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Saturday, April 16, 2005
Bloody questionnaires!Reidski did a meme and made me do it to. So here it is: Steve and Alan if you read this, I am passing the baton onto you.
You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
thewife and I weren't sure about the meaning of this question. I haven't read Fahrenheit 451 (Should I soon?) so looked it up here (Mmm speed reading huh last year's stuff, just pop in the book title and get a quick synopsis in minutes, no need to read whole bulky books ever again!) Anyway is it what book you'd like to see burn? Easy anything religious, or is it - What book should save the world? maybe To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Mary Ann Singleton, before she became a mega broadcaster. Although it may have really have been Laura Linney.
The last book you bought is:
The Wisdom of Crocodiles by Paul Hoffman (Second Hand from Oxfam) It was a monster, gripped me to start with but lost me towards the end, thewife says they made it into a movie which was every bit as confusing as the book!
The last book you read:
Jonathan Coe's the Closed Circle. The follow-up to his excellent 70s based The Rotters Club, which was recently serialised brilliantly by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais for the BBC.
What are you currently reading?
High Society by Ben Elton, I've just opened it so that I can answer this question. I'm a terrible reader, I don't read anywhere near enough then I'll do nothing else but read. To be honest, I'm a victim of binge reading.
Five books you would take to a deserted island:
I was tempted to take Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City Series, but I would have had to leave one out and I'm not sure which one it would have been. So instead I'll take Tales of the City itself.
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, I loved it so much and it was perhaps THE book which most evoked extremes of my emotions.
Reidski mentioned The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks. I'd have to take something by Ian Banks, but it would be between Espedair Street and The Bridge and I think the Bridge might just edge it on account of the complexity and the three books in one so to speak. That and the odd fact that with the exception of The Skids, I have every single track mentioned in the book on vinyl. I always had the feeling that he looked through my albums before writing it. Oh and not forgetting that it introduced me to Laphroaig.
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. Strangely, Manuel introduced me to lots of books and I think perhaps that this was one of the first, possibly the only book I introduced him to. Possibly because he'd moved to Manchester at that time and it was a Scottish thing to start with. Anyway I would often get in from the pub of a night and have a lengthy passage from the book left on my answering machine. Classic.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson I read it for the first time fairly recently and mentioned it just after Hunter S. Thompson died. See post on 22/02/05.
Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?
thewife for one and I'll put the results here. Steve from Occupied Country because it'll give me a reading list for the near future when I get my reading act together, and Alan from Gen X at 40 for an overseas perspective.
posted by timesnewroman at 5:19 PM
