Oh to be a nerd...

You have received this note because someone thinks you are a literary geek. Copy the questions into your own note, answer the questions, and tag any friends who would appreciate the quiz, including the person who sent you this.

1) What author do you own the most books by?
John Steinbeck

2) What book do you own the most copies of?
"East of Eden"

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Indeed, i'm a man of specificity.

4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Violet from M.T Anderson's "Feed"

4a) What fictional character would you most like to be?
A grown up Antonio Marez.

4b) What fictional character do you think most resembles you?
Antonio Marez lol

5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
"V for Vendetta"

6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Definitely "Monster Blood 3"

7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
"Dangerous Angels" It's written well, but is the corniest piece of liberal writing i've ever read.

8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
"The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation" -M.T Anderson, again.

9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
"The Seven Storey Mountain" -Thomas Merton

10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
M.T Anderson

11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
"The Orchid Thief" bahahahahahaha...lol, that's definitely a nerd reference for Charlie Kaufman fans...

12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Another Alan Moore graphic novel.

13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
Can't think of any specifically, but I think I had a dream about being a revolutionary like "V."

14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Definitely "Dangerous Angels" but I had to read it for a class, so it's acceptable.

15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
"The History of Sexuality" -Michel Foucault (And I really only read Vol. 1)

16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
The BBC remake of "The Taming of the Shrew" was different, but it was quite enjoyable.

17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
THE FRENCH!!! I love the French theorists of the 20th century.

18) Roth or Updike?
Updike

19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Never read either...

20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Milton, because I love allegories.

21) Austen or Eliot?
Austen

22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I had a falling out with reading for a few months my Junior year of college.

23) What is your favorite novel?
"East of Eden"

24) Play?
"Death of a Salesman"

25) Poem?
"Invictus"

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.


26) Essay?
Nothing comes to mind at the moment...

27) Short story?
"Cathedral" -Raymond Carver

28) Work of non-fiction?
"History of Sexuality" -Michel Foucault

29) Who is your favorite writer?
John Steinbeck

30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
eh, i'm not much of a critic

31) What is your desert island book?
The Bible

32) And ... what are you reading right now?
"The Book Thief" and "One Day All Children..."