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A Book Survey
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1. One book that changed your life 2. One book you have read more than once 3. One book you would want on a desert island 4. One book that made you laugh 5. One book that made you cry 6. One book you wish had been written 7. One book you wish had never had been written 8. One book you are currently reading 9. One book you have been meaning to read Write as much or a little as you like (but preferably the former). I'll post my answers later. |
1. One book that changed your life
That was Then This is Now 2. One book you have read more than once Catcher in the Rye, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, On the Road, Hamlet(Which I might read next), many I can't remember right now. 3. One book you would want on a desert island The Raw Shark Texts 4. One book that made you laugh The Raw Shark Texts 5. One book that made you cry So many I can't remember 6. One book you wish had been written Hamlet 7. One book you wish had never had been written Anything by Ayn Raynd 8. One book you are currently reading Slaughter House five 9. One book you have been meaning to read Hunger by Knut Hamsun. |
1. Harry Potter series. I'm proud to be a nerdy wizard! Really though, I think Harry Potter was very significant for me because it was the first real book that I wanted to pick up and read. I think it was Harry Potter that really got me into reading.
2. In Cold Blood 3. House of Leaves 4. The Importance of Being Earnest (do plays count?) 5. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 6. ??? Is this supposed to be "a book you wish you had written?" 7. I agree with the Ayn Rand thing 8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (I find myself completely spacing out while reading this, and not caring to go back and figure out what I missed) 9. Dostoevsky. But I don't have the time to really concentrate. 8. |
1. One book that changed your life
Master and Margarita , maybe... not sure. 2. One book you have read more than once Alice in wonderland 3. One book you would want on a desert island Alice in wonderland 4. One book that made you laugh Alice in Wonderland (:p), no, c'mon, I can drop another name: "Zazie in the metro" 5. One book that made you cry Little Prince, back in the days 6. One book you wish had been written Kinda hard to find a subject not already "covered".... 7. One book you wish had never had been written The Da Vinci Code, never read that but all the fuzz about it tired my nerves. 8. One book you are currently reading Chaplin's autobiography 9. One book you have been meaning to read Some Pennac stuff, never read a line. |
1. One book that changed your life
fear and loathing in las vegas 2. One book you have read more than once also fear and loathing 3. One book you would want on a desert island again, fear and loathing or other HST material 4. One book that made you laugh how many times can i possibly repeat myself? 5. One book that made you cry i have never cried because of a book 6. One book you wish had been written ??? 7. One book you wish had never had been written a million little pieces -- that bastard doesn't deserve a dime for making all that shit up 8. One book you are currently reading i haven't read anything in quite awhile 9. One book you have been meaning to read open up and bleed |
1. One book that changed your life
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. 2. One book you have read more than once His Dark Materials Trilogy 3. One book you would want on a desert island Complete collection of Camus 4. One book that made you laugh Ahthing by Wilde 5. One book that made you cry His Dark Materials Triliogy, I wept like a 5 year old grazing his knee 6. One book you wish had been written The Bible. Man, I'd be so loaded from the sales from that. 7. One book you wish had never had been written Not gonna answer that as it's a stupid question 8. One book you are currently reading The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (again) 9. One book you have been meaning to read The Illiad |
1. One book that changed your life
Siddharta by Herrmann Hesse 2. One book you have read more than once 1984 by George Orwell 3. One book you would want on a desert island The Black Book of Communism 4. One book that made you laugh Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 5. One book that made you cry Snow and Blood by Dorota Maslowska 6. One book you wish had been written I can't think of any right now 7. One book you wish had never had been written ?? 8. One book you are currently reading After Dark by Haruki Murakami 9. One book you have been meaning to read The Bible |
1. One book that changed your life
1984 2. One book you have read more than once trainspotting 3. One book you would want on a desert island the divine comedy (i've only read the inferno) 4. One book that made you laugh american psycho 5. One book that made you cry none 6. One book you wish had been written the idiot 7. One book you wish had never had been written the outsiders 8. One book you are currently reading early poems and journals by allen ginsberg 9. One book you have been meaning to read the rest of the divine comedy and kazantzakis' the odyssey |
^ the "rest" of the divine comedy is boring. circling planets & light everywhere--yawn. inferno is where it's at. but yeah skim thought it you'll find out.
