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wellinghall) wrote2006-10-30 11:57 am
wellinghall) wrote2006-10-30 11:57 am
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ladyofastolat
1. How many books do you own?
Approximately 1,800.
2. What type of books do they tend to be?
Fiction: Tolkien, fantasy, science fiction, literature, poetry, plays, other.
Non-fiction: Wisden, cookery, military, reference, other.
3. How are they organised?
Tolkien together, Wisdens together, literature together, sf & fantasy together, cookery together, lots of overspill.
4. Where do you like to read?
Lounge, bed, bathroom, train, office ...
5. Have you ever done something because someone in a book did it?
Nothing comes to mind, but I'm sure there are!
6. Whose recommendations do you listen to?
Creatrix's, friends', other - but my tastes are rather idiosyncratic.
7. Do you prefer to read books in one sitting, or to read a little at a time?
I don't have time to read most books through at one sitting.
8. Which forthcoming book are you most looking forward to?
Children of Hurin, the next Miles Vorkosigan novel.
9. Which book has been the greatest disappointment to you?
Stephen Donaldson, maybe.
10. What can make you throw a book down in disgust, even if you'd been
enjoying it up to that point?
I'd rarely through it down, but I won't persist very long if I don't enjoy the writing.
11. What sort of book will you not even contemplate picking up, even if you were stuck in a doctor's waiting room for two hours and it was the only reading material there?
Mills & Boon / Barbara Cartland; but I would rather read even those than read nothing.
12. What was your favourite book at 5? 8? 11? 14?
5: can't remember.
8: Famous Five.
11: Isaac Asimov.
14: Lord of the Rings.
13. Which series did you use at school when learning to read?
Ladybird 1a-12c, wide range readers.
14. Did studying a book at school ruin that book for you?
No.
15. What is your book equivalent of junk food?
Whatever's at hand.
16. What do you read when you're ill?
If I'm alert, I'll plough my way through an author (eg Pratchett or Sayers) non-stop. If I'm not, something really light, where it won't matter if I fall asleep.
17. Which is normally better: the book, or the film?
In my experience the book is almost always better.
18. Which book character would you like to sit next to on a train journey from Penzance to Inverness?
Faramir, Lord Peter Wimsey.
19. What book character would you like to be on your side when alien armies invade from the planet Xarg?
Miles Vorkosigan.
20. Which book character would you like to imprison for life in an unpleasant cell with only a mean-spirited rat for company?
Hubert Lane.
21. Which character would you like to sit next to at school?
Hermione.
22. What was the last book you opened?
Encyclopedia of Fantasy.
23. What book(s) do you have on the go at the moment?
Re-reading The Hunt for Red October in bits, The Mysterious Affait at Styles, the Third Pan Book of Horror Stories. To Come: A Carribean Mystery, Gamesmanship.
24. What's on your "to read" list?
Wayne & Christina's new book.
25. Recommend up to five books or series.
Lord of the Rings
Lord Peter Wimsey
Miles Vorkosigan
Blandings Castle
The Chronicles of Clovis
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Now, that gave me a double-take moment...
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Is that just yours, or yours and Creatrix's combined?
How many do you own if you don't count duplicates?
4. Where do you like to read? ...iving room...bathroom...
Every dropped a book in the bath? (I have, a library book no less - this was when I had a decent bath, however). Notable that you don't call the living room the same thing that C does.
I don't have time to read most books through at one sitting.
Too busy clearing away people's plates/tissues/drinks when they are still using them ;)
wide range readers.
I seem to remember those, vaguely...
14. Did studying a book at school ruin that book for you? No.
Lucky you.
25. Recommend up to five books or series.
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Miles Vorkosigan
Blandings Castle
The Chronicles of Clovis
What are these about then?
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Combined.
How many do you own if you don't count duplicates?
I'm guessing at 1,700+ - we've got lots of Tolkien duplicates, but very few others.
Every dropped a book in the bath?
Yep! (although not recently).
Notable that you don't call the living room the same thing that C does.
Indeed. "Watching the English" would have something to say about that ... although it's partly regional, as well.
Too busy clearing away people's plates/tissues/drinks when they are still using them ;)
That's me ...
I seem to remember those, vaguely...
Blue and Green, ISTR.
Lucky you.
Yes; I know it does for a lot of people.
Miles Vorkosigan
Well-written humorous space opera. By Lois McMaster Bujold. Here:
http://www.dendarii.com/
Blandings Castle
By PG Wodehouse (of "Jeeves and Wooster" fame). Set in a country house (well, castle). Very formulaic, particularly later on; very, very funny.
The Chronicles of Clovis
Some of the best of the acerbically witty short stories by Saki (HH Munro). He died in 1916, so they are all in the public domain now, and easy to find online.