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1. One book that changed your life 2. One book you have read more than once 3. One book you would want on a desert island 4. One book that made you laugh 5. One book that made you cry 6. One book you wish had been written 7. One book you wish had never had been written 8. One book you are currently reading 9. One book you have been meaning to read Write as much or a little as you like (but preferably the former). I'll post my answers later. |
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12.27.2007, 02:09 AM | #2 |
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1. One book that changed your life
That was Then This is Now 2. One book you have read more than once Catcher in the Rye, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, On the Road, Hamlet(Which I might read next), many I can't remember right now. 3. One book you would want on a desert island The Raw Shark Texts 4. One book that made you laugh The Raw Shark Texts 5. One book that made you cry So many I can't remember 6. One book you wish had been written Hamlet 7. One book you wish had never had been written Anything by Ayn Raynd 8. One book you are currently reading Slaughter House five 9. One book you have been meaning to read Hunger by Knut Hamsun.
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12.27.2007, 02:52 AM | #3 |
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1. Harry Potter series. I'm proud to be a nerdy wizard! Really though, I think Harry Potter was very significant for me because it was the first real book that I wanted to pick up and read. I think it was Harry Potter that really got me into reading.
2. In Cold Blood 3. House of Leaves 4. The Importance of Being Earnest (do plays count?) 5. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 6. ??? Is this supposed to be "a book you wish you had written?" 7. I agree with the Ayn Rand thing 8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (I find myself completely spacing out while reading this, and not caring to go back and figure out what I missed) 9. Dostoevsky. But I don't have the time to really concentrate. 8.
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12.27.2007, 05:16 AM | #4 |
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Master and Margarita , maybe... not sure. 2. One book you have read more than once Alice in wonderland 3. One book you would want on a desert island Alice in wonderland 4. One book that made you laugh Alice in Wonderland (), no, c'mon, I can drop another name: "Zazie in the metro" 5. One book that made you cry Little Prince, back in the days 6. One book you wish had been written Kinda hard to find a subject not already "covered".... 7. One book you wish had never had been written The Da Vinci Code, never read that but all the fuzz about it tired my nerves. 8. One book you are currently reading Chaplin's autobiography 9. One book you have been meaning to read Some Pennac stuff, never read a line.
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12.27.2007, 05:33 AM | #5 |
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1. One book that changed your life
fear and loathing in las vegas 2. One book you have read more than once also fear and loathing 3. One book you would want on a desert island again, fear and loathing or other HST material 4. One book that made you laugh how many times can i possibly repeat myself? 5. One book that made you cry i have never cried because of a book 6. One book you wish had been written ??? 7. One book you wish had never had been written a million little pieces -- that bastard doesn't deserve a dime for making all that shit up 8. One book you are currently reading i haven't read anything in quite awhile 9. One book you have been meaning to read open up and bleed
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12.27.2007, 05:44 AM | #6 |
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Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. 2. One book you have read more than once His Dark Materials Trilogy 3. One book you would want on a desert island Complete collection of Camus 4. One book that made you laugh Ahthing by Wilde 5. One book that made you cry His Dark Materials Triliogy, I wept like a 5 year old grazing his knee 6. One book you wish had been written The Bible. Man, I'd be so loaded from the sales from that. 7. One book you wish had never had been written Not gonna answer that as it's a stupid question 8. One book you are currently reading The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (again) 9. One book you have been meaning to read The Illiad
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1. One book that changed your life
Siddharta by Herrmann Hesse 2. One book you have read more than once 1984 by George Orwell 3. One book you would want on a desert island The Black Book of Communism 4. One book that made you laugh Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 5. One book that made you cry Snow and Blood by Dorota Maslowska 6. One book you wish had been written I can't think of any right now 7. One book you wish had never had been written ?? 8. One book you are currently reading After Dark by Haruki Murakami 9. One book you have been meaning to read The Bible
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12.27.2007, 12:23 PM | #8 |
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1984 2. One book you have read more than once trainspotting 3. One book you would want on a desert island the divine comedy (i've only read the inferno) 4. One book that made you laugh american psycho 5. One book that made you cry none 6. One book you wish had been written the idiot 7. One book you wish had never had been written the outsiders 8. One book you are currently reading early poems and journals by allen ginsberg 9. One book you have been meaning to read the rest of the divine comedy and kazantzakis' the odyssey |
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12.27.2007, 12:27 PM | #9 |
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^ the "rest" of the divine comedy is boring. circling planets & light everywhere--yawn. inferno is where it's at. but yeah skim thought it you'll find out.
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12.27.2007, 12:35 PM | #10 |
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Picasso by Gertrude Stein 2. One book you have read more than once Funeral Blues by Jean Genet 3. One book you would want on a desert island The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson 4. One book that made you laugh The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp 5. One book that made you cry Pass 6. One book you wish had been written Tonnes. Probably a good study of the New British Poetry post-war including J.H. Prynne, Andrew Crozier and others. I would also like Jackson MacLowe's French Sonnets back in print, and somebody to collect in one volume and put out the Susan Howe chapbooks that are long out of circulation. 7. One book you wish had never had been written None, that is brutal Nazi mentality. Keep all books because all are precious..... man. 8. One book you are currently reading The Book of Images by Rilke 9. One book you have been meaning to read Ways of Seeing by John Berger.