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1. One book that changed your life
Picasso by Gertrude Stein 2. One book you have read more than once Funeral Blues by Jean Genet 3. One book you would want on a desert island The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson 4. One book that made you laugh The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp 5. One book that made you cry Pass 6. One book you wish had been written Tonnes. Probably a good study of the New British Poetry post-war including J.H. Prynne, Andrew Crozier and others. I would also like Jackson MacLowe's French Sonnets back in print, and somebody to collect in one volume and put out the Susan Howe chapbooks that are long out of circulation. 7. One book you wish had never had been written None, that is brutal Nazi mentality. Keep all books because all are precious..... man. 8. One book you are currently reading The Book of Images by Rilke 9. One book you have been meaning to read Ways of Seeing by John Berger. |
One book that changed your life
Beyond Good and Evil. 2. One book you have read more than once too many to say-- including the above mentioned-- but picking one out of a hat... Ficciones, by Borges. 3. One book you would want on a desert island Manual of Practical Teleportation 4. One book that made you laugh Candide 5. One book that made you cry I don't remember crying at books (honest), but Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina was quite a fucking depressing shock when I read it. 6. One book you wish had been written Manual of Practical Teleportation 7. One book you wish had never had been written Mein Kampf 8. One book you are currently reading Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko. 9. One book you have been meaning to read Nightwood. I've started it a couple of times and somehow got derailed. |
1. One book that changed your life
Jean-paul sartre's Being and Nothiness 2. One book you have read more than once Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange 3. One book you would want on a desert island A survival guide 4. One book that made you laugh Stephen King I luahg at least once in all his books 5. One book that made you cry The Cay 6. One book you wish had been written I don't quite understand this. 7. One book you wish had never had been written Harrpy Fucking Potter 8. One book you are currently reading Quite a few, I haven't finished a book in a while. 9. One book you have been meaning to read I've wanted to finish Being and Nothing for a couple of years. |
1. One book that changed your life
Hubert Selby Jnr, Last Exit to Brooklyn. 2. One book you have read more than once Maury Terry, The Ultimate Evil. 3. One book you would want on a desert island Tolstoy, Anna Karenin. 4. One book that made you laugh Stanley Booth, The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones. 5. One book that made you cry Tolstoy, Anna Karenin. 6. One book you wish had been written The Harry Potter series (for financial reasons alone) 7. One book you wish had never had been written Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on Las Vegas. 8. One book you are currently reading Dennis Wheatley, The Devil Rides Out. 9. One book you have been meaning to read Michael Moorecock, Dancers at the Edge of Time. |
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Bollocks. Purgatory is miles better than Inferno. Paradiso is unmitigated turd mind. Inferno has all the imagery, but purgatory has all the suffering. |
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1. Finnegans Wake, Joyce. I still can't read in the same way I did before. 2. The Bible. There's no way you can take any of it in first sitting. 3. Hegel's phenomenology of spirit. The only chance I'd ever get to finish it. 4. 100 days of Sodom. It's hilariously bad. 5. The complete Sarah Kane. Sick. 6. Anything by Joyce. 7. Whichever one started the beats, unless it was Miller or Burroughs. 8. Derrida's gift of death. 9. Pound's cantos. God, I'm an unsufferable prick, aren't I? |
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Interesting you would mention that as it was actually on the Michael Moorcock message board that I lifted this survey to begin with! Here are my answers: 1. One book that changed your life Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse 2. One book you have read more than once At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft 3. One book you would want on a desert island The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs since it could be read in more than one way and would hold up well to many rereads consequently. 4. One book that made you laugh Glover Undercover - Introducing the Sensuous Cop by Gary Blumberg 5. One book that made you cry Iron Council by China Mieville 6. One book you wish had been written Another Mathew Swain book by the late Mike McQuay 7. One book you wish had never had been written Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard 8. One book you are currently reading In the Ocean of Night by Gregory Benford 9. One book you have been meaning to read A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge |
1. One book that changed your life- Catch-22
2. One book you have read more than once- Dr. Seuss- Green Eggs and Ham (I'm not one for rereading books, but I'll most likely reread my favorites someday) 3. One book you would want on a desert island- something full of information on how to survive on a desert island 4. One book that made you laugh- Catch-22 5. One book that made you cry- ummm, I don't think I've ever cried while reading a book. Dostoevsky's The Idiot is pretty damn sad though. 6. One book you wish had been written- The Life of a Great Sinner (Dostoevsky died before he could write it) 7. One book you wish had never had been written- The Scarlet Letter 8. One book you are currently reading- Charles Bukowski- Ham on Rye 9. One book you have been meaning to read: Fyodor Dostoevsky- The Posessed |
