Book Survey Meme
Published by michael March 19th, 2005 in literatureI love reading and wish more of it upon myself and others. Partially in the selfish hopes that participating will grant me several years of literary bliss, (ha!) I’ve chosen to replicate this book-survey meme Saheli passed on to me.
You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You, by Dorothy Bryant; the antithesis to Bradbury’s dystopia.
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Um… frequently, yes. A few (mostly fictional) that come to mind are
Stella from Illuminatus! by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea,
Maya of the Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk,
Rebeca from One Hundred Years of Solitude,
Sofia Mendes from The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, and
Mirabai, via For Love of the Dark One
The last book you bought is:
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The last book you read:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
What are you currently reading?
Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig
Five books you would take to a deserted island
Miracle of Love edited by Ram Dass,
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey,
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco &
La Casa de los Espiritus by Isabel Allende
Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?
Prentiss of Aprendiz de Todo because I marvel at his breadth,
Gareth of Any Street Corner, because he will surprise me, and
Talula (my sister) also of heliolith, ’cause we’re more alike than 5 years and 3000 miles might suggest, also maybe if I give her a framework she’ll post something =P heh.
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The people marveling at my breadth these days are usually referring to my waist size.
I’m not going to accept the meme-gauntlet, but we’ll see what I can think of on the spot. Hmm, crushes. There have been lots, probably starting with the cookie-cutter Barbies in all of Heinlein’s novels. I’m blocking on any candidates in proper Literature, though. Lately all my crushes are on punk divas and bloggers, and I’m not telling who.
I don’t get the Fahrenheit 451 idea. So I’d want to be burned? I’d rather be a bucket of water.
The desert island books would have to be weighty stuff I’ve never gotten around to reading in real life. The Canterbury Tales in a good dual-language edition, the Quixote in the original, the Iliad and/or Odyssey (in English translation, I’m a wimp), the Spanish equivalent of an OED, and a good grammar of whatever the nearest tropical neighbors speak.
I’d pass it on the Badger.
Quite a list Michael. Glad you took up the gauntlet.
I will have to check out the Dorothy Bryant book. . .but oh, my queue is so very long. ..