book!meme

before I descend...

From Alcottacre's thread:

1) What author do you own the most books by?
Alexander Kent

2) What book do you own the most copies of?
The Lord of the Rings

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

4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Sharpe

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)?
Good Omens

6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Dunno...

7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Billy Budd

8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Mr Rowl

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

10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
Terry Pratchett

11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Fool by Christoper Moore

12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
The Hobbit

13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
not suitable for underaged audiences...

14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
anything with vampires

15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Empire of the Sun

16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Just the main ones


17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
eww to both

18) Roth or Updike?
neither

19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
never heared of them

20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Chaucer

21) Austen or Eliot?
both make me scream

22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
see 21)

23) What is your favorite novel?
which genre?

24) Play?
not fond of them

25) Poem?
Galgenbruders Lied an Sophie, die Henkersmaid

26) Essay?
On Horsemanship, Xenophon

27) Short story?
no

28) Work of nonfiction?
Wellington’s Dispatches

29) Who is your favorite writer?
Again, which genre?

30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Günter Grass

31) What is your desert island book?
LOTR

32) And... what are you reading right now?
Captain in the 95th Rifles by Johnathan Leach
Micromegas by Voltaire
Die Marquise von O by Heinrich von Kleist