Concerning books
1) What author do you own the most books by?
C.S. Lewis or Robert Heinlein. I'm really not sure, and I'm too lazy to count..
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
2 copies of George MacDonald's Lilith (don't ask), 2 copies of the Bible - KJV and RSV. I have owned multiple copies of The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, Jane Eyre, and Stranger in a Strange Land.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Not really. Sometimes it's not worth the bother.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Mr. Rochester, Caspian X, Jubal Harshaw, Lestat de Lioncourt, Mal Reynolds, Starbuck, Capt. Jean-Luc Picard. (It said fictional, not literary.)
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)?
Probably a toss-up between SiaSL, Chronicles of Narnia, Peter Pan, and American Gods.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
The Secret Garden
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
...student papers don't count as books, right?
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, by Audre Lorde
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Ummm....I'd never use force to get someone to read....
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
I don't read enough modern literature to know.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
In an ideal world? American-fucking-Gods
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Heart of Darkness. Oh wait....
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
Funny enough, I don't dream about writers or fictional characters. I don't think.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Anything by Anne Rice.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Moon is a Harsh Mistress took me three weeks, but I've never completed The Golden Bough.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've read?
Probably Titus Andronicus *hiss*
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
The French, generally - Rostand, Chretien, Marie de France, etc. But, also, how about the Germans? Hesse, Rilke, Hildegard of Bingen...
18) Roth or Updike?
Sorry, this sector has yet to be written.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Meh.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Chaucer, then Shakespeare.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Eliot - both George and T.S.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I have not read: Dante, Milton, Moby Dick, To Kill a Mockingbird, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, or the middle portion of Heart of Darkness.
23) What is your favorite novel?
Stranger in a Strange Land, Till We Have Faces, Jane Eyre, The Once and Future King and American Gods all pretty much tie for first.
24) Play?
Cyrano de Bergerac and Taming of the Shrew
25) Poem?
Ash Wednesday by T.S. Eliot...and Neruda's sonnets.
26) Essay?
Does "A Modest Proposal" count?
27) Short story?
"The Price," by Neil Gaiman
28) Work of nonfiction?
The Discarded Image, by Lewis, just about anything by Audre Lorde.
29) Who is your favorite writer?
For medieval lit? Marie de France/Julian of Norwich. For lit-crit? Jocelyn Wogan-Browne. For sci-fi? Heinlein. For fantasy? Tolkein. For general mythopoeia (and comics)? Neil Gaiman. For children's lit? Diana Wynne Jones. For spiritual writings? C.S. Lewis and Robert Graves. For poetry? Sexton, Eliot, Rumi and Neruda.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
*shrugs* I don't spend much time thinking about who's overrated. I think about the works I enjoy (even if that means thinking of them critically).
31) What is your desert island book?
A biiiig compendium of world mythology.
32) And... what are you reading right now?
Just finished: The Book of Lilith by Dr. Robert Brown. Am in the middle of: Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus, and The Spiral Dance, by Starhawk.