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letterblade) wrote2003-01-30 10:06 pm
letterblade) wrote2003-01-30 10:06 pm
The ever-lovin' book meme.
Book you keep meaning to read that always gets bumped to second place by new purchases: Um, besides everything on my shelves?
Book you put down halfway through and never got back to: The Once and Future King. (T. H. White?) Twice, in fact.
Book you love and can never convince anyone else to read: The Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy, by Robert Anton Wilson. Maybe I just scare them when I talk about it.
Book you'll never read no matter how many people tell you you should: Not anything I can really think of. Although I make a point of avoiding Dickens.
Children's book that no-one else remembers except you: Mistress Masham's Repose, by T. H. White. Lilliputians in England, and a great deal of delightful silliness. What introduced me to Gulliver's Travels, and not the other way around. Also Sam the Cat Detective--forget the author--which was a hard-boiled detective story, only with cats instead of people. I think upon the laundry jokes still.
Children's book everyone seems to have read that you've never read / heard of: Ummm...Tuck Everlasting. Also vaguely remember trying to read The Swiss Family Robinson but fled in terror because I found it deathly dull.
Book you loved on first reading which on subsequent readings wasn't as good as you remembered: The vast majority of my beloved stack of Star Trek novels.
Most Overrated / Overhyped Book or Author, in your opinion: The Hobbit. I mean, next to Tolkien's greater works...
Most Underrated / Misunderstood Book or Author, in your opinion: Lord Dunsany. Why isn't he more widely known?
Book you put down halfway through and never got back to: The Once and Future King. (T. H. White?) Twice, in fact.
Book you love and can never convince anyone else to read: The Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy, by Robert Anton Wilson. Maybe I just scare them when I talk about it.
Book you'll never read no matter how many people tell you you should: Not anything I can really think of. Although I make a point of avoiding Dickens.
Children's book that no-one else remembers except you: Mistress Masham's Repose, by T. H. White. Lilliputians in England, and a great deal of delightful silliness. What introduced me to Gulliver's Travels, and not the other way around. Also Sam the Cat Detective--forget the author--which was a hard-boiled detective story, only with cats instead of people. I think upon the laundry jokes still.
Children's book everyone seems to have read that you've never read / heard of: Ummm...Tuck Everlasting. Also vaguely remember trying to read The Swiss Family Robinson but fled in terror because I found it deathly dull.
Book you loved on first reading which on subsequent readings wasn't as good as you remembered: The vast majority of my beloved stack of Star Trek novels.
Most Overrated / Overhyped Book or Author, in your opinion: The Hobbit. I mean, next to Tolkien's greater works...
Most Underrated / Misunderstood Book or Author, in your opinion: Lord Dunsany. Why isn't he more widely known?
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Oh, that one's a must-read. Even if you skip the middle, you've still got to read the very last section -- The Candle in the Wind. It's only about a hundred pages. (And when you're done with it, you'll laugh at this icon. Promise.)
:)
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You secretly love Dickens. Dickens is your friend. He's Our Mutual Friend, as a matter of fact....long chapters do not scare you. Scads of secondary characters do not scare you. Purple prose does not scare you. You want to curl up in from of a roaring fire with Nicholas Nickleby right now, in fact.
*subliminal off* ;)
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I avoid Dickens too, after a bad experience with Great Expectations in school - I think it was perhaps the scary old mad shouting teacher that put me off...