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SURVEY<\/a><\/strong>: Found randomly amid various Internet flotsam.<\/p>\n

1. Which book are you currently reading?<\/strong>
\n
JM DeMatteis\/Glenn Barr, Brooklyn Dreams<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And Lend Me Your Ears<\/em>, a collection of speeches edited by William Safire, but you really can\u2019t take that on the bus or in the bath, thus it\u2019s hard for the Book Ape to make progress here.<\/p>\n

2. What book did you read last?<\/strong>
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The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka<\/em>, tr. Joachim Neugroschel. \u201cIn the Penal Colony\u201d is the best by far. The short-shorts aren\u2019t nearly as hard-hitting or skewed as the ones in Parables and Paradoxes<\/em>, which I need to reread.<\/p>\n

3.What book are you planning on reading next?<\/strong>
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Quimby the Mouse<\/em>, that speeches book, and Plutarch\u2019s Lives <\/em>if I can find my copy. If I can\u2019t find my copy and get too lazy to schlep to the library, I\u2019ll probably read The Naked Civil Servant<\/em> to see how it\u2019s (\/I\u2019ve) aged. If I do schlep to the library, I\u2019ll probably forget about Plutarch and get sucked into reading The Book Against God<\/em>.<\/p>\n

4. Do you own most of the books you read, or do you borrow them from a library?<\/strong>
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Half and half except for comics, which you really can\u2019t find in the DC library system.<\/p>\n

5. Who was your favourite author when you were a child?<\/strong>
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Diana Wynne Jones for overall achievement; Peter S. Beagle for writing my absolute favorite childhood book, The Last Unicorn<\/em>.<\/p>\n

6. What were some of your favourite books when you were a child?<\/strong>
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Find them here<\/a>\u2026 plus Diana Wynne Jones and Michael de Larrabeiti. Oh and Helen Cresswell. Good grief, didn\u2019t I read any red-blooded Amurricans?<\/p>\n

7. Which literary character would you least like to be stranded on a desert island with and why?<\/strong>
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Hamlet! Talk talk talk! Or, even moreso, the kid from Call It Sleep<\/em>\u2013I\u2019d feel guilty just looking <\/em>at that boy.<\/p>\n

8. Which character would you most like to be stranded with?<\/strong>
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Adrian Healey maybe? That could get a bit tense, though. Let\u2019s go with Donald Trefusis instead.<\/a><\/p>\n

9. In which literary\/fictional location would you most like to live?<\/strong>
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Wow, there are just about no <\/em>books set in the parts of DC I love. Let\u2019s go with the pseudo-Savannah depicted in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil<\/em>.<\/p>\n

10. Which is the best TV\/film adaptation of a book you have seen? why?<\/strong>
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\u201cThe Last Unicorn.\u201d Script entirely from book, animation beautiful <\/em>and perfectly captures both the darker tones and the sweet humor of the book. And I grew up with the Journey songs so I don\u2019t mind them. <\/p>\n

I guess \u201cLion in Winter\u201d doesn\u2019t count because it\u2019s originally a play. \u201cGone With the Wind\u201d is also amazing, though not as good as the book.<\/p>\n

11. Which is worst TV\/film adaptation of a book you have seen? why?<\/strong>
\n
Again, \u201cTitus\u201d probably doesn\u2019t count (originally a play). And really, it does an excellent job of mimicking the absurdities of the original. (\u201cEnter Lavinia with her hands cut off, her tongue cut out, and ravished.\u201d)<\/p>\n

12. What film adaptation do you actually like more than the book?<\/strong>
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Hmmm\u2026 can\u2019t think of one off the top of my head.<\/p>\n

13. What book do you like better than the film adaptation?<\/strong>
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Ghost World<\/em><\/p>\n

14. What is your least favourite book and why?<\/strong>
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I doubt this is actually my least-favorite book, but I do remember loathing Silas Marner<\/em>. All that blonde symbolism. I also deeply resented having to read Things Fall Apart<\/em> not once but twice for class.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"