You're OUT OF TIME book tag

[Amanda]

Hello fellow Swords and Lasers!

I've come up with some book-related questions. They focus on running out of time to read or being out of time and space, thereby broadening your reading limitations. I hope you have fun answering!

1. You are going to die soon - very soon - which 5 books from your to-read list you will read?

2. The Earth is about to be destroyed along with every written work in humanity. You can lock but one author's works safely away in a vacuum-sealed chamber. Which author's works do you save?

3. You will die tomorrow; which book will you read today?

4. You are going on an arduous adventure and must give away most of your possessions. You have enough room to pack three of your books - you may never see your others books again, though you may replace them after your adventure completes. Which three books do you bring?

5. Audiobooks are going out of fashion. You are to narrate the last recorded audiobook. Which book would you most like to narrate?

6. You can time travel backward or forward in time to attend one book release. Which release do you attend?

7. À la Agatha Christie in the fourth season of Doctor Who, which author(s) do you think people will never stop reading provided humanity continues indefinitely?

8. Which book do you wish you could reread for the first time?

9. Is there any book you wish you could unread?

For my answers, here is the link to my response video! (http://youtu.be/HZ6fBgFs2ZI)

[Trike]

Well that's a grim list.

[Amanda]

Trike wrote: "Well that's a grim list." Yes, the first half is a bit morbid, but it helped me get my reading priorities straight!

[Tassie Dave, S&L Historian]

1. Nothing on my tbr list is that important. I'd choose 5 favourites to re-read.

2. As much as I would like to choose my favourite author. I'd save Stephen Hawking's works. So at least we would appear as an advanced race to the Universe.

Thumbs up for saving Watterson. The Universe needs Calvin & Hobbs :-)

3. Winnie the Pooh (I'd read it to the 7 month old girl & 3 yo boy in my life.)

4. Lord of the Rings, Cosmos (Carl Sagan) & Ray Bradbury Collection

5. The Cat in the Hat (The abridged version)

6. The Gutenberg Bible (I just would like to see if such a technologically significant moment in book mass production was realised and appreciated at the time)

7. Mark Twain

8. Lord of the Rings

9. No, you learn from your mistakes.

[Amanda]

Tassie Dave wrote: "1. Nothing on my tbr list is that important. I'd choose 5 favourites to re-read.

2. As much as I would like to choose my favourite author. I'd save Stephen Hawking's works. So at least we would ap..."

I loved you answers to question 1 and 3! Thanks for participating!

[Dara]

1. I'd probably re-read Harry Potter instead.

2. Steven Erikson although Hawking is a good answer too.

3. I'd finish what I'm reading now which is The Mad Ship.

4. The Lord of the Rings, The Martian, The Way of Kings.

5. I don't do audiobooks and I wouldn't want to record one.

6. Uhh, I don't know on this one. Maybe Lord of the Rings.

7. Tassie Dave's answer of Twain is good. I think Dickens is another.

8. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay.

9. Nope.

[Ruth (tilltab) Ashworth]

1. You are going to die soon - very soon - which 5 books from your to-read list you will read?

In a panic to make sure I made the correct choice, I would spend all the reading time I had left pointlessly browsing the internet, and die cursing my procrastination.

2. The Earth is about to be destroyed along with every written work in humanity. You can lock but one author's works safely away in a vacuum-sealed chamber. Which author's works do you save?

I don't know. I don't often aim to read books by the same authors. Maybe Iain (M) Banks?

3. You will die tomorrow; which book will you read today?

Much as I love books, I would want to spend the day saying goodbye to my friends and loved ones. Priorities and all. But if I had a spare moment maybe I'd reread Moonlight Shadow by Yoshimoto Banana, because it is a short novella that made me cry but is very sweet and uplifting and hopeful, and those would be nice emotions to carry with me.

4. You are going on an arduous adventure and must give away most of your possessions. You have enough room to pack three of your books - you may never see your others books again, though you may replace them after your adventure completes. Which three books do you bring?

This is the exact reason I bought a kindle. No need to choose. All my books in one. :) I guess the other two spaces would be taken by books that would provide information about whatever survival type things I might need on this arduous journey.

5. Audiobooks are going out of fashion. You are to narrate the last recorded audiobook. Which book would you most like to narrate?

I think my voice would just ruin the audiobook - I'll leave it to the professionals.

6. You can time travel backward or forward in time to attend one book release. Which release do you attend?

Book release? Is that a thing? What, like a party or something? I don't know anything about such things, so I couldn't possibly say.

7. À la Agatha Christie in the fourth season of Doctor Who, which author(s) do you think people will never stop reading provided humanity continues indefinitely?

Jane Austin is the first name that springs to mind.

8. Which book do you wish you could reread for the first time?

I'd like to reread Sabriel without the spoiler I got from my mother after I'd just started reading it. I'd also like to read the Gunslinger series, not really a re-read, but my mum (again!) gave me a massive spoiler to the series after I read the first book, and I couldn't continue. I kind of feel like maybe I could put the spoiler out of my mind now and read the series, but it's been so long that I could do to reread the first book again. Trouble is, while I was curious about where it was going, I didn't love the first book enough to want to read through it all over again, so I think that series is lost to me. Wow, long answer, but there you go. Bloody spoilers!

9. Is there any book you wish you could unread?

I guess if I could get the time I wasted reading books I got nothing out of, that would be cool. Like, if I spend 16 hours reading something I hated, and I could pause the day, right now, for 16 hours, and do something more productive with the time, that'd be worth sacrificing a few rubbish books for. But if the time is lost regardless, I may as well remember what it was wasted on.

