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Friday Five

1. What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)?

novels, probably. quite into poetry at the moment, but it's not so much of a long-term thing.

2. What is your favorite novel?

I have to pick one?
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. or possibly Crime And Punishment by Dostoyevsky. though both of them are quite pretentious, aren't they? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? Jane Eyre? um. can't think.

3. Do you have a favorite poem? (Share it!)

favourite of the moment is Fire and Ice, by Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice

(my lack of punctuation - can't be bothered looking it up)
also quite partial to Cargoes (my mother's favourite) and various by Emily Dickinson, Rebecca Elson, Catullus... I'll stop now.

4. What is one thing you've always wanted to read, or wish you had more time to read?

I have a couple of big novels that I haven't yet read - Vanity Fair and Anna Karenina - but I wouldn't say I'd always wanted to... 'cause I've read War and Peace and the Bible, and those are the two biggies, and... huh.

5. What are you currently reading?

re-reading LOTR. spending more time on fanfic than actual novels these days.


I give up. nostalgia_lj told me to.

I do vary wildly in my tastes. musically, literately(?)... everything, I go from crap to good and old to new and... the nice word for me is "eclectic"

Comments

[thedoctor-lj.livejournal.com]

I met Heller once. Lovely man.

[wishfulaces.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Reading LOTR right now too. Never let it be said that movies and television ruins literature for people. I never would have read Dickens if it weren't for Paul McGann.

Er...that was a mild wander. The fundamental interconnectedness of all things shows up once again. Or something.