When Sleep Fails

Literary Meme via Kitten Via Facebook

You have received this note because someone thinks you are a literary geek. Copy the questions into your own note, answer the questions, and tag any friends who would appreciate the quiz, including the person who sent you this. Don't bother trying to italicize your book titles. We know you want to. (Ok, I admit I wasn't tagged. Clay posted it and since I have been up for about 2 days.....)

1.What author do you own the most books by?
At the moment I think that is a three way tie between George R. R. Martin, Jim Butcher and Steven Brust.

2.What book do you own the most copies of?

Technically speaking...mine. I still have about 6 complimentary copies of d20 FBI lying around that I haven't figured out what to do with. Otherwise, I am a book minimalist in that I generally only own one copy of something. However I have OWNED about three different versions of Dragonlance Chronicles at one time or another. It took a while to get a decent hardback.

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

No it did not bother I.

4.What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Nika Lux, but I also have a bit of nostalgia for The necromanceress, Tri'yel, Emma Frost, and Amaranth.

5.What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?

Magician Apprentice. Technically about five times. (Technically there is one other book but I'm trying to forget that one....)

6.What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
The Fellowship of the Ring.

7.What is the worst book you've read in the past year?

"A New World" by Michael Stackpole. Normally I like everything he writes, but I found myself utterly apathetic to anyone in it.

8.What is the best book you've read in the past year?

Anathem by Neal Stephsen.

9. If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?

I'm deliberately not mentioning my first choice for personal reasons.

My second choice would be Increasing Your Financial I.Q. by Richard Kiyosaki. He doesn't get everything right, but broadly speaking if everyone read and incorporated a lot of the more basic things in that book our society would be better off as a whole.

10. What book would you most like to see made into a movie?

Besides one of mine? :) (And of those that would be Grenademan Vs. The Zombies....)

Hmm...Honestly? I'd have to say the Dresden Files, but done as mini series with a guaranteed contract to finish all of them.

11.What book would you least like to see made into a movie?

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel. Awesome book but even if you could film it, it still loose half of what makes it awesome.

12.Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.

Sadly? Too weird to explain but I can try. It involved altering the metaplot of our reality by altering the metaplot of this one. It involved a role playing game I was WAY WAY too invested in that took about 10 years in scope and then ended.

13.What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?

Sluggy Freelance.

14.What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Partial is The Republic by Plato. I need to go back to it.

Complete is Les Miserables by Victor Hugo but it was worth every page.

15. What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?

As You Like It

16. Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
French, primarily because I like Voltaire and Descarte. Russian philosophers haven't really advanced the cause of Democracy.

17. Roth or Updike?

Neither, alas I had not read or become familiar with either.

18.David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?

Ditto.

19. Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespear by a mile.

20. Austen or Eliot?

T.S. Eliot

21.What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?

Non christian scripture.

22.What is your favorite novel?

Ender's Game.

23. Play?

43 Plays for 43 Presidents

24. Poem?

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came

25.Essay?

Discourse on the Method and Principles of Philosophy by Descarte

26.Work of nonfiction?

As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

27.Who is your favorite writer?

Jim Butcher

28.Who is the most overrated writer alive today?

Glenn Beck

29.What is your desert island book?

The Boy Scout Handbook

30.And... what are you reading right now?

Dragon Rider
Plain Honest Men
Ride a Dread Legion
The Tibetan Book of the Dead