1. unbearable lightness of being
2. catcher in the rye, player piano, basically every book i've ever read 3. the raw shark texts, jpod, anything by poe 4. the whole gossip girl series (my guilty pleasure) 5. eh, never happened to me 6. anna karenina 7. bible 8. infinite jest 9. girl with curious hair |
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1. One book that changed your life american hardcore, though it mostly confirmed many things in my life instead of changing them. but it still was a big impact. 2. One book you have read more than once a lot, a.h. is the one i've read the most, but about 90% of the books i've read have been done more than once. 3. One book you would want on a desert island on the road, very obvious answer for many but since i would be in a desert island, the idea of getting on the highway to somewhere else, would be appealing and make for good escapism. it's also a great book. 4. One book that made you laugh lester bang's psychotic reactions and carburator dung. 5. One book that made you cry lester bang's psychotic reactions and carburator dung (well, i didn't literally made me cry but i felt sad reading the pieces on peter laughner, sid vicious and new year's eve). 6. One book you wish had been written mostly music and history stuff, documenting stuff to preserve for future generations. 7. One book you wish had never had been written none, all books serve for a purpose and reason. there are people i wish wouldn't have written or even read books in the first place. 8. One book you are currently reading crime and punishment; yeah, that one. 9. One book you have been meaning to read japanrocksampler and anything by kenji siratori. |
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i re-read it during my first year of college and i couldn't really take it all in, it was pretty sad. |
I'll go ahead and give multiple answers since some already have.
1. One book that changed your life The Outsider by Colin Wilson, The Denial of Death By Ernest Becker, Narcissus & Goldmund by Hermann Hesse 2. One book you have read more than once Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing by Soren Kierkegaard, Psyche & Symbol (collected essays) by C.G. Jung, Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art edited by Alfred H. Barr 3. One book you would want on a desert island SAS Survival Handbook by John Wiseman, the New Testament, Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer, Picassos Picassos with photos by David Douglas Duncan, Lord of the Flies by William Golding might be good for a lark on a deserted island haha 4. One book that made you laugh Without Feathers by Woody Allen, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Pat Hackett & Andy Warhol, Billy and the Boingers Bootleg (Bloom County comic book) by Berke Breathed 5. One book that made you cry The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone, The Yellow House by Martin Gayford, the Diary of Anne Frank, The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (especially this one although many of his works have exceedingly sad parts) 6. One book you wish had been written There's no one book specifically devoted to this true war story of a fighter pilot shot down over enemy territory during the fight for Gaudalcanal at the beginning of the conflict in the Pacific in WWII. I saw this program on PBS about it called "Dogfight over Guadalcanal" that was amazing. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case...ght/index.html Also, Dogfights on the History Channel is a good series. 7. One book you wish had never had been written Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, Elements of the Philosophy of Right by Hegel, and I'll agree, anything by Ayn Rand 8. One book you are currently reading none (Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly magazines from this week) 9. One book you have been meaning to read The Death of Socrates by Emily R. Wilson It came out this year and this thread has reminded me to go and buy it. |
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Fight the good fight. 1. One book that changed your life Probably A Clockwork Orange, simply because it made me challenge what I had been taught up until that point. It's not my favorite book, but it was significant. If I were reading it today, I don't know what effect (if any) it would have on me. But it was very much appreciated, at that particular point in time. 2. One book you have read more than once When I was in the 2nd grade, I read Treasure Island eight times. Eventually the librarian just let me keep the book. 3. One book you would want on a desert island I really have no idea. I can't single out any one book. On my bed I keep a few books and movies that I basically sleep next to, because I like to have them near me at all times throughout the night in case I wake up and it's still dark outside...and these books/movies are constantly being switched out for different ones. The only one that I keep there all the time is The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara. But I don't know if that counts, or if that is even my answer. 4. One book that made you laugh A Confederacy of Dunces 5. One book that made you cry Most of the good ones do, to be honest. It it's good, I'm crying. Sadness has very little to do with it. 6. One book you wish had been written A better 7th Harry Potter book. Hahaha. Seriously. 7. One book you wish had never had been written On The Road? I don't know. Something underwhelming. 8. One book you are currently reading Switching among a few different things, but honestly I am working on a project right now involving Hamlet, not for any particular school-related purpose though. But perhaps it will come to that. 9. One book you have been meaning to read I can't really think of anything at the moment. Usually when I need a new book I just go to the bookstore and surprise myself. Also, it was unusually difficult to exclude plays from most of these answers. I almost succeeded. |
1. One book that changed your life--The Choirboys...LAPD Sergeant-turned-author Joseph Wambaugh's breakout novel. Changed James Ellroy's life too. The characters and stories in this book are written on the page in a pretty straightforward style, but they pulse with
disturbing truths and dark humor. If you decide not to read this because you think a story about street cops could only be dull or somehow propagandic...your loss! 2. One book you have read more than once--Sophie's Choice, by William Styron I single this one out just because it's over 500 pages, and it took what seemed like ages for me to even want to start it. Some fantastic paragraphs of hyperbolic writing. 3. One book you would want on a desert island--Two Girls, Fat and Thin I read this book by Mary Gaitskill after coming across an article where Kim Gordon praised it. But that's not why I hold in such high esteem. The Dorothy character was/is me in practically every way. 4. One book that made you laugh--A Confederacy of Dunces Lived up to the hype, what can I say? Masterful absurdity, and a classic that really should be praised MORE. 5. One book that made you cry--The Stalking of Kristen. George Lardner Jr's account of his daughter's relationship with, and murder at the hands of, a brutish thug. It wasn't his writing that made me upset, because Lardner is a journalist and avoided making this overly sentimental. It was his matter-of-fact details, of his daughter's life and death, of the life and death of the boyfriend, of the justice system that virtually aided and abetted him. 6. One book you wish had been written--an above-average Sonic Youth biography. may be on the way though, if David Browne does his job. 7. One book you wish had never had been written--On the Road Overrated. "That isn't writing--it's typing", saith Truman Capote 8. One book you are currently reading--We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates. I've had to start/stop a few times now. I have not read anything by her before. 9. One book you have been meaning to read--The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen. Yeah...it's over there in my bucket o' books. I'll get to it next year. And probably regret not picking it up sooner. |
1. One book that changed your life
Joyce's Ulysses 2. One book you have read more than once Joyce's Ulysses, Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, Toole's Confederacy of Dunces (which I appreciated more in French), a bunch of Ellroy, Paula Fox's Desperate Characters 3. One book you would want on a desert island Ulysses once more; or Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex 4. One book that made you laugh A Confederacy of Dunces, parts of Wilt by Tom Sharpe, Rupert Morgan's Let There Be Lite and the great Miss Agatha Runcible in Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies 5. One book that made you cry Benjamin Constant's Adolphe (not Hitler-related) 6. One book you wish had been written 7. One book you wish had never had been written Albert Cohen's Belle du seigneur 8. One book you are currently reading Re-reading Master and Margarita (they're currently in the nut house and Rimski's fled from two vampires) 9. One book you have been meaning to read |
1. The Princess Bride - I rediscovered the joy in willfully allowing the primacy of fantasy over reality
2. The Little Prince - every time I read it there's something profound uncovered 3. 1623 Shakespeare Folio or The Bible - both excellent reads, both take a bloody long time to get through. In fact, I took both to a desert when I went... 4. Hitch hiker's Guide to the Galaxy/Good Omens 5. Flowers for Algernon - if you haven't read it, you must, it's absolutely devastating 6. Mine - though I appreciate that the employment of the past perfect tense here is a somewhat negative assumption that, despite my continued existence, it will never happen. It might. 7. Any of the unmitigated tripe that passes for 'celebrity autobiography' 8. Prisoner of Love, Jean Genet 9. I can't narrow it down to one as I have been meaning to read the entire corpus of literature. I'm getting there. |
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Yes, 120 days, this is what posting drunk does for one. Sarah Kane is someone I absolutely adore - I don't really keep up with contemporary stuff, for various reasons, but she's one of the few that makes me wonder if there's a subterfuge of brilliance underneath a lot of well-meaning but ultimately inconsequential writing. Margeurite Duras (sp?) does the same. Mr 2600 - I haven't read the Kierkegaard tome you mentioned; I have read Either/ Or, Fear & Trembling, The Concept of Dread, The Sickness Unto Death and had a drunk attempt at Concluding Unscientific Postscipt (which I need to re-read sober). So, uh, I was wondering why you'd put a 'minor' essay over some of his other stuff? I don't mean this in the sense that one must adhere stringently to the canon of Kierkegaard, but in the sense that I haven't read it and would like to know why I should (besides Kierkegaard being entirely perfect, of course). |
I've read those same ones too, Glice. I probably go back to Either/Or, Stages on Life's Way and Philosophical Fragments the most (to further elicit their meanings), but I don't know that I've reread those in their entirety because they are rather lengthy. All the above (as is the case with the majority of his writings) are, as you know, pseudonymous works. With their dialectic of meaning, they were written to prepare the reader for the edifying discourses. All of mine are the Howard & Edna Hong translations, the ones most widely in print.
