Here are my answers to Nancy’s book meme which I would have posted a lot earlier but now it takes me a long time to do links and colors and stuff, plus Blogger was being weird.
You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
The Sound and The Fury, by William Faulkner. Obviously. “When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o’clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
When I was in college, Bertie Wooster. Later on (ahem, okay, still), Lord Havelock Vetinari, The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. A supercilious autocrat with a terrier named Wuffles - what’s not to love?
The last book you bought is:
A Death in Vienna (see below) by Daniel Silva and Wait Until Midnight by Amanda Quick.
The last book you read:
Cryin’ Time (A Kate Banning Mystery) by Cecelia Tishy. I thought it sucked extreme donkey balls. Lame mystery, improbable storyline but most irritating: I have never, NEVER, NEVER read any author who went into such excruciating, torturous detail about her character’s movement from Point A to Point B. Does Kate wind up a few details at the office, pick up a couple of items at the supermarket and then head home? Why, NO. Kate leaves the office through the westward (Market Street) entrance, walks south briskly for two blocks, passing the Auto Zone and Fancy Pants Boutique on her left, turns right and enters the Central Parking garage on North Avenue, climbs two flights on the eastward stairwell, walks six spaces to her Buick, exits the parking deck heading south, turns east on Elm, drives past the Starbucks at the corner of College Avenue, the Red Lobster, Sears and the Regal 8 Cinema, notices that Dale at the Amoco has closed early, stops for a red light at Walgreen’s, notices that traffic is sluggish so she turns off Elm onto Austin Street where traffic picks up and she hits 40mph for those two blocks just past the stadium, then she turns left into Publix but not the Publix on Elm at Central, the small Publix further down near Highway 212...304 pages but the entire story could have been told in 46 if Kate ever just “went” anywhere.
What are you currently reading?
A Death In Vienna, Daniel Silva
Five books you would take to a deserted island:
James Douglas MacBride’s Handbook of Practical Shipbuilding
US Army Survival Manual: FM 21-76 by the U.S. Department of Defense
John and Geri McPherson’s Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills
James Greenwood’s The Sailor’s Sea-Book: A Rudimentary Treatise on Navigation
The Sound and The Fury, by William Faulkner (hey, I have to memorize it)
MONTOYA DELENDA EST!
You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
The Sound and The Fury, by William Faulkner. Obviously. “When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o’clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
When I was in college, Bertie Wooster. Later on (ahem, okay, still), Lord Havelock Vetinari, The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. A supercilious autocrat with a terrier named Wuffles - what’s not to love?
The last book you bought is:
A Death in Vienna (see below) by Daniel Silva and Wait Until Midnight by Amanda Quick.
The last book you read:
Cryin’ Time (A Kate Banning Mystery) by Cecelia Tishy. I thought it sucked extreme donkey balls. Lame mystery, improbable storyline but most irritating: I have never, NEVER, NEVER read any author who went into such excruciating, torturous detail about her character’s movement from Point A to Point B. Does Kate wind up a few details at the office, pick up a couple of items at the supermarket and then head home? Why, NO. Kate leaves the office through the westward (Market Street) entrance, walks south briskly for two blocks, passing the Auto Zone and Fancy Pants Boutique on her left, turns right and enters the Central Parking garage on North Avenue, climbs two flights on the eastward stairwell, walks six spaces to her Buick, exits the parking deck heading south, turns east on Elm, drives past the Starbucks at the corner of College Avenue, the Red Lobster, Sears and the Regal 8 Cinema, notices that Dale at the Amoco has closed early, stops for a red light at Walgreen’s, notices that traffic is sluggish so she turns off Elm onto Austin Street where traffic picks up and she hits 40mph for those two blocks just past the stadium, then she turns left into Publix but not the Publix on Elm at Central, the small Publix further down near Highway 212...304 pages but the entire story could have been told in 46 if Kate ever just “went” anywhere.
What are you currently reading?
A Death In Vienna, Daniel Silva
Five books you would take to a deserted island:
James Douglas MacBride’s Handbook of Practical Shipbuilding
US Army Survival Manual: FM 21-76 by the U.S. Department of Defense
John and Geri McPherson’s Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills
James Greenwood’s The Sailor’s Sea-Book: A Rudimentary Treatise on Navigation
The Sound and The Fury, by William Faulkner (hey, I have to memorize it)
MONTOYA DELENDA EST!
2 Comments:
That was great! Thank you for posting it. I particularly enjoyed the Faulkner quote and the impression of the woman who never just WENT anywhere - that was hilarious. Your link to your second literary crush went to my meme blog instead of where it was supposed to go.
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Anonymous Me, at 9:57 PM
Okay - it's fixed now. *mumbles curses at computer because obviously it was the computer which was at fault and in no way the operator*
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Helly, at 10:21 AM
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