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[trinityvixen]

1. One book that changed your life.
Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn. My fifth grade teacher despaired at getting me to read anything that wasn't Nancy Drew, and this is the book that weaned me off that addiction and got me to be more open-minded about my reading selection.

2. One book that you've read more than once.
The Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt. Anne Rice's sister, you know.

3. One book you'd want on a desert island.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I never get tired of that one.

4. One book that made you laugh.
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett. Specifically, this exchange between two characters:

Carrot: "Did you know she was a werewolf?"
Colon: "Um ... Captain Vimes kind of hinted, sir..."
Carrot: "How did he hint?"
Colon: "He sort of said, 'Fred, she's a damn werewolf.'"

5. One book that made you cry.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling. Do I need to say that it was because she killed a Weasley, or is that a given?

6. One book that you wish had been written.
A decent zombie novel?

7. One book that you wish had never been written.
Any of the sequels (or prequels) to Dune by Frank Herbert after Dune Messiah (and maybe Children of Dune, maybe). Because they all devolved into porn. Creepy, creepy porn. With competing factions of space whores. I'm not joking.

8. One book you're currently reading.
Comic Book Nation by Bradford W. Wright.

9. One book you've been meaning to read.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Because everyone who has read it and knows me tells me I will love it. I have bought myself a copy (after going to the bookstore to look for it without knowing the author's name and catching a break by its being out on a table). I'm going to read it, I swear to God.

Bonus question: What book scared you the most?
Probably the collection of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schawartz and Stephen Gammell. Sure, now that I'm older I get that the stories weren't all that scary, but the art in those books? STILL SCARES ME. How horrific was that art? HOW DID THEY LET CHILDREN READ THESE BOOKS? Because they were at every book fair my elementary school ever hosted.

Comments

[viridian.livejournal.com]

How sad is it that I want to buy that box set of those books, but I'd probably keep them hidden away in a closet somewhere so I wouldn't run any risk of accidentally getting a glimpse of the art?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I have the collected set (it's just one hard-bound book) and I keep it shelved in the space under my night table. Which is so far down and usually blocked by me leaving the drawer out that I hardly know it's there.

So to answer your question: not that sad.

[shell524.livejournal.com]

OMG there's a collected set? WHY DIDN'T I KNOW THIS?!

This is almost as exciting as the giant boxed set of Create Your Own Adventure books that I found at the B&N on 6th Ave.!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I got mine off of amazon one day. Yay for the collected edition meaning I only have to hide one book!

[shell524.livejournal.com]

I may have to obtain this. I'm slowly rebuilding some of the YA collection I used to have. I will have to contain myself, though. I had shelves upon shelves of pre-Goosebumps R.L. Stine, Lois Duncan, Scary Stories books, alongside my humongous collection of Black Stallion, Marguerite Henry, Babysitters Club, and Sweet Valley books. AND.... yeah. I don't have room for that stuff. :p

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Oh man, all those too? No room! Besides which, I really only want the ones that are responsible for me being the way I am. The Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books fit that bill. I blame them for my morbid sense of humor.