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[cairistiona]

Copied this from engarian ! Thanks for digging it up from whatever corner of the Internet it was hiding.

Comment with the # (or a few numbers) you want me to answer.

(To make it easier for me and you, if you actually copy the number AND the query, I won't have to look everything up, and anyone else reading won't have to either. A win/win for everyone. In other words - PLEASE copy the entry you want me to answer.)

1. What is your favourite book and/or book series of all time?
2. What is the longest book you have ever read? How many pages?
3. What is the oldest book you have ever read? (Based on its written date)
4. What is a book series that everyone else loves but you do not?
5. What book or book series would you like to see turned into a film/ TV series?
6. What is your favourite stand-alone book?
7. What is a book that you feel glad for not reading?
8. What is a book that you feel guilty for not not reading?
9. What is a book you have read that is set in your country of birth?
10. What is a book that you own more than one copy of?
11. What horror book made you really scared?
12. What book do you passionately hate?
13. What is the biggest book series you have read? How many books are in it?
14. What book gives you happy memories?
15. What book made you cry?
16. What book made you laugh?
17. What is your favourite book that contains an LGBTQ+ character?
18. Have you read a book with a male protagonist? What is it?
19. Have you read a book set on another planet? What is it?
20. Have you ever been glad to not finish a series? Which?
21. Have you ever read a book series because you were pressured?
22. What famous author have you not read any books by?
23. Who is your favourite author of all time?
24. How many bookshelves do you own?
25. How many books do you own?
26. What is your favourite non-fiction book?
27. What is your favourite children’s/middle-grade book?
28. What is your next book on your TBR?
29. What book are you currently reading?
30. What book are you planning on buying next?
31. What was the cheapest book you bought?
32. What was the most expensive book you bought?
33. What is a book you read after seeing the movie/ TV series?
34. What is the newest book you have bought?
35. What three books are you most looking forward to reading this year?
36. What is a book you love that has a terrible trope? (Love triangle, etc)
37. Have you read a book in a different language? What was it?
38. What is a book you’ve read that is set in a time period before you were born?
39. What book offended you?
40. What is the weirdest book you have read?
41. What is your favourite duology?
42. What is your favourite trilogy?
43. What book did you buy because of its cover?
44. What is a book that you love, but has a terrible cover?
45. Do you own a poetry anthology? What is your favourite poem from it?
46. Do you own any colouring books based off other books?
47. Do you own any historical fiction?
48. What book made you angry?
49. What book has inspired you?
50. What book got you into reading?

Comments

[shirebound]

Oooh, I really like these...

4. What is a book series that everyone else loves but you do not?

14. What book gives you happy memories?

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

4. What is a book series that everyone else loves but you do not?


Game of Thrones. Or, at least I'm assuming I wouldn't love it, because I don't like huge long books full of violence and a bazillion characters and still less an entire series of them. I think I started the first one when I heard Sean Bean was going to be in the series and stopped it when his character died (should've seen that coming!)

14. What book gives you happy memories?

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books. I have loved those since I was a small girl and still re-read "The Long Winter" every fall.

[shirebound]

should've seen that coming!

LOL!

Shiremom still watches Little House reruns EVERY DAY.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I'm glad Shiremom enjoys the show. It took far too many liberties with the books for me to ever like it. I'd love to see a truly faithful version of The Long Winter but I doubt it'll ever happen.

[mrowe.livejournal.com]

7. What is a book that you feel glad for not reading?
33. What is a book you read after seeing the movie/ TV series?

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

7. What is a book that you feel glad for not reading?

Boy, there's a lot, I'm sure, but a few:

"13 Reasons Why"
"His Dark Materials"
All of the Game of Thrones books.
"50 Shades of Grey"

33. What is a book you read after seeing the movie/ TV series?

This one's easy: Lord of the Rings. I saw the movies and then had to read the books. I'd read "The Hobbit" waaaaaay back when I was about 11 or 12, but it didn't really resonate with me at that time of my life, so I never read any further until seeing the movies.

[mikononyte.livejournal.com]

Your response to Game of Thrones is much like mine. I got the book because of SB in the TV show (not having seen it). Figured it has to be good, yes?

Um, no. Did not get past the first chapter of the first book. I classify Martin in the same category as Stephen King.* Deplorable.

