stealing from avec_bonheur
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Enid Blyton, I think. I was obsessed with her Famous Five series when I was younger, and I have the greater part of the 21 or whatever number of books in that series...
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Hm, I have three copies of Jane Eyre. Two of Mill on the Floss, Emma, Persuasion and I'm positive I'm forgetting something...
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No, didn't notice.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
...it probably varies depending on what I'm reading at the moment, but since I've not read anything in a bit, Mr. Darcy from Pride & Prejudice is the first I can think of.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Persuasion by Jane Austen, probably. Like five or six times if not more...
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
The Famous Five series and The Malory Towers series. Both by Enid Blyton.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Hm...um...there is some fantasy series called the Ice and Storm or something (I don't even remember the name correctly...[ahem]...). My cousin gave me five books from the series to read, praising the series as if there could be no better books under the sun. I got through a third of the first book of the series. The series may indeed be awesome though, I'm just not into fantasy.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Hm, hard one. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf comes to mind first, so it wins.
9) If you could force everyone to read one book, what would it be?
Um...Pride & Prejudice. Mainly because one of my friends refuses to read it, and I'm shocked. I don't understand how you can read the first few chapters, and not want to go on. Otherwise, I'm not very into forcing people to read stuff.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
Anyone with a great book? I don't know, I'm not all that passionate about who wins the Nobel Prize for Lit.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
I guess, Every Boy's Got One by Meg Cabot. I've always thought it would be a funny movie. And I really wanna re-read it now. =P
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
I don't know. A lot of books are just not suitable film content, and there is an endless list of films to prove that.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Technially, I'm not an adult and thus can easily skip this question since um...its late and my brain cannot think of anything.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
I found Emma by Jane Austen very hard to read when I was 11.
16) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
I haven't read Russian [hide], so I'll go with French.
17) Umberto Eco?
....???
18) Roth or Updike?
...clearly I don't read enough...
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Well at least I'd heard of the authors in question 18...
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
I didn't like Milton, I haven't read Chaucer, Shakespeare is entertaining and was exceedingly clever.
21) Austen or Eliot?
[gasp] I can't choose!
No, okay, I can. Austen. Basically because I've read all her books, and they're all awesome (minus Northanger Abbey, whcih, it pains me to say, just sucks...) and I've only read two of Eliot. Though Mill on the Floss is an AMAZING book.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
So, I started reading For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway on the plane like over a month ago, and didn't even open it once I came back home...
23) What is your favourite novel?
I can't choose one: Persuasion, Pride & Prejudice, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
There are more, but I can't be bothered...
24) Play?
The Glass Menagerie by Tennesse Williams.
25) Short story?
Hm...idk.
26) Work of non-fiction?
I don't read non-fiction. [hides again]
27) Who is your favorite writer?
Jane Austen...'cause I'm so original...
28) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
The Twilight author...though, I guess its more the series than the author...
29) What is your desert island book?
Whoa, Persuasion by Jane Austen? No way! Idk, I just don't get tired of it.
30) And ... what are you reading right now?
Nothing. Unless you want to take into account my Economics and Government & Politics textbooks. Finals are just so entertaining!