Well, well, well: I’ve been book memed.
I’ve been book meme’d!
or so Mags would have you believe.
Bottoms up–
–You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
Haven’t read it in a decade (and skimmed it when I did, for shame) but it’s in my “Bookshelf Queue” and soon will be ready for discussion (*cough* Rebecca).
Springboard off Mags’ response:
If I am to be a book to be censored:
I appreciate the disrespect to Bakhtin, I think if he weren’t such a wordy fuck he could distill what he thinks (which is obscure enough) into a nice meaty paragraph instead of a tome. But right now, I feel like censoring (non-theoretical here) anything by PROUST. One word, pal: Chapters. They’ll maintain your focus, and our attention. Madeleines are tasty, but mostly you are a huge waste of time. In my lil’ opinion.
If I am a book to be saved and hidden away by The Book People, I’d like to be:
Today, it feels like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
–Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Totally. Lindsay Weir (i.e. Linda Cardellini) from Freaks and Geeks. Hands down. But that’s television.
Bookwise: I’ve always admired Penelope from Homer’s Odyssey, because she could do whatever the female equivalent of “keeping it in her pants” is. If I wanted to slum it, I’d go for Jane Eyre – great narrator. Very intelligent. Emily Dickinson is not fictional.
–The last book you bought is:
Eleanor Rigby, by Douglas Coupland.
–The last book you read:
Naked Pictures of Famous People, Jon Stewart.
–What are you currently reading?
Flatland, Edwin A. Abbott.
I generally read one book at a time; my next two will be Sex: A Natural History, by JoAnn Ellison Rodgers (why not) and the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, by Mark Haddon.
–Five books you would take to a deserted island:
1. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe, because I’m hilarious.
2. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, because she was right.
3. Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, because being a self-righteous bum is better than being an ignorant bum. (j/k hd, i luv u!!!!)
4. Catch-22, Joseph Heller, because I bring this book wherever I live and I STILL haven’t read it.
5. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, since perhaps this deserted island isn’t yet privy to this novel’s global stranglehold. Plus, the book’s enjoyable. And I’m still hilarious.
–Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons)? And why?
Katie, partially ’cause she just finished a book I’ll be starting.
Meri, ’cause I feel like she’d find cool books that I may not have heard of (Jay, I know you’re literate but tres busy – you guys can share a list if you’d like).
Lauren, ’cause optometry students just aren’t busy enough.
No rush no harm no foul folks: we can’t all be Thoreauvian socialist slackers in search of internships.
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