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1) The worst reading experience that you have ever had?
Probably the Ghormenghast books. I bought the set, tried several times to read it, and found it insufferable.
2) The best reading experience you have ever had?
I suppose a history book I once read which explained something to me I thought was inexplicable.
3) Which book has affected or influenced you the most so far?
War and Peace. Reading a book that large with so many characters followed so carefully throughout the story really broaden my ideas of what was possible in writing.
4) Have you ever read a book that you got really scared of?
Really scary books like Mein Kampf and such tend to be written so badly that it's easy to see it's not the books, but the people who read them eagerly that are scary.
5) What do you use as a bookmark?
Anything that's handy. A sales slip from the bookstore. Junk mail. Whatever.
)6) When do you usually read? At home, work, while cooking, in the morning, noon, afternoon, before you go to bed...?
Once upon a time, I read just about anytime, although never at work. Now if I try to read in the afternoon I'm likely to fall asleep.
7) Do you remember the first book that you read?
Likemidnightsjane it was the first of the Sally, Dick and Jane books. I could almost read before I started it. But, I couldn't puzzle out the first word, 'look.' After I asked my dad about that word I read the rest on my own without help.
8) Which do you prefer - paperback or hardcover?
Either. In my young and pretentious stage (as opposed to my current old and pretentious stage) I tried to buy mostly hardbacks for the display value. Since then I learned that people who are most likely to be impressed by a book collection are those that don't care to read much.
9) What are you currently reading? What page are you on?
Currently re-reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for a translation project. I'm reading at about page 30. The translation is back at about page 24.
10) Do you ever leave "a mark" (deliberate and/or not deliberate) in your books? For example, write in them, underline quotes, coffee marks or food crumbs and etc.
I used to think marking books was a mortal sin, but I think it becomes close to necessary in college. Now I will mark the margins, when I find especially good passages, make nasty comments when I find mistakes or particularly poor logic.
Also guilty of occasionally letting what I'm eating stain pages. ;o)
11) Does the title, amount of pages and the cover affect you when you are considering a specific book?
Not so much the title. Briefly in college I did discover that longer books published at that time tended to be a little better. But I think the publishers realized what was happening, and started publishing longer pot-boilers to make more money.
12) Do you ever browse through to the last pages in order find out the ending?
Only when I'm getting bored or if it's history/biography and I could easily look up what happened elsewhere.
13) Has knowing the ending of a book (example, through spoilers or a movie) ever made you decide whether you will read the book or not?
Knowing the whole story can influence me to read it, but just knowing the ending doesn't.
14) Is there a book that you have read more than five times?
Several
15) Have you ever been in an accident where the book was the cause? (for example, almost getting hit by a car when reading while walking, or having stacks of books falling on you from a bookshelf...)
Yes, I have had books fall on me from a shelf, both from my clumsiness and from the clumsiness of others.
16) Do you sell/give away your books or do you keep them, even though you don't like one of them?
Moving is good for the soul. It encourages you to pass on books you don't want any more or will never read. I will give books to people if they want them. I donate most of the rest. However, I trash books I can't stand. My little personal form of censorship, I guess. ;o)
17) Do you have some kind of book system, where you write down what you are reading, have bought, will read, will buy and etc?
I've always had a good memory for that sort of thing. Usually if I buy more than one copy of some book it's because I know I'm going to wear one out completely.
midnightsjane1) The worst reading experience that you have ever had?
Probably the Ghormenghast books. I bought the set, tried several times to read it, and found it insufferable.
2) The best reading experience you have ever had?
I suppose a history book I once read which explained something to me I thought was inexplicable.
3) Which book has affected or influenced you the most so far?
War and Peace. Reading a book that large with so many characters followed so carefully throughout the story really broaden my ideas of what was possible in writing.
4) Have you ever read a book that you got really scared of?
Really scary books like Mein Kampf and such tend to be written so badly that it's easy to see it's not the books, but the people who read them eagerly that are scary.
5) What do you use as a bookmark?
Anything that's handy. A sales slip from the bookstore. Junk mail. Whatever.
)6) When do you usually read? At home, work, while cooking, in the morning, noon, afternoon, before you go to bed...?
Once upon a time, I read just about anytime, although never at work. Now if I try to read in the afternoon I'm likely to fall asleep.
7) Do you remember the first book that you read?
Like
midnightsjane it was the first of the Sally, Dick and Jane books. I could almost read before I started it. But, I couldn't puzzle out the first word, 'look.' After I asked my dad about that word I read the rest on my own without help.8) Which do you prefer - paperback or hardcover?
Either. In my young and pretentious stage (as opposed to my current old and pretentious stage) I tried to buy mostly hardbacks for the display value. Since then I learned that people who are most likely to be impressed by a book collection are those that don't care to read much.
9) What are you currently reading? What page are you on?
Currently re-reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for a translation project. I'm reading at about page 30. The translation is back at about page 24.
10) Do you ever leave "a mark" (deliberate and/or not deliberate) in your books? For example, write in them, underline quotes, coffee marks or food crumbs and etc.
I used to think marking books was a mortal sin, but I think it becomes close to necessary in college. Now I will mark the margins, when I find especially good passages, make nasty comments when I find mistakes or particularly poor logic.
Also guilty of occasionally letting what I'm eating stain pages. ;o)
11) Does the title, amount of pages and the cover affect you when you are considering a specific book?
Not so much the title. Briefly in college I did discover that longer books published at that time tended to be a little better. But I think the publishers realized what was happening, and started publishing longer pot-boilers to make more money.
12) Do you ever browse through to the last pages in order find out the ending?
Only when I'm getting bored or if it's history/biography and I could easily look up what happened elsewhere.
13) Has knowing the ending of a book (example, through spoilers or a movie) ever made you decide whether you will read the book or not?
Knowing the whole story can influence me to read it, but just knowing the ending doesn't.
14) Is there a book that you have read more than five times?
Several
15) Have you ever been in an accident where the book was the cause? (for example, almost getting hit by a car when reading while walking, or having stacks of books falling on you from a bookshelf...)
Yes, I have had books fall on me from a shelf, both from my clumsiness and from the clumsiness of others.
16) Do you sell/give away your books or do you keep them, even though you don't like one of them?
Moving is good for the soul. It encourages you to pass on books you don't want any more or will never read. I will give books to people if they want them. I donate most of the rest. However, I trash books I can't stand. My little personal form of censorship, I guess. ;o)
17) Do you have some kind of book system, where you write down what you are reading, have bought, will read, will buy and etc?
I've always had a good memory for that sort of thing. Usually if I buy more than one copy of some book it's because I know I'm going to wear one out completely.
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