because i was tagged by shoobs..
1. One book you have read more than once
can i name more than one? due to my studies in lit, i am forced to re-read most of my texts in order to gain more (or different) insight or just to jog my memory. Thomas Hardy's 'Jude the Obscure', Charles Dickens's 'Great Expectations', Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility', Oscar Wilde's 'A Picture of Dorian Gray', Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre' and..i think that's it?
2. One book you would want on a desert island
i'd want too many due to sheer boredom. include maybe a fat-assed book of sudoku.
3. One book that made you laugh
can't really think of anything. but Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's personal letters to Stalin on the 5 year plans and censorship cracked me up a bit - in a morbid kind of way. oh, Thomas really laughed at Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22'. oh! the jeeves series by P.G. Wodehouse is hilarious!
4. One book that made you cry
the first time a book ever made me cry was Adeline Yen Mah's 'Chinese Cinderella'. i think i was 13. Mitch Albom's 'Tuesdays with Morrie' is also a tear-jerker.
5. One book you wish you had written
The Trial by Franz Kafka. pure genius.
6. One book you wish had never been written
it'd be a utopia to say any religious text.
7. One book you are currently reading
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. excellent thus far, albeit the monster's sufferings. sublime descriptions of Switzerland make me want to visit it again! oh, i'm also doing lots of research on the Enlightenment - thought-provoking and pains me how anal and ignorant the every day man on the street can be.
8. One book you have been meaning to read
oh, too many. Leo Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' for one..and 'Anna Karenina'. Mikhail Bulgakov's 'Master and Margarita', George Eliot's 'Middlemarch', complete 'l'étranger' by Albert Camus and some philosophical works.
9. One book that changed your life
all books mould my perspective on life. one that really sticks with me is Kafka's 'The Trial'. Cheesy enough, i think l'éncyclopedie, written and compiled during the 18th c, also changed my perspective on knowledge and our access to it. in my opinion, one of the most important books ever.
10. Now tag five people:
oh, anyone and everyone. it'd be interesting if you could tag the current book you're reading or one that changed your life - i'm all ears - or eyes?
1. One book you have read more than once
can i name more than one? due to my studies in lit, i am forced to re-read most of my texts in order to gain more (or different) insight or just to jog my memory. Thomas Hardy's 'Jude the Obscure', Charles Dickens's 'Great Expectations', Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility', Oscar Wilde's 'A Picture of Dorian Gray', Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre' and..i think that's it?
2. One book you would want on a desert island
i'd want too many due to sheer boredom. include maybe a fat-assed book of sudoku.
3. One book that made you laugh
can't really think of anything. but Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's personal letters to Stalin on the 5 year plans and censorship cracked me up a bit - in a morbid kind of way. oh, Thomas really laughed at Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22'. oh! the jeeves series by P.G. Wodehouse is hilarious!
4. One book that made you cry
the first time a book ever made me cry was Adeline Yen Mah's 'Chinese Cinderella'. i think i was 13. Mitch Albom's 'Tuesdays with Morrie' is also a tear-jerker.
5. One book you wish you had written
The Trial by Franz Kafka. pure genius.
6. One book you wish had never been written
it'd be a utopia to say any religious text.
7. One book you are currently reading
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. excellent thus far, albeit the monster's sufferings. sublime descriptions of Switzerland make me want to visit it again! oh, i'm also doing lots of research on the Enlightenment - thought-provoking and pains me how anal and ignorant the every day man on the street can be.
8. One book you have been meaning to read
oh, too many. Leo Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' for one..and 'Anna Karenina'. Mikhail Bulgakov's 'Master and Margarita', George Eliot's 'Middlemarch', complete 'l'étranger' by Albert Camus and some philosophical works.
9. One book that changed your life
all books mould my perspective on life. one that really sticks with me is Kafka's 'The Trial'. Cheesy enough, i think l'éncyclopedie, written and compiled during the 18th c, also changed my perspective on knowledge and our access to it. in my opinion, one of the most important books ever.
10. Now tag five people:
oh, anyone and everyone. it'd be interesting if you could tag the current book you're reading or one that changed your life - i'm all ears - or eyes?
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