My book list ...
Stolen from twotrees
1. What is your favorite quotation?
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope." Barbara Kingsolver
2. Which school text did you most enjoy?
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller or Cry, the Beloved Country
3. What is the most difficult book you have ever read?
Tie between The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa and The Physics of Immortality by Frank J. Tipler
4. What is the most erotic book you have ever read?
Anne Rice's erotica written under A.N. Roquelaure, but the opening pages of Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong were the most intense 100.
5. What is your funniest book?
Run with the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams
6. And saddest?
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
7. Name your most underrated book:
cunt by Inga Muscio
8. Who is your favorite character?
Codi in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams
9. With which character do you most identify with?
depends on what I'm currently reading :)
10. With which character would you most like to have an affair?
Jordan, a minor character in Pat Conroy's Beach Music, before he became a monk
11. Who would be your ideal literary dining companions?
Mary Shelley and her gang + Peter
12. Name three desert island choices.
The Bible, the Koran, and the Tao-te Ching
13. What is your favorite poem?
"Domination of Black" by Wallace Stevens OR whichever Pablo Neruda poem ends with "I want to do to you what spring does to the cherry trees."
14. Which book would you make compulsory reading?
Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo
15. What is your all-time favorite book?
William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
1. What is your favorite quotation?
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope." Barbara Kingsolver
2. Which school text did you most enjoy?
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller or Cry, the Beloved Country
3. What is the most difficult book you have ever read?
Tie between The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa and The Physics of Immortality by Frank J. Tipler
4. What is the most erotic book you have ever read?
Anne Rice's erotica written under A.N. Roquelaure, but the opening pages of Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong were the most intense 100.
5. What is your funniest book?
Run with the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams
6. And saddest?
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
7. Name your most underrated book:
cunt by Inga Muscio
8. Who is your favorite character?
Codi in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams
9. With which character do you most identify with?
depends on what I'm currently reading :)
10. With which character would you most like to have an affair?
Jordan, a minor character in Pat Conroy's Beach Music, before he became a monk
11. Who would be your ideal literary dining companions?
Mary Shelley and her gang + Peter
12. Name three desert island choices.
The Bible, the Koran, and the Tao-te Ching
13. What is your favorite poem?
"Domination of Black" by Wallace Stevens OR whichever Pablo Neruda poem ends with "I want to do to you what spring does to the cherry trees."
14. Which book would you make compulsory reading?
Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo
15. What is your all-time favorite book?
William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying