Stolen from Jams:
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Albert Camus
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Catcher in the Rye
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Nah.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Eloise from Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
7) What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
8) What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
9) If you could force everyone you know to read one book, what would it be?
A Happy Death - Camus
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
Haven’t read his new book yet, but if it were for blogging, Sam Pocker
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Fun Home, a Family Tragicomic could maybe work
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Catcher in the Rye
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I’ve had several apocalyptic dreams where I was a member of the X-men
14) What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?
I thought briefly about reading the Shack. It was a Christmas gift.
15) What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you’ve seen?
The Tempest
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
French
18) Roth or Updike?
Updike
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
I hate Dave Eggers with all of my being
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Milton
21) Austen or Eliot?
Eliot
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Feminist Texts
23) What is your favorite novel?
A Happy Death - Camus
24) Play?
No Exit - Sartre
25) Poem?
I’m sure something by Ginsberg or Doty
26) Essay?
E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction – David Foster Wallace
27) Short story?
Interesting - Lydia Davis
28) Work of nonfiction?
Death by Black Hole – Neil deGrasse Tyson
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Camus
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Dave Eggers, goddamn
31) What is your desert island book?
The Razor’s Edge – W. Somerset Maugham
32) And…what are you reading right now?
At this moment, entirely too much
