to be back in your own country and complaining about everything that is different here, even though you complained about everything that was different there (Taiwan). That book would REALLY help right about now.
9) What would be the title of your autobiography?
How To Procrastinate For Dummies.
10) What book do you keep meaning to read?
The Book Of Negroes by Lawrence Hill...because it's been sitting on my floor for months at the recommendation of my sister but she's the one that recommended Atonement so now I'm a little wary.
11) What five books should everyone be required to read?
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Are you There God? It's Me Margret by Judy Bloom, Forever by Judy Bloom, Deenie by Judy Bloom (are you seeing a trend?) Then Again, Maybe I Won't by ...wait for it...Judy Bloom. I think Judy Bloom should be on a required reading list for all adolescence.
12) What book was the biggest waste of your time?
Confessions of a Shopaholic. OMG, so horrible. Oh and The Bridges of Madison County. Oh and the Pilot's wife...I'm so mad at Oprah for those two.
13) What was your favorite book as a child?
Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook....it had the greatest stories in it.
14) What book have you read the most?
oh, I have no idea. Probably the Sesame Street Bedtime storybook because now I'm reading it to my nieces and nephew!
15) Is there any book's ending that you would like to rewrite? What would you change about the original ending?
Wicked....Elphaba wouldn't have died.
geez, that came out way longer than I though.
That's what she said!
(sorry)
I mostly love reading the stuff on the Collective, but I've been kind of hoping all week that I could do the meme. So yeah, I did it over on my blog cause I'm long-winded.
No time for the whole thing, but I'm currently reading "A Girl Named Zippy" by Haven Kimmel by way of H!A!'s intro.
I love it that she was purchased from gypsies.
What book are you reading right now?
With The Old Breed -E.B Sledge. His first-hand account of the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa. Thought by some to be the best memoir to come out of WWII and I’d have to agree so far. No flowery language and no self-censoring.
What is the fourth sentence on page 133 of that book?
‘No one was allowed out of his position after dark.’
What is one book that changed your life?
Charlotte’s Web. I think I read it for the first time when I was around 8 years old, and upon reading the last sentence, I let the book drop to the ground and muttered, ‘Well, fuck me.’ Actually, I probably didn’t mutter that, but I would’ve had I been more profane.
What is one book that you read again and again?
The World of Pooh, which includes both the original Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner. I’ve read this book every year since I was a very profane child and pick it up occasionally just because. It’s like a security blanket.
What three books would you want on a desert island?
The World of Pooh – A.A. Milne
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
A Prayer For Owen Meany – John Irving
What is the funniest book you've ever read?
Close your eyes and point at one by David Sedaris.
What book made you cry the most?
Charlotte’s Web. I remember some masochistic asswipe came out with an animated version of it not long after I read it for the first time. I cried at the end of that, too. Thanks for the heartache, E.B. White! Asshole! No disrespect intended!
What book do you wish had been written?
Charlotte Lives
What would be the title of your autobiography?
Waking from a Weary Night
What book do you keep meaning to read?
Everything by David Foster Wallace. I read Infinite Jest, which was a work of frikkin’ art and his articles for The Atlantic are always great. He has a few other books out there. I was going to get to them, but then I started graduate school and the joke has since been on me.
What five books should everyone be required to read?
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho.
The Things They Carried – Dan O’Brien
Stay Alive, My Son – Pin Yathay
After those, it doesn’t matter. I mean, what is this, a dictatorship?
What book was the biggest waste of your time?
The latest one by Frank McCourt.
Dear Frank McCourt’s agent,
Just because he wrote two good books doesn’t mean you should push him to write a third. Do you see what happens when you get greedy? Are you happy now?
What was your favorite book as a child?
Everything by Dr. Seuss.
What book have you read the most?
A.A. Milne’s take on the world through the eyes of a stuffed bear. I love that fuzzy little jackass. Also, the actual jackass, Eeyore.
Is there any book's ending that you would like to rewrite? What would you change about the original ending?
They’ve all ended pretty much how they were supposed to, I think. Even Charlotte had to die, really.
I thought I did a lot of reading, but the Collective clearly has me beat in that department. The best I can do is this stack of books.
(Yeah, I didn't really follow the meme, exactly. Sometime I have a hard time following directions.)
Sir! Thank you for reminding me about The Things They Carried. I fucking love that book. I read it in high school and in college I used it for my senior thesis.
phone it in friday is making me feel not well read at all. eep.
I pretty much never read books again, but I recently read Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson and wanted to start over the second I finished it.
Other good books I've read recently: Samedi the Deafness by Jesse Ball and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind.
Oh yeah - biggest waste of time: A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body by Lauren Weedman. It was a Powell's staff pick and every review was like, "FUNNIER THAN DAVID SEDARIS COULD EVER DREAM OF!!"
It was uncomfortable and not funny.
I was going to do this meme but then I had a sudden onset of performance anxiety and did not. There's no accounting for my brain.
A big "second" to Jenny's comments on Written on the Body. That book reads like poetry in prose form.
I love books.
I love books, too.
Yay ~ Thanks for the help kat! I get a chance to play along too... I did mine here, though cuz I've been a bad blogger recently.
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