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This fabulous lit quiz is copied from Facebook:


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

2) What book do you own the most copies of? Hmmm, could be Pride and Prejudice, could be Great Expectations

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions? YES! So much so that I almost edited the post.

4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with? James Steerforth. Also Willoughby. The bad boys--how...unironic.

4a) What fictional character would you most like to be? Queen Elizabeth I. Oh wait, she's real...

4b) What fictional character do you think most resembles you? I'm coming back to this one. Princess Buttercup? Viola in Twelfth Night? Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice? Bridget Jones? Amelie? I feel like there is an obvious answer that I am missing.

5) What book have you read the most times in your life? Great Expectations (Yeah, I'm a nerd. Laugh it up; my vocabulary's probably bigger than yours)

6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old? Ten? Hmmmmmmm. The Little Prince.

7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year? I don't read bad books, as a rule.

8) What is the best book you've read in the past year? I am currently reading Tinkers by Paul Harding and it is really good.

9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be? Lolita by Nabakov. Not because pedophilia is my thing, but because it sets such a standard for prose.

10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature? Oh dood. My tastes are not so current.

11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie? Princess Bride! Oh wait...

12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie? The phone book. It would be funny at first, but after awhile I think you would get the point.

(haha, I'm leaving your answer, Spencer)

13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I had a pretty amazing dream about Howard Rourke one time, but I don't remember the specifics.

14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult? The DaVinci Code, and only because it was given to me by a dear friend. And now, when I say that reading Dan Brown is tantamount to watching the television, I'm speaking from experience.

15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? Ulysses! Also War and Peace. Serious business, that. War times are super tedious.

16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen? Seen? Isn't this about reading. My favorite is Twelfth Night. Also The Tempest.

17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians? Wait a second--are France and Russia two different countries? ; )

18) Roth or Updike? No opinion here.

19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers? Eggers, because he's the only one of the two I've read.

20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer? This question is totally unfair. Shakespeare, obviously. Anyone who answers Chaucer or Milton is just being pretentious.

21) Austen or Eliot? Apples or Oranges?

22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading? The 1900's

23) What is your favorite novel? East of Eden, David Copperfield & Lolita

24) Play? Blech

25) Poem? "The Ghost" by Robert Lowell

26) Essay? Louis Menand on Bob Dylan

27) Short story? "The Adventures of Froggy March" by Christopher Harris, forthcoming in the first issue of Slush Pile.

28) Work of non-fiction? The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene

29) Who is your favorite writer? Dickens

30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today? God, most of them

31) What is your desert island book? David Copperfield

32) And ... what are you reading right now? Great Expectations, Tinkers by Paul Harding, Ad Infinitum by Nicholas Ostler, Selected Poems by Robert Lowell, Harvard Review 35, & Or To Begin Again by Ann Lauterbach


Reading=YAY