{"id":82,"date":"2006-08-18T22:30:41","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T05:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/18\/one-book-meme\/"},"modified":"2006-08-19T14:01:32","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T21:01:32","slug":"one-book-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/one-book-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"One Book meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jennifer<\/a> tagged me for this a couple of weeks ago, and I missed it. But then I found it, so here you go.<\/p>\n

1. One book that changed your life:<\/strong>
\nHow do people answer questions like this? I have no idea…I don’t think any book has ever changed my life so obviously that I could say “that book, right there, made me who I am” or anything like that. They just work more gradually than that, and not really as individual books. Maybe if someone could explain how this question is supposed to be approached, I could make a better attempt at it…<\/p>\n

2. One book that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read more than once:<\/strong>
\nThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/a><\/i> by C.S. Lewis. I would put all the Narnia books on, but I have read this one the most. Largely because I’ll start to read the series, then get stuck in Prince Caspian<\/i> because I don’t care for it much. Sometimes I just skip Caspian<\/i>, but I keep thinking that if I read it enough, one of these times I’ll like it.<\/p>\n

3. One book you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d want on a desert island:<\/strong>
\nThe complete set of Norton Anthologies<\/a>. Heh. I’m not really getting the gist of this “one book” thing, am I? How about…The Riverside Shakespeare<\/a>? It’s one volume! And should keep me busy for a while.<\/p>\n

4. One book that made you laugh:<\/strong>
\nI’m tempted to say Digital Fortress<\/a><\/i> by Dan Brown, just because I mocked it so hard<\/a> all the way through, but I don’t think that’s what the question intends. Anything by P.G. Wodehouse<\/a> gets the good kind of laughs.<\/p>\n

5. One book that made you cry:<\/strong>
\nCatch-22<\/a> made me cry, and laugh as well. But the laughs were expected. The tears weren’t, so those scenes that made me cry are the ones burned into my memory.<\/p>\n

6. One book that you wish had been written:<\/strong>
\nPlayacting in Shakespeare<\/i>. Would’ve been very helpful when writing a paper on the topic for Shakespeare class a few years ago. The paper still turned out okay, once I acknowledged that I couldn’t find ANY sources, and the professor let me base it on close reading rather than research, but still. Somebody has to have written this book, somewhere.<\/p>\n

7. One book that you wish had never been written:<\/strong>
\nOoh, tough tough tough. Sounds dangerously close to book-burning, and I’m not about that. But I think Mein Kampf<\/a><\/i> is probably a good bet. The world could’ve easily done without Nazism, WWII, the Holocaust, and the remaining vestiges of Neo-Nazism. So, yeah, I’ll go with that.<\/p>\n

8. One book you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re currently reading:<\/strong>
\nThe Brothers Karamazov<\/a><\/i> by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I’ve heard a couple of people say they’re having difficulty getting through Crime and Punishment<\/a><\/i>, but I zoomed through C&P<\/i> compared to Karamazov<\/i>. It’s good, but it’s…dense.<\/p>\n

9. One book you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been meaning to read:<\/strong>
\nJust one? Um. A.S. Byatt’s Possession<\/a><\/i>. Mark<\/a> has been after me to read it for a few months now, and I keep putting it off, even though I’m dying to read it. Delayed gratification and all that rot, you know. Really, though, I could’ve chosen any of some 150 books I own and haven’t read (y’all know I cannot pass up book fairs and used bookstores).<\/p>\n

I think just about everyone in this blog’s circle has done it, so I won’t tag specific people…if you want to do it, please do! I’ll go pick on some Livejournal people for it, though…haven’t seen it make the rounds there yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jennifer tagged me for this a couple of weeks ago, and I missed it. But then I found it, so here you go. 1. One book that changed your life: How do people answer questions like this? 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