Book survey (from hayleyghoover)

I stole this from http://hayleyghoover.blogspot.com

1. What author do you own the most books by?
JK Rowling 10, John Irving 9

2. What book do you own the most copies of?
A Prayer for Owen Meany (3)

3. Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Kind of, but only because I’m writing my answers in MS word and I find the green underlining a little annoying

4. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
It’s not really a secret, but I am in love Fred Weasley.

5. What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?
I’ve read A Prayer for Owen Meany 8 times.

6. What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
When I was 10 I was big into the Laura Ingles Wilder books

7. What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
I read Breaking Dawn.

8. What is the best book you've read in the past year?
I read Peeps and The Last Day’s by Scott Westerfeld. Amazing. Also, Looking for Alaska.

9. If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Since most of my friends are against reading books for Teenagers, I would force them to read Looking for Alaska, and A Prayer for Owen Meany.

10. What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Movies have been ruining books since 1920. Movies based on books are always horrible

11. What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
I hold the same opinion to this question as the question above

12. Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I have really weird dreams involving the actual Novel A Prayer for Owen Meany, like the paperback novel. It mostly takes over the world.

13. What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Going to have to go with Twilight because I am

14. What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
I can’t say that any of the books I’ve read have been challenging, although I did have a very hard time finishing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows after page 637.

15. What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
I’ve only seen Much Ado About
Nothing and Romeo and Juliet on stage.

16. Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
If I have to pick between The Cherry Ochard and any other play ever, I’m going to with the French

17. Roth or Updike?
I’ve read more Updike, though not a big fan of either

18. David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
I’ve read more Sedaris

19. Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare, there just isn’t anything better

20. Austen or Eliot?
Austen

21. What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I stopped reading my first year of college. I’ve made up for it recently.

22. What is your favorite novel?
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

23. Play?
The Crucible. And by the Crucible, I mean Giles Cory.

24. Poem?
About the Author by my good friend Brittany (http://www.crayolawax.blogspot.com) it’s posted over there somewhere

25. Essay?
I read this amazing essay in my essay writing class, but I don’t remember who it was by or what it was about, but it was awesome.

26. Work of nonfiction?
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

27. Who is your favorite writer?
I’m going to say Maureen Johnson, because she is my girl crush

28. Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Well, there is this person that wrote some books about vampires.

29. What is your desert island book?
I’m going to admit that I’ve somehow never read a book about a desert island. I’m sorry

30. And... what are you reading right now?
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld and Hemmingway’s The
Sun Also Rises.