false 63 226 161 true 5744156 read 7 true 4110225 currently-reading 58 true 4110224 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/246007-literary-survey Shel made a comment in the fiction files redux group:

You hit my procrastination bone at precisely the right moment -as I was writing out my Thanksgiving plan of attack.


1) What author do you own the most books by?
As a percentage of work, Faulkner. Somehow I ended up with 7, I think.

2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Light in August. Three. I have lots of doubles of French books, though, in French and English. Or, I used to until I gave them all away.

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No. Like my children fighting in the car's back seat, I tune it out.

4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Edward Cull...just kidding. Probably Darcy.

5) Who is your favorite fictional character?
I'm partial to the Blooms in Ulysses.

6) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Little Women or D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths, probably a tie.

7) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
I was really into Nancy Drew.

8) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
I started reading Twilight to my daughter. We both agreed to abandon it. Our eyes were rolling too far back in our heads to read the words on the page.

9) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Light in August.

10) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
I'm not tagging. But I'd say The Dead by James Joyce.

11) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
Oh good grief I don't know.

12) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Can't think of one. Movies ruin it, most of the time.

13) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Infinite Jest.

14) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
There was this one with a vampire and a werewolf... I'm sorry! I already procrastinated with Twilight today.

15) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
DaVinci Code.

16) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
I'm still reading it. Infinite Jest.

17) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare. Hands down.

18) Austen or Eliot?
Austen. Again. No contest.

19) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Russian literature and Faulkner. I kept buying them but haven't really made the effort yet.

20) What is your favorite novel?
I have too many favorites.

21) Play?
I really like Streetcar Named Desire but I'm not super well-read...

22) Short story?
Ha! The Dead! Of course.

23) Work of non-fiction?
I read The Gulag Archipelago - that counts, right? I don't read a ton of NF.

24) Who is your favorite writer?
That's such a loaded question. I can't pick one. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/240044-watching-footage-of-dork-08 Shel made a comment in the fiction files redux group:

Oh God. You mean there's VIDEO? ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/245122-hey-jack-kerouac Shel made a comment in the fiction files redux group:

I was just talking about this album with a friend on Facebook who saw a show of theirs.

In fact, it was hearing "One Fast Move Or I'm Gone" a few weeks ago that tossed me into a full-scale Jack Kerouac reverie.

One of these days I will not be swayed with deep, month-long passions for certain writers, and focus on Infinite Jest.

Then again, maybe that's just who I am and I should embrace it, as he did: "My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them." ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/238021-joan-didion Shel made a comment in the fiction files redux group:

I read The Year of Magical Thinking and cried on practically every page, more from what was not said than what was. ]]> http://apps.facebook.com/good_reads/ check it out » ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/216687-house-of-mirth-sept-2009-group-read Shel made a comment in the fiction files redux group:

I like Selden best, and in a way I think he is a foil for Wharton.

Lily is tragic enough to feel sorry for, but not necessarily like.

I can't believe two people posted to my thread! Now I can write a bunch more. :) ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68747972 History of Beauty (Hardcover) by Umberto Eco
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