[Qingdai]

1. What author do you own the most books by? [/I]
David Foster Wallace

2. What book do you own the most copies of?
The Book of the Subgenius because I keep finding copies for free!

3. Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No.

4. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
I save my love for real people.

5. What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?
The Annotated Alice.

6. What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
That Madeleine L'Engle book, A Wrinkle in Time.
7. What is the worst book you've read in the past year? Malinche by Laura Esquivel.

8.What is the best book you've read in the past year?
World War Z

9.If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
The Dictionary of the Kzars. I'm mean.

10. What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
My Childhood by Maxim Gorky. I don't know why.

11.What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
No clue.

12. Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
As I said, real people maybe characters, not so much.

13.What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Harry Potter
14.What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
The Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, because it was long and became hard to keep track of all the characters.

15. What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
The Taming of the Shrew.

16. Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
French

17. Roth or Updike?
Updike?

18.David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Sedaris

19. Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare.

20. Austen or Eliot?
Austen

21.What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Well, I haven't read any Dickens, but I don't think there is anything I'm embarrassed by.

22.What is your favorite novel?
The Anvil of the World.

23. Play?
The Ruling Class.

24. Poem?
What Happens to a Dream Deferred. By Langston Hughes
25.Essay?
Politics and English Language by George Orwell

26.Work of nonfiction?
Right now, "The Omnivores' Dilemma."

27.Who is your favorite writer?
Just one? Bah.

28. Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Just one? Bah. Pick a modern popular series.


29.What is your desert island book?
Complete works of Mark Twain.


30.And... what are you reading right now?
Not a damn thing, I keep running out of books.