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22/09/04 (142 review reads) |
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Advantages: I love books
Disadvantages: I'm skint
I like books. I hate it when people bend their spines or turn their pages in at the corners. I don't like using a bookmark. I don't trust them so I memorise the page number. I write in my books. Some people think that's bad... but if I get inspired by a book I have to make a note then and there. Where else but on my shelf could you find Ronnie and Reggie Kray next to Aristophanes?
Right let the games begin .........
Question:
What is your favourite genre?
A: I don't have one really . I tend to go through phases of reading different genres. I often have three or four books on the go when I have the time to a) read them and b) go to the library. So this can in fact span genres. But I probably read true crime more than anything else , I suppose its the pseudo criminalogist in me.
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Q: Do you read the classics, i.e., the great authors of the 18th and 19th century?
A: Yep and I try to re- read them as often as possible. I really love Jane Austen so I can re-read them til the cows come home which is odd because I hated Persuasion when I first studied it. I also have a Norton Anthology of English Literature which I dip in and out of all the time as it has some great poetry and prose in it such as Donne and Wilde.
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Q: Are you interested in thrillers?
A: As I have the annoying habit of reading the first page last it's a bit of a no-go for me.
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Q: What about horror stories?
A: I used to love King. I have read most of his books including the Richard Bachman stuff and I got to a stage where I just thought he became predictable. I have read a lot of Clive Barker too. I do genuinely love horror books but with my imagination I often find the more subtle stories plague me.
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Q: Do you read science fiction?
A: I have read a few of the Red Dwarf but that's it.....
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Q: How many Harry Potter books have you read?
A: All of them. Yes I know, I know but it's like a drug and I'm a bit in love with Ron Weasley..
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Q: Have you ever read and enjoyed biographies or autobiographies?
A: Yes. I couldn't tell you who they were by really but I know that it has to be about a person I find really interesting. Those of you who read my opinion on Billy by Pamela Stephenson will know that I am quite hard to please. But yes, in general I have loved finding out about people like Vivienne Leigh and Lawrence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. I actively sought out more poetry by Ted Hughes after reading his biography. I like the fact that I can learn about people I admire from a book, rather than a computer which seems somehow more impersonal.
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Q: Do you remember any of the books you read and loved as a child?
A: I loved lots of Enid Blyton . Too many to list here and if I started I would feel unfaithful to the others. I collected a lot of Annuals and I also loved The Guinness Book Of Records. I read a lot of Nancy Drew, Judy Blume, Paula Danzinger and of course Roald Dahl. I was (and still am) obsessed with James and The Giant Peach and The Witches. I also had a Robert Louis Stevenson poem book which I was extremely fond of that included a poem about having to go to bed early and having no friends that used to make me cry. Once a Capricorn, always a Capricorn. When I was a teenager I loved the Adrian Mole books and had a huge crush on him. I am such a freak. Still that explains my dodgy taste in men.
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Q: Have you reread these books as a grown-up?
A: Yes of course I have. Except I lost my Robert Louis Stevenson one.... And I still love them. I re read ''Are you there God it's me Margaret?'' just last week because I bought it for 20p. I thought it was very sweet and I thanked the Lord that although I'm not ''stacked'' I have some breasts at least. Phew.
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Q: Is there a book of which you can say it has influenced you?
A: Yep. I have been really influenced by The Road Less Travelled books by Dr Scott M Peck. I can't explain how. It just felt like I'd realised a lot about my mind, my soul and my life by the end of them all. I was also very influenced by The Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes as the book practically lives and bleeds love and regret. It made me realise that for whatever time I have someone in my life, be it friend or lover, life is short.
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Q: Which are your favourite authors?
A: Sue Townsend. Every single thing I have read has made me laugh. But I also love Virginia Andrews as the Flowers In The Attic series made me feel every human emotion.
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Q: Which book would you take with you on a desert island?
A: I would take the complete poems of Emily Dickinson as she was not only prolific but perhaps produced some of the purest poetry I have ever come across. If I couldn't take that I would take a colouring book and felt pens or those magic painting books.
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Q: What is your attitude towards translations?
A: Well I wasn't really bothered but then my best mate was french and she started pointing subtitle mistakes in films so then I started thinking that could be the case with books, so I try to get the recommended translations.
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Q: Do you buy your books/ get them from the library/borrow them from friends/steal them?
A: All of the above. I am in a bookclub with a group of friends. I do try not to steal them as a rule but I didn't return my books from my A level Classical Civilsation dissertation as we moved house half way through and I forgot, but I kept them rather than the shame of taking them back six months late, that has happened to a few library books too - don't grass me up ! I don't do it on purpose.________________________
Q: When you buy books, do you prefer hardcover editions or pocket books?
A I like both but I suppose I buy paperbacks mostly. I always think hardbacks look neater on my bookshelves though.
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Q: Have you ever tried Audio Books?
A: Not really but if you could get any read by Alan Rickman I would be more than willing.
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Q: Last, book you bought/read?
A: The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime by Mark Haddon. I don't know quite what to make of it yet.
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And finally ::
"This challenge was originally set by MALU, please join in, read other people's entries and pass the challenge on to another bookworm!
Thanks for reading and rating this opinion. "
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carly_pussycat - 21/02/05 I enjoyed The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time :) I also hate people bending the spines of books...all mine look unread!
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