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1. What is your favorite passage/line from a book?
Um... "It rather galled [him] to think they all were going to die here just because they had come to watch the pretty stars go through some rare astronomical phenomenon." -- Paraphrased from Star Trek: Voyager - Section 31: Shadow by two authors whose names I forget because the book is some 200 miles away from me at the moment.
2. What do you consider the best film adaptation from a book? What do you think is the worst film adaptation?
I tend to avoid film adaptations, usually because they don't live up to the books, and I can't actually think of any that I've seen that I enjoyed. At the other end of the spectrum, the film adaptation of DUNE sucked spectacularly. Major disappointment.
3. What is the first book you remember reading?
Apparently I'd started reading Enid Blyton books long before I started school. Possibly the Mallory Towers or St. Clare's series before anything else.
4. Did you have a favorite kids’ book as a child?
The aforementioned Enid Blyton until I was 10 or 11. After that, I got into the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate in a big (read: utterly life consuming) way right up until I was 17. In between all of that, there was the odd romance novel from the charity shop where my granny volunteered, and Star Trek books. Lots and lots of Star Trek books.
5. What book did you hate reading for a school assignment?
Un Sac de Billes by Joseph Joffo for A2 French, and another French book whose name I cannot remember (and don't want to. Ever. It was some crappy autobiography written in a dialect that wasn't even proper French, so wtf?) I still have the English translation of the Joffo book on a shelf at home somewhere.
6. What is the most recent book you read (or are currently reading)?
The Politics of the Independence of Kenya, Moi: The Making of an African Statesman and Themes in Kenyan History for the dissertation. Otherwise I periodically dip into P.J. O'Rourke's Age and Guile for a giggle, but I haven't done that recently.
7. What book would you most like to see turned into a movie?
None.
8. What book did you cheat and read the "Cliff Notes" version?
The French biopic of unknown title for the hellish class that was A2 French. Didn't domuch any good though.
9. What book would you never read again, no matter how much someone was going to pay you?
See above.
10. Are you more of a library or book store person?
I used to be both in college. Nowadays I buy my own books.
11. Have you tried audio books? Do you like them?
No. They're just not my thing.
12. Has any movie ever inspired you to then read the book on which it was based?
The Golden Compass. I'm going to get the trilogy over Easter, I think.
13. Describe a passage from a book that made you cry.
The final scene from The Time Traveler's Wife, where the elderly Claire is waiting in the cafe for Henry, and when he finally does arrive, he realises it's her. I didn't cry, exactly, but it was emotional.
14. What is your favorite book series?
I will always love the Animorphs series.
15. Describe your favorite place to read.
Curled up on the sofa at home, with Henry, and a big mug of tea.
wihluta.1. What is your favorite passage/line from a book?
Um... "It rather galled [him] to think they all were going to die here just because they had come to watch the pretty stars go through some rare astronomical phenomenon." -- Paraphrased from Star Trek: Voyager - Section 31: Shadow by two authors whose names I forget because the book is some 200 miles away from me at the moment.
2. What do you consider the best film adaptation from a book? What do you think is the worst film adaptation?
I tend to avoid film adaptations, usually because they don't live up to the books, and I can't actually think of any that I've seen that I enjoyed. At the other end of the spectrum, the film adaptation of DUNE sucked spectacularly. Major disappointment.
3. What is the first book you remember reading?
Apparently I'd started reading Enid Blyton books long before I started school. Possibly the Mallory Towers or St. Clare's series before anything else.
4. Did you have a favorite kids’ book as a child?
The aforementioned Enid Blyton until I was 10 or 11. After that, I got into the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate in a big (read: utterly life consuming) way right up until I was 17. In between all of that, there was the odd romance novel from the charity shop where my granny volunteered, and Star Trek books. Lots and lots of Star Trek books.
5. What book did you hate reading for a school assignment?
Un Sac de Billes by Joseph Joffo for A2 French, and another French book whose name I cannot remember (and don't want to. Ever. It was some crappy autobiography written in a dialect that wasn't even proper French, so wtf?) I still have the English translation of the Joffo book on a shelf at home somewhere.
6. What is the most recent book you read (or are currently reading)?
The Politics of the Independence of Kenya, Moi: The Making of an African Statesman and Themes in Kenyan History for the dissertation. Otherwise I periodically dip into P.J. O'Rourke's Age and Guile for a giggle, but I haven't done that recently.
7. What book would you most like to see turned into a movie?
None.
8. What book did you cheat and read the "Cliff Notes" version?
The French biopic of unknown title for the hellish class that was A2 French. Didn't do
9. What book would you never read again, no matter how much someone was going to pay you?
See above.
10. Are you more of a library or book store person?
I used to be both in college. Nowadays I buy my own books.
11. Have you tried audio books? Do you like them?
No. They're just not my thing.
12. Has any movie ever inspired you to then read the book on which it was based?
The Golden Compass. I'm going to get the trilogy over Easter, I think.
13. Describe a passage from a book that made you cry.
The final scene from The Time Traveler's Wife, where the elderly Claire is waiting in the cafe for Henry, and when he finally does arrive, he realises it's her. I didn't cry, exactly, but it was emotional.
14. What is your favorite book series?
I will always love the Animorphs series.
15. Describe your favorite place to read.
Curled up on the sofa at home, with Henry, and a big mug of tea.
