So belledame222 over at Fetch Me My Axe tagged me on this questionnaire thing. And because I am a little helpless sheep-man...1. One book that changed your life? The Waves by Virginia Woolf. I was like, "You can just write whatever and however you want? And make people read it? And they will? Really? Whoa..."
2. One book you have read more than once? Hmmm...well, The Waves. Uh...this is going to get tiresome after awhile. So some others I've read multiple times are 1984 by George Orwell and the entire run of Shade, The Changing Man by Peter Milligan, Chris Bachalo, et al.
3. One book you would want on a desert island? Uhhh...The Waves. It covers the entire lifespan of six very different people, so there's always something new to pick up on every time you read it. I would never get bored! But again, to avoid being tiresome: The U.S. Army Survival Handbook. I can't help it; sometimes I'm just plain ol' practical.
4. One book that made you laugh? Aha! The Waves did not make me laugh! YES! The Peter Milligan run on X-Force/X-Statix, particularly the are-they-or-aren't-they gay boy arc for Phat and Vivisector. And anything involving Dead Girl. For those Snobby McSnobs who don't consider comics to be books, The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum made me laugh, too.5. One book that made you cry? I tend not to cry at fiction (whereas in real life, I cry all the time). But I was sufficiently devastated at the end of The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst. But more in a WTF way than in a cry way, I think. Also, The Dying Gaul by Craig Lucas (which I read before I ever saw it).
6. One book you wish had been written? A memoir by Jesus of his time as a young adult studying Buddhism.
7. One book you wish had never had been written? Paul's letters to the Romans, so one man's egomania and prejudice wouldn't have turned a free form, all-inclusive, spiritual philosophy into a bureaucratic, bigoted, my-way-or-the-highway monolith church.
8. One book you are currently reading? Electric Universe by David Bodanis. It's my current beach reading.
9. One book you have been meaning to read? The Last Report on The Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich. Her big, interlocking universe was recommended to me by a friend recently (I love big, interlocking universes and in fact write that way myself), and I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
10. Now tag five people: Train Mama, Large Slice of Cake, LittleRabbit, Mendi, and EL - YOU'RE IT!
2 comments:
hahaha. ok, rey. look for my meme next week.
Okay, I have only read one of these books and it WASN'T X-force/X-static - though you have started a desire in me to read Viginia Woolf who I have previously found to be kinda depressing (As in, "this is way too much like my life" depressing) - but if you are going to take it to a desert island I should give it a read...
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