Due to the obscure rain clouds that float above my head (in a purely literal sense here) I must stay inside my little glass box instead of walking around outside. The weather is a tad undecided about what it feels like doing today, and thus, even with the sun showing, rain flows in little spurts. Quite annoying.
Thus, I was drawn to my computer to 1. keep me awake 2. amuse me and 3. pass the time. The latter reason is quite unsettling however, as the theory of relativity keeps popping in my head because I swear I look at the clock every 30 minutes when in reality, only about 10 have passed. This may be my very last day trapped in this box, and therefore, I wish today to go by quickly. This is not happening.
Thus, I stumbled across this questionnaire that I found intriguing. Why? Because I'm a nerd.
You have received this note because someone thinks you are a literary geek. Copy the questions into your own note, answer the questions, and tag any friends who would appreciate the quiz, including the person who sent you this.
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Elliot Perlman or Augusten Burroughs, I think they are tied with 5 each.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Siddhartha, I own two because one was a present.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
yes, actually. I cringed.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Simon from Perlmans's Seven Types of Ambiguity, Robbie from McEwan's Atonement, and Odd from Koontz's Odd Thomas.
4a) What fictional character would you most like to be?
Either Dagny from Atlas Shrugged, Stormy from Odd Thomas (minus the fact that she dies suddenly in the first book), Cecilia from Atonement, or Elizabeth from Pride and Prejudice.
4b) What fictional character do you think most resembles you?
Either Elizabeth or Stormy from 4a, but most likely Stormy. Or perhaps Katherina from The Taming of the Shrew.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Siddhartha
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Most likely Harry Potter. But I honestly can't remember that far back, or if I even read.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
McCarthy's The Road. I had to put it down after 9 pages. The writing was horrendous.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
I've actually been reading a lot of lighter books this year due to the heavy classic literature intake during the semester. So I'd have to say that I really enjoyed, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Odd Series, Atlas Shrugged (which I'm still reading), and Killing Yourself to Live.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
I'd have to go with Atlas Shrugged, The Little Prince, or Siddhartha. So we have one for political, social, and spiritual enlightenment =)
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
Nothing recently has caught my attention as worthy of that in modern times. Everything is autobiographical, but I'm not complaining. And the only thing popular is trashy books. So I don't know. Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves is the most outrageous, ingenious, original book I've read by a modern author. So perhaps him.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves or Perlman's Seven types.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Anything else by Stephenie Meyer or McCarthy.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I had a few dream about Odd Thomas in his adventure, of course, I was his leading lady. And a few sepia-toned dreams involving characters from Austen's novels
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Twilight.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves just because you are continuously switching narrators and literally have to turn the book different ways to read it. But I'd also have to go with Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, The Fairie Queen, The Unfortunate Traveller, and Shakespeare took awhile to get used to.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
If we're going with seen instead of read, I'd either have to say Titus (Titus Andronicus) or Romeo and Juliet (the 1996 version)
17) Do prefer French or Russian?
French, only because I liked Tocqueville.
18) Roth or Updike?
Neither
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Again, neither.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Oh man. Milton was the most fun with Paradise Lost, but I am a bit of a drama nerd, so also Shakespeare, but I like Chaucer's messages. All of the above for sure.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Again, both. They're not really in the same category though? Perhaps I'd stick with my girl Jane.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Anything between the 1700's to the 1850's, minus Jane of course. Also, I despise a lot of modern literature. Or post-modern if you will. Like The Heart of Darkness, worst ever. I get the disillusionment going on, it's just painstaking to read about wars.
23) What is your favorite novel?
Perlman's Seven Types of Ambiguity or Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
24a) Play?
Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, or (yes, a modern play!) David Ives' Sure Thing.
24b) Musical?
I doubt I've ever read a musical. But I fell in love with Sweeney Todd.
25) Poem?
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop, Birches or The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, and Plath's Lady Lazarus.
26) Essay?
I have no idea what it was called, but a woman compared existentialism and Buddhism in an essay I read in my early college years. I fell in love. But I believe I sold the anthology, so I can't look it up ={
27) Short story?
Good Morning, Again by Elliot Perlman. I'm not going to lie, this 8 page short story gave me motivation to write my stories. Best and most emotion I've ever felt with such a short work.
28) Work of non-fiction?
Aristotle's Ethics, or Machiavelli's The Prince. (Do these count as non-fiction?)
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Perlman, Plath, Rand.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephanie Meyer Stephanie Meyer!!! or McCarthy. Or Poe. Seriously, I know he's one of the most respected authors of America, but seriously, he's so repetitive I get annoyed just thinking of his works.
31) What is your desert island book?
Oh man. Perlman's Seven Types, it's long, emotional, I'm in love with the character, and it changes every time I read it. But I would prefer to bring my Sony Reader.
32) And ... what are you reading right now?
When you finish Atlas Shrugged, you have to tell me what you think of it. I LOVED that book, even if the philosophy wasn't up my alley.
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