By contrast, Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: the Good in Truth is a slender volume (that I've reread many times, thus the mention under "a book you've read more than once") containing (as implied in the title) one of Kierkegaard's rather religious (although, as you know, he broke from the Church) edifying discourses. This particular edifying address (as they are also sometimes referred) was his first to be translated and published in English. So whereas it might be "minor," as you described, in size, I do not feel that it is minor in importance. I don't know how much you might enjoy it, (it espouses persistent self-examination) but here it is online: http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=2523 |
Spiffing, many thanks. Will digest at some point this weekend.
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1. One book that changed your life: A Bear Called Paddington (1958) by Michael Bond. Paddington is a perfect role-model for children and, come to think of it, a pretty good one for adults too. The world needs more Paddington, and the good news is that it is going to get some: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main...paddington.xml
2. One book you have read more than once: The one I've re-reaad most recently is probably The Doctrine of the Infallible Book (1924) by Charles Gore DD, in which Mr Gore argues against the idea of Biblical infallibility. Charles Gore was an Anglican bishop who caused considerable controversy with his ideas about Biblical infallibility (he was editor and contributor to the famous Lux Mundi, in which the theory was outlined). I own a lot of his work - he's another of my favourite figures. 3. One book you would want on a desert island: Carlyle's The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell. Actually, no, probably The Poems of Jesus (2 vols, 1965), 'taken from the gospels by Dom Robert Petitpierre', in which the forementioned Petitpierre takes the words of Jesus as recorded in the Bible and presents them as, no surprise, poetry. 4. One book that made you laugh: The Chronicles of Clovis (1911) by Saki. Saki (HH Munro) makes me laugh like no other literary figure, but it was The Chronicles of Clovis that introduced me to his work, so I'll vote that. The Reginald stories are perhaps even funnier though. 5. One book that made you cry: I don't think I've cried as a result of reading a book, but I was very touched by Nicola Barker's exquisite Small Holdings (1995). She is by some way my favourite living author of fiction, and this is a wonderful little novel. 6. One book you wish had been written: A Complete Guide to English Commemorative Medals. I would probably be well advised to write the hefty and very expensive 20-volume work myself, but I'm not sure I could be bothered. I'm especially interested in medals commemorating local (ie Wirral and Birkenhead) events, religious activities and 19th century political reform. I've been asked to give a speech illustrating the history of Birkenhead seen through commemorative medals. We'll see. I'd rather lend my collection to someone else; that way they can do the presentation and I can just take some of the credit. 7. One book you wish had never had been written: John Steinbeck's The Pearl. We had to read it at school. I remember it quite clearly as a travesty of literary justice. I hated it. It occaisionally haunts me still, I have to confess; it is testament to the depth of my love of books that The Pearl didn't compel me to despise the written word. 8. One book you are currently reading: The Apocryphal Gospels, Acts and Revelations (1870, as part of the Ante-Nicene Christian Library, but all written before the Council of Nicea, obviously). I like to read early Christian stuff; it's great to see ideas being formed and stories being reported that didn't eventually become part of the main Christian canon. 9. One book you have been meaning to read: I've bought a lot of books this year, so there are quite a few waiting for my full attention. Both Leyland Buses and Shakespeare and Religion are ones I'm especially keen to get round to. |
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- 2. One book you have read more than once Currently re-reading Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe 3. One book you would want on a desert island a Desert Island survival guide? 4. One book that made you laugh Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 5. One book that made you cry The Unlucky Australians by Frank Hardy 6. One book you wish had been written ? 7. One book you wish had never had been written Licensed Fiction: Star Wars novels, Star Trek novels, all that stuff 8. One book you are currently reading Currently re-reading Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe 9. One book you have been meaning to read Don Quixote |
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The Trial 2. One book you have read more than once 1984 3. One book you would want on a desert island On The Road (see everynewwwww's reason) 4. One book that made you laugh Hitchhikers GUide to the Galaxy 5. One book that made you cry Blankets (it's a graphic novel) 6. One book you wish had been written Kind of a weirdly phrased question... I'd love a book of all my lifes fuck-ups, though. 7. One book you wish had never had been written n/a, I guess. 8. One book you are currently reading Kingdom Come 9. One book you have been meaning to read My dresser has 28 of them, take yr pick. |
1.1 book changed my life- Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
2.1 book read more than once - none. 3.1 book desert island - Woman Of The Dunes - Abe 4.1 book made me laugh - Jim The Giraffe - Daren King 5.1 book mde me cry-At Swim Two Birds-Flann O'Brien 6.1 book wish i'd written- At Swim Two Birds-Flann O'Brien 7.1 book wish never been written-none. 8.1 book currently reading-I am cat - Natsume Soseki 9.1 book meaning to read-Philosophical Investigations-Wittgenstein |
1. I think Hermann Hess has some kind of revelatory effect on many a young person, my 19-20ish year old self included. Steppenwolf was the one that really did it for me, though I've recently tried rereading it 4 years or so later to no avail. I'm not sure why but it doesn't affect me nearly in the same way anymore.