*(mileage may vary)

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I'm not a huge fan of King, either. I haven't read anything of his past "The Stand" (I read his first 3-4 books back in middle school in my "ooh, horror, cool" stage), aside from trying to read "The Dark Tower: Gunslinger," which wasn't horror but was... completely incomprehensible, at east to me. Overall, he's just too dark and violent for my tastes.

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

I'm very sad to see "His Dark Materials" on this list; it has nothing in common with the others. Fabulous, imaginative storytelling and great characters. (Not trying to start a fight! ♥)

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed the books.

I started them (indeed, I had the full set of paperbacks, a bargain deal I found... somewhere, maybe a local bookstore) but was troubled by a weird dark vibe and didn't continue. I then read some reviews praising these as "a fresh alternative" to CS Lewis, Tolkien etc. I'd already grown very weary of the whole grimdark anti-Tolkien trend in modern fantasy, and though these books may not be truly grimdark, I've found that books that are touted as "anti-Tolkien" or "stark reality" (the latter Pullman's own description) are just not my cuppa. I later read that Pullman never actually reads fantasy and... well, I was glad I didn't push through my initial dislike. I realize my opinion puts me in the minority, but oh well. Not the first time and I'm sure it won't be the last.

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

I realize my opinion puts me in the minority

No, not at all, you are not the first friend whose opinion I highly respect to have expressed that opinion, and for the very same reasons. (Though "stark reality" is NEVER a term I'd use to describe this series!)

[mikononyte.livejournal.com]

3. What is the oldest book you have ever read? (Based on its written date)

19. Have you ever read a book set on another planet? What is it?

Bonus question:
30. What book are you planning on buying (or borrowing) next?

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

3 - oldest book: I suppose Beowulf, though obviously the copy I read wasn't very old! If you're asking what actual book have I held in my hands that's the oldest, probably original Tarzan books that were my father's (that my mother, when I went to college, apparently gave away in a fit of downsizing, because they disappeared and I know *I* didn't get rid of them).

19 - book set on another planet: yep, loads of sci-fi on other words, plus a lot of non-earth fantasy. Most recent favorite: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells.

30 - book to borrow/buy/read next: right now I had to put aside John Scalzi's "The Collapsing Empire" (which also fits as an answer to #19!) to do an unofficial beta on Michael Sullivan's "Age of Death" (unofficial because there's not time for his usual full-on, survey-with-each-chapter beta because he has to get the book to the publisher), but after I'm done with the beta read, I'll probably go back to Scalzi's book and after that, I have a free copy of Robert Jordan's "New Spring" to try. I've never read the Wheel of Time books but have wanted to, so here's my chance to see if it's my cuppa.

[imbecamiel.livejournal.com]

Ooo, this is a fun one! Let's see, doesn't look like anyone's asked these yet:

15. What book made you cry?

26. What is your favourite non-fiction book?

27. What is your favourite children’s/middle-grade book?

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

15 - book that made me cry: Most recently, "Boy's Life" by Robert R. McCammon. There was a chapter that just flat made me *ugly* cry, which is something that rarely happens. I love McCammon's writing. He knows how to get right at those ol' emotions!

26 - Fave non-fiction book: hmm. I'm not really much on non-fiction reading, per se, although I suppose biographies fall in that category, so I'll say "Maybe I'll Pitch Forever" by Satchel Paige. I'm fascinated by the history of Negro League Baseball and Satchel Paige was such a unique and wonderful individual, sort of a black Will Rogers as far as wit and wisdom goes (some of his expressions: "Don't look back, something might be gaining on you." and "Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter." I haven't read it in years and years, but I need to revisit it. Another good autobiography, "Failure Is Not An Option" by Gene Kranz, the NASA flight director during the Apollo 13 mission (the one played by Ed Harris in the movie). Finally, "John Ransom's Andersonville Diary," a first-hand account of a Union soldier's survival in the Confederate prison-of-war camp. How he kept his spirits up and his sanity and sense of humor intact is a wonder to read.

27 - Favorite children/middle-grade book: the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, for sure. I love them and still re-read them every few years. I also really liked Anne Of Green Gables, though I didn't read those until I was an adult. But they're also a favorite.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

24. How many bookshelves do you own? ( You can post pictures, too. I love looking at other people's bookshelves )

44. What is a book that you love, but has a terrible cover?

Bonus : Which among the books that you own has the prettiest cover?

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I have to put the answer in a post because it's too fiddly to try to put photos in a comment. :) I'll answer all three questions in the post, which I'm off to put together now.