Five Questions About Books
(Thivai Abhor from Dialogic hit me with a book tag back in April)
Q1 — You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to save?
Man I’ve never read Fahrenheit 451, I don’t even know what it is about. I should feel ashamed huh? I also have never seen Fahrenheit 9/11. I’ve actively avoided seeing it. I was invited to see it multiple times before the election and I always declined saying that I was already depressed and didn’t need to be more so. I would wait until after Bush was removed from office. Anyway, so is Fahrenheit 451 some kind of spaceship thing? What would I take on a spaceship? I guess I would take my favorite book about an earth man raised on mars, Stranger in a Strange Land.
Q2 — Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Yes, Gilbert Blythe, from Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series.
Q3 — The last book you bought is?
Stripping and other stories by Pagan Kennedy
Q4 — What books are you currently reading?
That is a tough question. I have at least a half dozen books that are in some process of reading. I think the two I am the most likely to completly finish that I am currently reading are Primary Colors and Hasta no verte Jesus Mio by Elena Poniatowska.
Q5 — Five books you would take to a desert[ed] island?
hmmm this is a tough one. The letter with the most entries from an Encylopedia–is that ‘S’?, A good survival cookbook, a survival book, a book on solitary games, and last but not least a book on urban planning.
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Farenheit 451 is about a totalitarian regime where the government outlaws books. They have book burnings, etc. Its short and I would highly recommend it! I am stealing these questions for my blog, too of course!
Comment on May 23, 2005 09:07 amthanks for the “reading list,” i’m curious about the Stranger book.
Farenheit 451: in this story, a little girl asks a life changing question to the main character “Are you happy?” The firefighter (in the future, firefighters actually start fires, burn books). After this, he was in path to liberation.
he realized that he wasn’t happy and that reality could be different.
Comment on May 24, 2005 12:40 pmStranger in a Strange Land? I’ve read it 3 plus times now and it’s really put me off Heinlein, who was my first favorite author, starting around when I was 13 or so. I was probably about 15 the first time I read it and I thought it was great. I thought it was great the 2nd time. Then I could barely make it through the third time and couldn’t finish it the fourth time. If you haven’t read it yet I would recommend it though. What eventually put me off Heinlein is the sort of pedantic, self righteous moralizing of the main characters. For an example, think of the history teacher in Starship Troopers played by Michael Ironsides. It’s even worse in the novel Starship Troopers, (which is a lot better than the movie). Anyway, I will always have fond memories of Heinlein, the first author that I read every novel, and the, how shall I say it, loose sexual mores of his female characters, but now I don’t think I could stomach reading one again, so in short, I would take something else besides Stranger in a spaceship. You Grok?
Comment on May 24, 2005 04:52 pmI really wanna read anything by Elena Poniatowska. You’ve motivated me … I’m gonna fill mine out tomorrow.
Comment on May 24, 2005 11:05 pmAll these readers! Anyone want to review books for the journal Reconstruction–I’ll get you new copies…
Elena thanks for the list!
Comment on May 26, 2005 04:01 amOso, you should read Brown Girl’s account of when she got to meet Elena Poniatowska. Not only is she a great writer, but she’s also pretty cool.
Comment on May 26, 2005 08:32 pmI wouldn’t necessarily say its my favorite book but I really do like Stranger in a Strange Land. I remember it was really moving when I first read it. (The ending made me cry but keep it on the down-low). It has a real potential to change the way people think about certain things. I’ve heard that there are some people who are so into the book that they’ve actually made a Church of the All-Worlds ?!?! (Although they are probably less scarier than Scientology)
Comment on May 30, 2005 08:30 pm