So Many Books, So Little Time
Posted by Jeff Markowitz on Thursday, March 11, 2010
I have greatly enjoyed reading everyone's answers...
to the current book survey. Here's mine.
Books next to your bed right now: Britten and Brulightly, Hannah Berry; Manhood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon; Talk Dirty Yiddish, Ilene Schneider
Favorite series: My favorite series hasn't been written yet. But it's in the works.
Favorite book: Another Roadside Attraction, Tom Robbins
The one book you would have with you if stranded on a desert island: And to Think that I Saw it on Mulberry Street, Dr. Seuss
Book/series you would take with you on a long flight: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, Michael Chabon (the best book I never seem to finish)
Worst book you were made to read in school: anything from the syllabus of my college class in modern European literature (it's amazing what terrible things a professor can do to good literature)
Book that everyone should be made to read in school: To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Book that everyone should read, period: anything by Kurt Vonnegut published between 1961 - 1969 (Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Slaughterhouse Five)
Favorite character: Monkey, in Monkey by Wu Cheng-En
Best villain: Livia, in I Claudius by Robert Graves
Favorite concept series: Hard Case Crime
Favorite invented world: The Cyberiad: Fables for a Cybernetic Age, Stanislaw Lem
Most beautifully written book: Shipwrecks, Akira Yoshimura
Funniest book: A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy O'Toole
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to the current book survey. Here's mine.
Books next to your bed right now: Britten and Brulightly, Hannah Berry; Manhood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon; Talk Dirty Yiddish, Ilene Schneider
Favorite series: My favorite series hasn't been written yet. But it's in the works.
Favorite book: Another Roadside Attraction, Tom Robbins
The one book you would have with you if stranded on a desert island: And to Think that I Saw it on Mulberry Street, Dr. Seuss
Book/series you would take with you on a long flight: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, Michael Chabon (the best book I never seem to finish)
Worst book you were made to read in school: anything from the syllabus of my college class in modern European literature (it's amazing what terrible things a professor can do to good literature)
Book that everyone should be made to read in school: To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Book that everyone should read, period: anything by Kurt Vonnegut published between 1961 - 1969 (Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Slaughterhouse Five)
Favorite character: Monkey, in Monkey by Wu Cheng-En
Best villain: Livia, in I Claudius by Robert Graves
Favorite concept series: Hard Case Crime
Favorite invented world: The Cyberiad: Fables for a Cybernetic Age, Stanislaw Lem
Most beautifully written book: Shipwrecks, Akira Yoshimura
Funniest book: A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy O'Toole
If you'd like to read the comments or to add a comment of your own, please follow this link.
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