[Dharmakirti]

1.) Against the Day
Little Big
Doctor Faustus
Anathem
Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines and Its Verse Summary

2.) William Shakespeare

3.) The Tibetan Book of the Dead

4.) The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way
House of Leaves
Foucault's Pendulum

5.) Disciple of the Dog

6.) I would travel to a distant post-singularity future where they just unearthed a collection of texts that post humans have heard rumors of but never before experienced - the King James version of the Bible (all other versions have been lost to time). I would love to see what our post human descendants would make of it.

7.) William Shakespeare

8.) The Darkness That Comes Before

9.) The Celestine Prophecy

[Amanda]

Thanks for participating, everyone! Your answers are so varied and intriguing. It's making me rethink my answers!

[Scott]

1) The Abominable
Locke & Key Slipcase Set
East of Eden
Captive Dreams
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy

2) Mark Twain

3) Probably something by Thích Nhất Hạnh

4) The Essential Ellison
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
The Lord of the Rings

5) It would be a coin toss between The Wreck of The River of Stars and Phases of Gravity

6) Stephen King's 1000th published book ;)

7) Teachers will keep making students read Charles Dickens

8) Per question 7, Great Expectations. This was an assigned read in middle school, and I was so not receptive to it at the time (Lloyd Alexander and Isaac Asimov were more in my wheelhouse then, and I wanted to read what I wanted to read). So Dickens is wrapped up in a general negative vibe for me. I'd like to be able to give it fresh go with a better attitude.

9) Wizard's First Rule. 'nuff said.

[Ty]

1. You are going to die soon - very soon - which 5 books from your to-read list you will read?

MaddAddam, The Lies of Locke Lamora, American Gods, Hyperion, and The Shadow of the Wind. One of those to finish a trilogy, the rest to at least get a taste of authors I've heard so many great things about.

2. The Earth is about to be destroyed along with every written work in humanity. You can lock but one author's works safely away in a vacuum-sealed chamber. Which author's works do you save?

John Steinbeck, possibly the greatest American writer.

3. You will die tomorrow; which book will you read today?

I would sit down with my niece and nephew and read them Where the Wild Things Are. It was my first favorite book and would be a fitting memory for them to have of me.

4. You are going on an arduous adventure and must give away most of your possessions. You have enough room to pack three of your books - you may never see your others books again, though you may replace them after your adventure completes. Which three books do you bring?

All three of my choices would be books I received as gifts and wouldn't want to lose the copies I have. Treasure Island, Runaway Ralph, and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I've kept them for over 40 years and wouldn't give them up now.

5. Audiobooks are going out of fashion. You are to narrate the last recorded audiobook. Which book would you most like to narrate?

I'm not much of a fan of audiobooks, but my choice would probably be Seveneves.

6. You can time travel backward or forward in time to attend one book release. Which release do you attend?

It would have to be the 7th and final book in the Song of Ice and Fire series.

7. À la Agatha Christie in the fourth season of Doctor Who, which author(s) do you think people will never stop reading provided humanity continues indefinitely?

For me this is a toss-up between William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.

8. Which book do you wish you could reread for the first time?

So many great options here, but I'd have to go with The Lord of the Rings. My mind was blown by the epic scale of Middle Earth. I wanted desperately to find a way to get there.

9. Is there any book you wish you could unread?

I rarely regret books I've read because I think you can learn things even from bad books. Having said that, if I could erase Twilight Eyes from my memory, I would. I've had people tell me Dean Koontz has written good books since then, but I can't bring myself to pick up another of his.

[Amanda]

I like how Will S. and Charlie D. are getting shoutouts from us! I, too, have been exposed to them time and time again, unwillingly for Dickens and happily for Shakespeare.

[John (Taloni)]

I read Tale of Two Cities and liked it okay. I'd read more Dickens, but am not running out to do it.

[Robobobo]

1. You are going to die soon - very soon - which 5 books from your to-read list you will read?

The Road - I'm dying so I'm probably already depressed anyway.
The Graveyard Book - Somehow I find reading Neil Gaiman very comforting and I hope it would soothe me a little.
The Rhesus Chart - I just love the Laundry series.
Xeelee - Looking millions of years into the future would put my life into perspective.
A Game of Thrones


2. The Earth is about to be destroyed along with every written work in humanity. You can lock but one author's works safely away in a vacuum-sealed chamber. Which author's works do you save?

Trying to save some of humanity's knowledge, I would probably try to cheat and choose one of the contributing author's of an encyclopedia.


3. You will die tomorrow; which book will you read today?

I would read the fairy tale of King Wikram. My grandma used to read it to me when I was a kid, It's always been my favorite fairy tale and I read to her when she lay dying. Also, it's short so I would have time to say goodbye to friends and family.


4. You are going on an arduous adventure and must give away most of your possessions. You have enough room to pack three of your books - you may never see your others books again, though you may replace them after your adventure completes. Which three books do you bring?

Gravity's Rainbow - Still so much to discover ...
The Brothers Lionheart - My favorite book as a kid.
A survival guide.


5. Audiobooks are going out of fashion. You are to narrate the last recorded audiobook. Which book would you most like to narrate?


6. You can time travel backward or forward in time to attend one book release. Which release do you attend?

I would travel to 2114 when that novel comes out Margaret Atwood wrote for the future.



7. À la Agatha Christie in the fourth season of Doctor Who, which author(s) do you think people will never stop reading provided humanity continues indefinitely?

Maybe Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.


8. Which book do you wish you could reread for the first time?

The Neverending Story

9. Is there any book you wish you could unread?

No. In the end I would be too curious why I wanted to unread it, I would just read it again.

[Kristina]

I thought this sounded fun.. until I had to start picking titles..

I can't do it!

[Amanda]

Thanks so much for participating everyone! You answers are interesting and insightful.

Kristina wrote: "I thought this sounded fun.. until I had to start picking titles..

I can't do it!" And yes, Kristina, it is so hard to choose!