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March 22, 2005
Book Meme
I found this over on Arete and thought this was one I could actually do. I love books, and found it hard to narrow down choices here, but today, these are my answers.
You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Many times. Some of the fine men who come to mind are: Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, Brandon Clayton Birmingham in The Flame and the Flower, the boy in The Black Stallion (when I was in elementary school), Francisco d'Anconia in Atlas Shrugged, and others whose names escape me at the moment.
The last book you bought is:
For school: Standing At Armageddon by Nell Irvin Painter.
For fun: Walden, in a pocket series hardcover
The last book you read:
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Just finished it over the break. After seeing the Emma Thompson adaptation many times, I thought I should see it in the original. Thumbs up for both.
What are you currently reading?
Selections from Political Writings 1910-1920, Antonio Gramsci; Hegemony and Revolution: A Study of Antonio Gramsci's Political and Cultural Theory by Walter Adamson; Composition Rhetoric by Robert Connors, Tropics of Discourse by Hayden White; The Writing of History by de Certeau. Just starting: Precarious Life by Judith Butler.
Five books you would take to a deserted island:
Dune by Frank Herbert
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand (might be the only way I'll ever get through the 60 pages of John Galt's radio address…)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like JMP I thought about including the Bible too. If I were going to do that, I'd leave Emerson behind.
I could do the last part and send it to three other folks, but I think instead I'll just invite anyone finding this to post theirs either as a comment or in their own blog one with a trackback.
Posted by cageyer at March 22, 2005 02:20 PM