Book Meme
Tagged by Dr. Brazen. Ok, here we go..
1. One book that changed your life?
Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu. Special mention goes to The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan.
2. One book you have read more than once?
I'll read pretty much anything multiple times. I read my copy of Jane Eyre to shreds, but my Dad's copy of Grow It! met the same fate.
3. One book you would want on a desert island?
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. It's the literary equivalent of chocolate chip cookies in bed on a rainy day.
4. One book that made you laugh?
The Straight Dope, by Cecil Adams. Also, anything by the Harvard Lampoon.
5. One book that made you cry?
Recently, Jimmy Corrigan, or The Smartest Kid on Earth, by F.C. Ware. When they told me it was a graphic novel more depressing than Maus I really should have listened.
6. One book you wish had been written?
An idiot's guide to Nietzche, Keirkegaard and Schopenhauer. I'm sure they exist separately, but I'm talking about, like, 100 pages that I can read in the bathroom so as not to look like a total moron at parties.
7. One book you wish had never been written?
The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Fucking Brown. Also, quite possibly the entire Harry Potter series. Now hear me out - I don't object to fun, escapist reading. I've read to many fantasy paperbacks to say that. What I object to is people who never read anything, and get all self-congratulatory because they actually cracked a book, albeit a book that offers no intellectual challenge AT ALL. As for Harry Potter, I read them too, but I don't understand how you can stay engaged if all you read are books for 12-year-olds. Special mention goes to the entire chick-lit genre.
8. One book you are currently reading?
The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan. Also The Science of Good and Evil, by Michael Shermer.
9. One book you have been meaning to read?
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy. I swear to God, I have been trying to finish this book for decades, and I just can't get into it. I am a failure at fiction.
10. Now tag five people.
Screw you, meme.
1. One book that changed your life?
Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu. Special mention goes to The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan.
2. One book you have read more than once?
I'll read pretty much anything multiple times. I read my copy of Jane Eyre to shreds, but my Dad's copy of Grow It! met the same fate.
3. One book you would want on a desert island?
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. It's the literary equivalent of chocolate chip cookies in bed on a rainy day.
4. One book that made you laugh?
The Straight Dope, by Cecil Adams. Also, anything by the Harvard Lampoon.
5. One book that made you cry?
Recently, Jimmy Corrigan, or The Smartest Kid on Earth, by F.C. Ware. When they told me it was a graphic novel more depressing than Maus I really should have listened.
6. One book you wish had been written?
An idiot's guide to Nietzche, Keirkegaard and Schopenhauer. I'm sure they exist separately, but I'm talking about, like, 100 pages that I can read in the bathroom so as not to look like a total moron at parties.
7. One book you wish had never been written?
The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Fucking Brown. Also, quite possibly the entire Harry Potter series. Now hear me out - I don't object to fun, escapist reading. I've read to many fantasy paperbacks to say that. What I object to is people who never read anything, and get all self-congratulatory because they actually cracked a book, albeit a book that offers no intellectual challenge AT ALL. As for Harry Potter, I read them too, but I don't understand how you can stay engaged if all you read are books for 12-year-olds. Special mention goes to the entire chick-lit genre.
8. One book you are currently reading?
The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan. Also The Science of Good and Evil, by Michael Shermer.
9. One book you have been meaning to read?
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy. I swear to God, I have been trying to finish this book for decades, and I just can't get into it. I am a failure at fiction.
10. Now tag five people.
Screw you, meme.
posted by La Blonde Parisienne at 1:55 AM
2 Comments:
I would ave wished HP hadn't have been written had it not have been for the films.
Lao Tzu - I would have picked that for my life changing thing but I was in a pedantic sort of mood. But yeah, so glad someone made me read that.
You are way more cooler than me.
I read Da Vinci and all the HP books. I agree, escapism at their best. I also know that the HP series got me back into reading - I had forgotten that I could find joy in such an activity.
Oh, and the Lao Tzu - made me feel like a complete loser :(
Good for you not to tag!
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