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12.27.2007, 12:39 PM | #11 |
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One book that changed your life
Beyond Good and Evil. 2. One book you have read more than once too many to say-- including the above mentioned-- but picking one out of a hat... Ficciones, by Borges. 3. One book you would want on a desert island Manual of Practical Teleportation 4. One book that made you laugh Candide 5. One book that made you cry I don't remember crying at books (honest), but Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina was quite a fucking depressing shock when I read it. 6. One book you wish had been written Manual of Practical Teleportation 7. One book you wish had never had been written Mein Kampf 8. One book you are currently reading Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko. 9. One book you have been meaning to read Nightwood. I've started it a couple of times and somehow got derailed. |
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12.27.2007, 12:46 PM | #12 |
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Jean-paul sartre's Being and Nothiness 2. One book you have read more than once Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange 3. One book you would want on a desert island A survival guide 4. One book that made you laugh Stephen King I luahg at least once in all his books 5. One book that made you cry The Cay 6. One book you wish had been written I don't quite understand this. 7. One book you wish had never had been written Harrpy Fucking Potter 8. One book you are currently reading Quite a few, I haven't finished a book in a while. 9. One book you have been meaning to read I've wanted to finish Being and Nothing for a couple of years. |
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12.27.2007, 08:19 PM | #13 |
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Hubert Selby Jnr, Last Exit to Brooklyn. 2. One book you have read more than once Maury Terry, The Ultimate Evil. 3. One book you would want on a desert island Tolstoy, Anna Karenin. 4. One book that made you laugh Stanley Booth, The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones. 5. One book that made you cry Tolstoy, Anna Karenin. 6. One book you wish had been written The Harry Potter series (for financial reasons alone) 7. One book you wish had never had been written Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on Las Vegas. 8. One book you are currently reading Dennis Wheatley, The Devil Rides Out. 9. One book you have been meaning to read Michael Moorecock, Dancers at the Edge of Time. |
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Interesting you would mention that as it was actually on the Michael Moorcock message board that I lifted this survey to begin with! Here are my answers: 1. One book that changed your life Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse 2. One book you have read more than once At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft 3. One book you would want on a desert island The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs since it could be read in more than one way and would hold up well to many rereads consequently. 4. One book that made you laugh Glover Undercover - Introducing the Sensuous Cop by Gary Blumberg 5. One book that made you cry Iron Council by China Mieville 6. One book you wish had been written Another Mathew Swain book by the late Mike McQuay 7. One book you wish had never had been written Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard 8. One book you are currently reading In the Ocean of Night by Gregory Benford 9. One book you have been meaning to read A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge |
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12.27.2007, 10:53 PM | #17 |
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1. One book that changed your life- Catch-22
2. One book you have read more than once- Dr. Seuss- Green Eggs and Ham (I'm not one for rereading books, but I'll most likely reread my favorites someday) 3. One book you would want on a desert island- something full of information on how to survive on a desert island 4. One book that made you laugh- Catch-22 5. One book that made you cry- ummm, I don't think I've ever cried while reading a book. Dostoevsky's The Idiot is pretty damn sad though. 6. One book you wish had been written- The Life of a Great Sinner (Dostoevsky died before he could write it) 7. One book you wish had never had been written- The Scarlet Letter 8. One book you are currently reading- Charles Bukowski- Ham on Rye 9. One book you have been meaning to read: Fyodor Dostoevsky- The Posessed |
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1. unbearable lightness of being
2. catcher in the rye, player piano, basically every book i've ever read 3. the raw shark texts, jpod, anything by poe 4. the whole gossip girl series (my guilty pleasure) 5. eh, never happened to me 6. anna karenina 7. bible 8. infinite jest 9. girl with curious hair
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1. One book that changed your life american hardcore, though it mostly confirmed many things in my life instead of changing them. but it still was a big impact. 2. One book you have read more than once a lot, a.h. is the one i've read the most, but about 90% of the books i've read have been done more than once. 3. One book you would want on a desert island on the road, very obvious answer for many but since i would be in a desert island, the idea of getting on the highway to somewhere else, would be appealing and make for good escapism. it's also a great book. 4. One book that made you laugh lester bang's psychotic reactions and carburator dung. 5. One book that made you cry lester bang's psychotic reactions and carburator dung (well, i didn't literally made me cry but i felt sad reading the pieces on peter laughner, sid vicious and new year's eve). 6. One book you wish had been written mostly music and history stuff, documenting stuff to preserve for future generations. 7. One book you wish had never had been written none, all books serve for a purpose and reason. there are people i wish wouldn't have written or even read books in the first place. 8. One book you are currently reading crime and punishment; yeah, that one. 9. One book you have been meaning to read japanrocksampler and anything by kenji siratori. |
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