Book thing

[lady_t_220]

Book meme stolen from a very bored albertina



1. What books are your comfort reading -- the ones you slink back to in times of stress?

Heh, this is bad but it usually ends up being 101 uses for a Boring Church, an odd book that does indeed contain 101 uses for a boring church. I usually retreat to the bath and flick through it randomly. That or its companion, the 101 survivor's guide to the church.

It's distinctly not very religious.

2. What was your favorite book as a child, and why?

When I was very young, I adored both "Why are there more Questions than Answers, Grandad?" and "My Grandmother's Djinn". Then (in a very English way) when I was a little bit older I devoured almost everything Enid Blyton ever wrote.

3. What was your favorite book as an adolescent, and why?

Hmm... Pratchett books i devoured at great pace, Robert Rankin equally so and, REALLY depressing though it is, a book called This Time of Darkness. I forget who it's by but MAN...
It's compelling but really really bleak.

4. What is the most-unread category of books gathering dust on your bookshelf -- the books you've bought but just never got around to reading?

These days, Pratchetts without doubt. I've not been able to get past Theif of Time yet. I just can't seem to get back into his writing any more.

5. What kind of books would you like to say you read, but never do?

I'd like to say that I enjoyd more of the classics, but I can't. I generally only read them under duress because I find them irritatingly ponderous usually.

6. What's the oddest book you ever read?

Hands down, Dance of the Voodoo Handbag by Robert Rankin. It's MOSTLY just about understandable, but at the time I read it most of it went right on *woosh* over my head. There's lots of sarcastic references to Microsoft being pure satanic evil and there's a guy who's slowly feeding his grandmother to a carnivorous, semi-sentient voodoo handbag. It's kinda' gross if you want my honest opinion.
I keep thinking that I should re-read it to see if it makes more sense when you're really paying attention but I've just never got around to it.
(Though the boywonder loves to remind me that he got it first time around)

7. What book were you never able to get through, despite the recommendations of people you respect?

Lord of the Rings... hell I barely even made it through the Hobbit without wanting to scratch my own eyes out.

8. What's the book it took you a couple of tries to get into, but was as good as promised once you finally made it?

Picture of Dorian Grey, I think. I found it rather verbose all the while that I was reading it, but after I'd finished I discovered I'd actually rather enjoyed it.
It also affected the style in which I wrote more than any other book I've ever read.

9. What's your favorite short story . . . or do you even have one?

I liked quite a few of the shorts in Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors though offhand I can't name a favourite one.

10. The desert island. Three books (and collected works don't count; if you want *Lord of the Rings* it'll cost you all three slots). Go:

Yikes... OK, I'd normally say Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. I'll throw in Walk This Way, the autobiography of Aerosmith, because it's really big and convoluted and would take a long time to get through, and riiiiight now I'll say Order of the Phoenix, cause I luff Sirius Black and he's in it lots. *snickers*

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[albertina.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yeah, I was bored. That made me laugh.