1) What author do you own the most books by?
Stephen King

2) What book do you own the most copies of?
I don’t do concurrent copies, but I have read The Stand to rags and re-purchased it

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
meh

4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Frodo ::swoon:: And maybe Sam Vimes

5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
The Stand. I reread it once every couple of years. IT is probably a close second.

6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
I’ve no idea

7) What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?
I don’t think I’ve read any bad books, but I’ve gotten some that I just couldn’t get into at the time…Guns, Germs, and Steel and The Extraordinary Madness of Crowds for example

What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
Letter to a Christian Nation

9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
I’m not tagging anybody, but I’d make everyone read Letter to a Christian Nation and maybe The Age of American Unreason and The Shock Doctrine

10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
Someone who can write, obviously…Just give them all to Toni Morrison and save time

11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
I would love to see someone with sense make a Discworld movie. WITH SENSE.

12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Any of Stephen King’s books that haven’t been movie-fied yet. They just ruin them. Lay off!

13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I don’t recall ever having dreamed about any of those things, except maybe IT, and that was more pants-wetting scary than weird…

14) What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?
Depends on your definition…If you think Stephen King is lowbrow, then most of those

15) What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
Several works of Japanese and Chinese literature fit into this category. Gerald’s Game definitely fits.

16) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Bleak and depressing Russians FTW.

18) Roth or Updike?
Never read ‘em

19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Sedaris seems more trendy, so I’ll go for Eggers

20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Chaucer/Shakespeare

21) J. Austen or G. Eliot?
MEH

22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I have read embarrassingly little “classic” “literature.” Stuff like War and Peace, Middlemarch, and so on. (It’s the authors’ fault for including few or no dragons in their books!)

23) What is your favorite novel?
LOTR, of course

24) Play?
I don’t really do plays…

27) Short story?
“The End of the Whole Mess” by (yes, again) Stephen King

28) Work of nonfiction?
The Shock Doctrine and Letter to a Christian Nation, at present

29) Who is your favorite writer?
Right now? Chuck Palahniuk.

30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Ugh, Stephanie Meyer and those dudes who wrote Left Behind. And J. K. Rowling.

31) What is your desert island book?
Someone once asked G.K. Chesterton what book he’d most like to have on a desert island. He answered, “Thomas’s Guide to Practical Shipbuilding.”

32) What are you reading right now?
Sourcery by Terry Pratchett

34) If you knew you would have the chance to read (n.b.: not REread) just one more book/play before you die, what would it be, and why is that?
LOTR – I wouldn’t mind my final moments to be spent traveling to the West

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