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infanttyrone.
1. One book that changed your life
The thing is, I think I've done this meme or another similar--twice, in fact--so I hate to give the exact same answers. (The previous answers were One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Lord of the Rings, and On Stranger Tides, for those keeping score.) Instead I'll give you Mircea Eliade's Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, which is very long and somewhat dry and yet still managed to give me a new dimension of understanding of the functions of myth in magico-religious thought. Seriously, the whole bit in Hávamál where Odin hangs on the tree to discover the runes? (It's stanzas 137-on if you're interested.) Had so much more meaning to me after I read this book. Which, you know, is kind of a rareified reason to love a book, but I do.
2. One book you have read more than once
Hm. I don't reread very often nowadays, but I recently revisited Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club, which is, ya know, awesome.
3. One book you would want on a desert island
Six Sigma for Small Business? Nah, probably not. Um. I'll say The Canterbury Tales, 'cause I have yet to read it.
4. One book that made you laugh
Most books I read do. If there's no humor in a book at all it's hard for me to enjoy it. But I'm reading Against the Day right now (yes, still) and it's very funny.
5. One book that made you cry
Hm. I think I already told my embarrassing Anne of Green Gables story. Have I told how I always used to cry when Boromir died? Man, I was a dork.
6. One book you wish had been written
The Secret Testament of My Forbidden Love For David J. Schwartz, by Kate Winslet. Could be she's just looking for a publisher?
7. One book you wish had never had been written
Kind of a harsh question. OK, The Scarlet Letter. If only I could have that part of high school back.
8. One book you are currently reading
I already told you! I did just finish City of Whispering Stone, though. Mongo the Magnificent! Peter Dinklage is playing him in the movie!
9. One book you have been meaning to read
I've had Julie Phillips' Tiptree biography next to the bed for months, and I haven't yet cracked it. Too many books!
10. Now tag 5 people
ALL RIGHT I'M TAGGING PEOPLE!!! THIS IS IT!!! OR RATHER YOU ARE IT!!!megmccarron haddayr _stranger_here susansugarspun squirrel_monkey! THE FRAGILE SOCIAL CONTRACT IS NOW IN YOUR HANDS!!! !! !
infanttyrone.1. One book that changed your life
The thing is, I think I've done this meme or another similar--twice, in fact--so I hate to give the exact same answers. (The previous answers were One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Lord of the Rings, and On Stranger Tides, for those keeping score.) Instead I'll give you Mircea Eliade's Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, which is very long and somewhat dry and yet still managed to give me a new dimension of understanding of the functions of myth in magico-religious thought. Seriously, the whole bit in Hávamál where Odin hangs on the tree to discover the runes? (It's stanzas 137-on if you're interested.) Had so much more meaning to me after I read this book. Which, you know, is kind of a rareified reason to love a book, but I do.
2. One book you have read more than once
Hm. I don't reread very often nowadays, but I recently revisited Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club, which is, ya know, awesome.
3. One book you would want on a desert island
Six Sigma for Small Business? Nah, probably not. Um. I'll say The Canterbury Tales, 'cause I have yet to read it.
4. One book that made you laugh
Most books I read do. If there's no humor in a book at all it's hard for me to enjoy it. But I'm reading Against the Day right now (yes, still) and it's very funny.
5. One book that made you cry
Hm. I think I already told my embarrassing Anne of Green Gables story. Have I told how I always used to cry when Boromir died? Man, I was a dork.
6. One book you wish had been written
The Secret Testament of My Forbidden Love For David J. Schwartz, by Kate Winslet. Could be she's just looking for a publisher?
7. One book you wish had never had been written
Kind of a harsh question. OK, The Scarlet Letter. If only I could have that part of high school back.
8. One book you are currently reading
I already told you! I did just finish City of Whispering Stone, though. Mongo the Magnificent! Peter Dinklage is playing him in the movie!
9. One book you have been meaning to read
I've had Julie Phillips' Tiptree biography next to the bed for months, and I haven't yet cracked it. Too many books!
10. Now tag 5 people
ALL RIGHT I'M TAGGING PEOPLE!!! THIS IS IT!!! OR RATHER YOU ARE IT!!!
megmccarron haddayr _stranger_here susansugarspun squirrel_monkey! THE FRAGILE SOCIAL CONTRACT IS NOW IN YOUR HANDS!!! !! !