I was tagged by my friend Zen in September. Here's my attempt at filling this out:
Book that changed your life - As a young impressionable 16 year old, I read a whole lot. The one book that really made me think, however, was in fact a play, The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare. I know Shakespearean plays make a lot of people cringe, but they truly delight me.
Book(s) you've read more than once - Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. The more I read it, the more I find it new. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I wish I could read Spanish so I could get a taste of the original.
Book you'd take to a deserted island - How to Survive on a Deserted Island ;) Seriously, though, I think I'd be lost without my books.
Book(s) that made you laugh - White Teeth by Zadie Smith, The Inscrutable American by Anurag Mathur and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Book that made you cry - Thomas Hardy novels: The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'Urbervilles,and Jude the Obscure. Also, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, and The Kite Runner by Kahled Hosseini
Book(s) you wish you had written - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Book you wish had never been written - A true English teacher response (sorry): None; all books add something to our existence.
Book you're currently reading - No one Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Book you've been meaning to read - Too many, but specifically: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Book you've been meaning to finish - The Life of Pi by Yann Martel; I just can't do it!
3 comments:
It doesn't get any better than Oscar Wilde!
Life Of Pi - you know what i did.
It was too slow for me. Once you get the crux of the matter and really feel good about keeping animals in the zoo, skip to the last 10 pages where the interview starts for Pi with a Japanese. It is downright hilarious. I've never laughed so hard, so loud. well that is not true. BirdCage was down right hilarious too, what with the manservant and Lane. But anyway.. please read the end of Life Of Pi and let us know.
Thanks
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