You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
I think this question might be "which book do you want to burn?" so I'll say the "Left Behind" series. I'd burn them.
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Note to my friend, Shisa: get out of the way, Darcy is mine. He is so self-possessed. But other men have their attractions. When I was young, I fell for the romantic and tragic Jude, the Obscure (Hardy). I hated those women in Jude's life--Arabella and Sue.
The last book you bought is:
Well, I don't really buy books; I check them out. But I did find (about three weeks ago, in a used-book sale put on by the Friends of the Library) a LARGE PRINT Martha Grimes novel that I hadn't read yet, This Train Departing. Reading that was like being on vacation at the beach.
The last book you read:
This past weekend my brother-in-law handed me Harold Bloom's Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages and asked me to read The Bottle Imp by R.L. Stevenson. Short story--25pages--and it made for delightful dinner conversation later.
What are you currently reading?
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini so I can talk to everyone else who is reading it. I'm on Chapter Seven and I recommend it already.
Five books you would take to a deserted island:
1. A good rhyming dictionary
2. The Oxford book of English Verse
3. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
4. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
5. Okay, I know this is not really fair but I've always wanted to read the Great Books. The recommended time to alot for reading them all is ten years so I figure I'd have to be stranded on a deserted island to get the time to do it.
Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why? -- I just can't pass the stick at this time. Sorry.
Glad to know I wasn't the only one who had trouble with that first question. I thought I was going nuts! So when I read your post, I googled it, and found a blog entry (http://www.sbpoet.com/2005/03/the_stick.html) that seems to give a plausible answer. I dunno. How many people have read Farenheit 451? Maybe it was required reading at some point, but never where or when I went to school.
BTW, I loved the crack about "I don't buy books".
Fondly,
RT
Posted by: rangerteper | Wednesday, April 13, 2005 at 11:20 PM
Ranger,
Hello! Oh, yes, NOW I remember. So which book would I want to SAVE--Paradise Lost by John Milton.
Carol
Posted by: Carol | Wednesday, April 13, 2005 at 11:52 PM
Yes -- that makes sense...
Now I have to rethink the whole thing.
Right now I am finishing The Shipping News for the second time -- maybe that one?
A Nwe Yorker in Newfoundland:
"..His aroused senses imbued the far scene with enormous importance. The small figures against the vast rock with the sea beyond. All the complex wires of lief were stripped out and he could see the structure of life. Nothing but rock and sea, the tiny figuers of humans and animals against them for a brief time."
Shisa
Posted by: Shisa | Saturday, April 23, 2005 at 03:16 PM
PS
The typos are mine...
Posted by: Shisa | Sunday, April 24, 2005 at 05:56 AM
Oh, The Shipping News. Quoyle. Jeez.
He will forever be linked to Kevin Spacey in my mind. I think Annie Proulx is a great writer but I have a thing for Spacey.
Carol
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Posted by: Shipping News | Sunday, April 24, 2005 at 11:06 PM