I’m “borrowing” (appropriating?) this meme from Susan at Well-Mannered Frivolity who (according to her) got it from “Ryan at Wordsmithonia, who borrowed it from Alexia's Books and Such..., who borrowed it from Brooke Reviews, and well, you get the idea.”
Da Rules:
No two answers can be the same book
All books must be fiction
Book Next to Your Bed Right Now:
Well, the book next to my bed as of this moment is Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy by Melissa Milgrom (since that is the one I am currently reading), but that doesn’t count since it is nonfiction. So, the nearest fiction book to my bed is a Hellboy graphic novel by Mike Mignola that my four-year-old son was looking at (he loves the Hellboy movies and cartoons)
Favorite Series:
The Dragonlance Series created by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Favorite Book:
The Shining by Stephen King
The Book You Would Have With You if You Were Stranded on a Desert Island:
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Da Rules:
No two answers can be the same book
All books must be fiction
Book Next to Your Bed Right Now:
Well, the book next to my bed as of this moment is Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy by Melissa Milgrom (since that is the one I am currently reading), but that doesn’t count since it is nonfiction. So, the nearest fiction book to my bed is a Hellboy graphic novel by Mike Mignola that my four-year-old son was looking at (he loves the Hellboy movies and cartoons)
Favorite Series:
The Dragonlance Series created by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Favorite Book:
The Shining by Stephen King
The Book You Would Have With You if You Were Stranded on a Desert Island:
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
(Bytheby, if you want to see something really cool in relation to Melville’s magnum opus, check out Matt Kish’s blog One Drawing for Every Page of Moby-Dick. It is simply breath-taking. As of yesterday (March 29th) he was on page 208).
Book/Series You Would Take With You on a Long Flight:
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Worst Book You Were Made to Read in School:
I just mentioned this to my wife last night, unrelated to this meme: A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Book That Everyone Should Be Made to Read in School:
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Book That Everyone Should Be Made to Read, Period:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Favorite Character:
If I can’t pick Jack Torrance from The Shining then it has to be Abraham Van Helsing from Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Best Villain:
Ooh, a four-way tie between Lord Voldemort, Dr. Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter, Pennywise the Clown, and Norman Bates
Favorite Concept Series:
I have to agree with Susan here when she said in her answer to this one that I’m not sure what is meant by a “concept series” … but I’m gonna go with Quirk Book’s Classic mash-ups series: Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters, Pride & Prejudice & Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls and the forthcoming Android Karenina
Favorite Invented World:
Mars in Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles
Most Beautifully-Written Book:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Funniest Book:
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Wow … that was harder than it looked, especially since I could easily put The Shining, Fahrenheit 451 and Moby-Dick into multiple categories.
Book/Series You Would Take With You on a Long Flight:
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Worst Book You Were Made to Read in School:
I just mentioned this to my wife last night, unrelated to this meme: A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Book That Everyone Should Be Made to Read in School:
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Book That Everyone Should Be Made to Read, Period:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Favorite Character:
If I can’t pick Jack Torrance from The Shining then it has to be Abraham Van Helsing from Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Best Villain:
Ooh, a four-way tie between Lord Voldemort, Dr. Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter, Pennywise the Clown, and Norman Bates
Favorite Concept Series:
I have to agree with Susan here when she said in her answer to this one that I’m not sure what is meant by a “concept series” … but I’m gonna go with Quirk Book’s Classic mash-ups series: Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters, Pride & Prejudice & Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls and the forthcoming Android Karenina
Favorite Invented World:
Mars in Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles
Most Beautifully-Written Book:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Funniest Book:
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Wow … that was harder than it looked, especially since I could easily put The Shining, Fahrenheit 451 and Moby-Dick into multiple categories.
3 comments:
It really is a lot harder than it looks! Choosing the bests of the best gets more difficult the more you read each year. Excellent answers.
Btw, I MUST look up your Still Life book the next time I'm at the library! That looks extremely interesting.
It really is hard, isn't it. And, for the record, I'm hoping to have a review of Still Life up by the end of the day so that I can count it for March. I'm 80-some-odd pages from the end, so hopefully...
Let the pilfering begin!
http://situationswhereyoumayneedit.blogspot.com/2010/03/more-than-slightly-pilfered-book-meme.html
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