2. I have a habit of reading books in two languages at the same time for to master my foreign language skillz, so A LOT. 3. Nudy magazine. 4. The Ark Sakura (Kobo Abe) be the last I recall. 5. sissy. 6. A really good one. 7. Yukio Mishima... hate hate hate hate. 8. Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (Henry Miller) 9. Against the Day... So long, so daunting, so busy. |
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In the "changed my life," I didn't want to be cliche and put philosophy, but I could have put some Kierkegaard, Neitzsche, etc...
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1. Buddhism For Everyday Living (?) as a high school kid, the ideas totally blew me away 2. The Dark Tower (series) (Stephen King) entertainment purposes only 3. Cheek! (Trevor Watson) if i'm on a desert island, i'm gonna get my blackbelt in jerking off 4. Lamb, the Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (Christopher Moore) chris moore pretty much fucking rules 5. The Divine Invasion (Philip K. Dick) i cried because i realized i will never ever be smart enough to understand anything this fucking guy writes about 6. Something devoted to Flagg in the Stephen King multiverse 7. Chicken Soup for the... 8. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien) i got excited about news of the film happening so i decided to pick it up again 9. Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas (Tom Robbins) i just can't get past the first 5 pages without nodding off |
1. One book that changed your life The Counte of Monte Cristo
2. One book you have read more than once Clive Barker's Everville 3. One book you would want on a desert island the Holy Bible 4. One book that made you laugh Patrick Suskind Purfum 5. One book that made you cry the Agpeya 6. One book you wish had been written Ethiopia: A History by Harold Marcus 7. One book you wish had never had been The God Delusion by Dawkins (because it has ZERO science yet it is written by a scientist, wtf?) 8. One book you are currently reading Clive Barker' Mister B 9. One book you have been meaning to read Blessed Toni Morrison Write as much or a little as you like (but preferably the former). I'll post my answers later. |
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1. One book that changed your life -- The Dagger Affair (Ace Paperback, The Man From UNCLE series, #4, by David McDaniels), because it made me want to write something like it when I read it in 4th grade, and from there I got this silly notion of becoming a writer. 2. One book you have read more than once - Lolita. 3. One book you would want on a desert island - Lolita. 4. One book that made you laugh - Lolita. 5. One book that made you cry - I can't remember a book making me cry. Movies can do that, but not books, for some reason. Perhaps, though, Geronimo Rex by Barry Hannah came close in a couple of parts. 6. One book you wish had been written - On the Road Revisited by Jack Kerouac (a follow up 30 years later to the original in which Kerouac realizes how lame his vision of the American road in the first book was) 7. One book you wish had never had been written - I don't wish this. 8. One book you are currently reading - a couple of things by Bill Bryson 9. One book you have been meaning to read - I have been meaning to re-read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for several months now. It's on my desk. |
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Depends what you consider to be interesting. Reading about the journey through Purgatory and Virgil's disappearance at the entry of heaven (him being a pagan) is quite bleak.. in a way that I enjoy. And the description of God when Dante meets him is pretty good. The Inferno is probably the part most full of fantastic imagery (trapped in a flaming tomb!) and maybe the bits about Purgatory and Paradise pale in comparison, but they're both still very good and I wouldn't reccomend just leaving them out. |
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