For Novala (because she gave such nice answers herself, and is so delightful. Also, I reserve the right to change my answers).
You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
The female sex android in a pulp paperback my father found on the bus once when I was a kid.
Margarita.
The last book you bought is:
Kafka on the Shore, Murakami
The last book you read:
Kafka on the Shore
What are you currently reading?
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace
The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
Five books you would take to a desert island.
A Moleskine
The Master and Margarita
Underworld, DeLillo
Finnegan’s Wake (I could finally read it, or use it to start fires).
One more book.
Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?
My daughter Beta, because I’d be really interested to hear.
Two commenters to this post, chosen at random, because I can’t decide. Cookie, because Novala can vouch for him.
Has anyone else not done this yet? And Anne, who was actually the first person who occurred to me, which made me think she must have already done this a long time ago, and whose bookshelves I have seen with these eyes, and which contain books like you wouldn’t believe. So take it away, Anne.
can’t choose me, ’cause I already did it!
http://suspendedanimation.blogs.com/suspendedanimation/2005/03/only_for_a_irea.html
but does that stop me commenting? buuuhhhhhh, no …
the ‘desert isle’ question was the hardest for me, because it’s not really as simple as ‘what are your favorites’ … it’s more, ‘what group of books can generate the most mental stimulation in an isolated environment?’
spoken like a true librarian, sigh.
that is one reason why i have trouble deciding, i can’t remember who’s already done it.
pick me, pick me! Novala can vouch for me:D
ALready did it. Piked Das Parfum, by Suskind or Naked My sedaris -I think- but now I think I’d have liked to pick hopscotch by Cortazar since I already know half of it anyway. I LOVED your choices, I mean, Mikhail Bulgakov, wonderful.
Ah. Hopscotch. Perfume, good ones. Sedaris. Yeah. What did you think of that last story in his last book, about drowning the mouse? I thought that was brilliant.
i haven’t done it.
I heard that mouse story on the radio a couple of weeks ago. Sedaris doesn’t always do it for me, but that was a great one.
A moleskine on desert island? “In case of loss, please return to Mig Living, Desert Island, Pacific. As a reward: fifty coconuts.”