BOOKS!

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Everybody's doing that book meme thing. I did it in my head but am lazy. Anyway instead I decided to do some reading lists. Oooh! And you can too! Since I already know the answers to all mine. You could try to make every answer to each question different. That'd be fun.

1. A favorite book!
2. A book that affected you in your YA years.
3. A favorite fantasy novel.
4. A favorite sci fi novel.
5. An awesome book (possibly a favorite) you think not many people around you have heard of/read.
6. A book you own more than one copy of.
7. An author whose every single book you own/will buy.
8. The worst book you've ever read.
9. A book you dislike that lots of other people you know like.
10. The most difficult book you've ever read.
11. Tell me what kind of books your mom reads/read.

12. What have you read so far this year?

13. What are you reading now?

14. What are you reading next? (list! list! You know you want to)



MY ANSWERS
1. A favorite book! Beauty, by Robin McKinley
2. A book that affected you in your YA years. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
3. A favorite fantasy novel. Lions of Al-Rassan, by Guy Gaveril Kay
4. A favorite sci fi novel. Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K LeGuin
5. An awesome book you think not many people around you have heard of/read. They Loved To Laugh, by Kathyrn Worth
6. A book you own more than one copy of. Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
7. An author whose every single book you own/will buy. mistful. Trufax, guys. When I fall I fall hard.
8. The worst book you've ever read. Dunno, but Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is amazing, people.
9. A book you dislike that lots of other people you know like. The DaVinci Code, by Dan Brown
10. The most difficult book you've ever read. Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
11. Tell me what kind of books your mom reads/read. Bodice rippers! She likes those ones called things like, Devil's Bride and The Count's Daughter. There should be a book with a woman scantily clad and fainting into the arms of the Count on front, and inside he should say things like "ONE heaving bosom, AH AH AH", "THREE confines of his pants, AH AH AH", "TWO crystal gazes AHAHAH".

12. What have you read so far this year? OOOH.
italicized means unfinished!

Against The Day, Thomas Pynchon (1)
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman (2)
The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman (3)
The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman (4)
Dog's Body, Diana Wynne Jones (5)
Fire and Hemlock, Diana Wynne Jones (6)
White As Snow, Tanith Lee (7)
Hero With a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell (8)
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer (9)
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell (10)
Writer's Journey, Christopher Vogler (11)
Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku (12)
Warrior's Apprentice, Lois McMaster Bujold (13)
New Moon, Stephenie Meyer (14)
The Drowned Maiden's Hair, Laura Amy Schiltz (15)
Spin, Robert Charles Wilson (16)
Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham (17)
American Gods, Neil Gaiman (18)
Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer (19)
Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer (20)

13. What are you reading now? Shadow Of the Torturer, Gene Wolf (21)

14. What are you reading next?

Claw of the Conciliator, Gene Wolfe (22)
The Vor Game, Lois McMaster Bujold (23)
The Summing Up, Somerset Maugham (24)
Ceteganda, Lois McMaster Bujold (25)
Days of Disco (26)
Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones (27)
Ysabel, Guy Gaveril Kay (28)
Moby Dick, Hermann Melville (29)
Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog, Ysabeau S. Wilce (30)
A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King (31)
Georgette Heyer
Dorothy L. Sayers
Hexwood, Diana Wynne Jones (pending my_daroga's opinion) (27)
The Corrections, Johnathan Franzen (28)
Locksley, Nicholas Chase (29)
Mystery At The Opera House (30)
The Worthing Chronicle, Orson Scott Card (31)
Night Magic, Charlotte Vale Allen (32)
Empire of the Stars, Arthur I Miller (34)
The Great War for Civilization, Robert Fisk (35)
Godel, Escher, Bach, Douglas R Hofstader (36)
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrill, Susanna Clark (37)
Anna Karenina, Tolstoy (40)
Horation Hornblower, C.S. Forester (41, 42, 43)
The Hours, Michael Cunningham (44)
Dune: House Atreides, Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson (45)
She, H. Rider Haggard (46)
Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens (47)
Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (48)
Brave New World, Huxley (49)
Like Water For Chocolate (in Spanish!), Laura Esquivel (50)

Comments

[chrisleeoctaves.livejournal.com]

1. A favorite book!
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenberger; Velocity by Kristin McCloy

2. A book that affected you in your YA years.
- That Was Then This is Now by S.E. Hinton. Loved that book. LOVED.

3. A favorite fantasy novel.
-don't read fantasy

4. A favorite sci fi novel.
-don't read sci fi

5. An awesome book (possibly a favorite) you think not many people around you have heard of/read.
-I am currently reccing Promise Not To Tell by Jennifer McMahon. It's terrific.

6. A book you own more than one copy of.
- I own more than one copy of Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

7. An author whose every single book you own/will buy.
- Carolyn Slaughter. I have most of them now, but much of her work is out of print, so it's hard to find. I would imagine I'll own everything by Ian McEwan, too because I admire the hell out of him.

8. The worst book you've ever read.
- New Moon by Stephenie Meyer. I just finished it and it was complete and utter shite. (This might not be the worst book I've ever read, but it's the most recent.)

9. A book you dislike that lots of other people you know like.
- see above.

10. The most difficult book you've ever read.
- I found A.S. Byatt's Possession really difficult but I loved it. And when I say difficult I mean...over my head, but not impossible. I really struggled with Rushdie's novel Fury. And hated it in the end.

11. Tell me what kind of books your mom reads/read.
- My mom always read really racy historical fiction by people like Rosemary Rogers and Jennifer Blake. Later in life she read mysteries.

12. What have you read so far this year?
- Here are the books I've read this year and my thoughts about them!

13. What are you reading now?
- Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay

14. What are you reading next? (list! list! You know you want to)
I am going to read Eclipse, but only because of a work-related event. As for the other books on my list...there are 150 titles on my to-read shelf...i.e. books I physically own, waiting to be read...you don't really want me to list them all do you? You can see them on my Chapters Indigo bookshelf

[tkp.livejournal.com]

You were in Fredricton; I was camping! It was fun. I still want to go to school where you are.

I know you've heard it before, but some sci fi and fantasy is really different than what you might've been led to expect. E.g. Buffy. It's not really about the supernatural or whatever, it's about the people.

I think I have more than one copy of AoGG, too.

I'm reading New Moon right now. It's morbid fascination at work. I hated Twilight--like you said, maybe not the worst, but close to it, but I feel compelled to read New Moon because it's like watching a train wreck. A train wreck other people watching don't realize is a TRAIN CRASHING, and people are screaming on board.

I found Possession difficult too, but I loved it. I love a lot of things that are hard to read. Gravity's Rainbow is one of my favorite books, but I wondered almost all the way through it what the hell was going on.

I need to catch up on your comm. I'm trying to branch out. I've realized lately that for a long time I've been trying to read the "classics" and getting really bogged down with them.