Book survey

[BomberGal]

Just nabbed this from somewhere else...answer away, children!

1) One Book that made you read it more than once:

2) One book you would want on a desert island:

3) One book that made you laugh:

4) One book that made you cry:

5) One book that made you wish you had written:

6) One book that made you wish it had never been written:

7) One book you are currently reading:

8) One book you have been meaning to read:

9) One book that changed your life:

 

[BomberGal]

1) One Book that made you read it more than once: Memoirs of Cleopatra - Margaret George

2) One book you would want on a desert island: Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

3) One book that made you laugh:Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

4) One book that made you cry: One True Thing - Anna Quindlen

5) One book you wish you had written: Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (may I cheat and throw in To Kill A Mockingbird as well)

6) One book that made you wish it had never been written: Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

7) One book you are currently reading: Dead Famous - Ben Elton

8) One book you have been meaning to read: well, my list is currently at 150 books. But to pick one...let's say the first I see on my shelf...Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

9) One book that changed your life: Maestro - Peter Goldsworthy

 

[bradrowe#32]

1) One Book that made you read it more than once:
Dead Air by Iain Banks.
It gets really mixed reviews, but I just love the story and the characters.

2) One book you would want on a desert island:
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.

3) One book that made you laugh:
Any of the Flashman series, anything by Matt Beaumont or Douglas Copeland.

4) One book that made you cry:
The Book Thief.

5) One book that made you wish you had written:
Fury by Salman Rushdie.

6) One book that made you wish it had never been written:
Anything by Matthew Reilly. Can't stand that boring, over-rated, predictable s**t.

7) One book you are currently reading:
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. He is a brilliant author and portrays the heartbreaking story very well.

8) One book you have been meaning to read:
Crime and Punishment.

9) One book that changed your life:
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.

 

[Bomber Bears]

1) One Book that made you read it more than once: I read 45+47 Stella Street alot when i was a kid, read most books i have read more than once

2) One book you would want on a desert island: The Vincibles - Gideon Haigh

3) One book that made you laugh: A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson

4) One book that made you cry: Marley and Me - John Grogan

5) One book that made you wish you had written: High Society - Ben Elton

6) One book that made you wish it had never been written: Neuromancer

7) One book you are currently reading: Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby

8) One book you have been meaning to read: To Kill A Mockingbird (again, great book)

9) One book that changed your life: Harry Potter ha

 

[cmontommyalvin]

1) One Book that made you read it more than once:
Steppenwolf
2) One book you would want on a desert island:
Tao te ching
3) One book that made you laugh:
The Rum Diary
4) One book that made you cry:
The Sorrows of Young Werther (tears of joy)
5) One book that made you wish you had written:
The Idiot
6) One book that made you wish it had never been written:
Millenium People
7) One book you are currently reading:
Don Quixote
8) One book you have been meaning to read:
1984

9) One book that changed your life
Revolutionary Psychology

 

[Claude Balls]

1) One Book that made you read it more than once: The Lord of the Rings

2) One book you would want on a desert island: War & Peace... haven't read it, and at 1300 pages, it would last the longest on a desert island.

3) One book that made you laugh: Animal Farm - George Orwell

4) One book that made you cry: The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy

5) One book that made you wish you had written: The Inheritors - William Golding

6) One book that made you wish it had never been written: Neuromancer.. it well and truly manced my neuro. The Sound and the Fury was fairly diabolical as well.

7) One book you are currently reading: The Drowned World - J. G. Ballard

8) One book you have been meaning to read: The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy ...I just never get around to it.

9) One book that changed your life: Cities of the Plain - Cormac McCarthy... in the sense that it reignited my love of reading several years ago, after a long hiatus.

 

[Dixie Flatline]

1) One Book that made you read it more than once:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

2) One book you would want on a desert island:

The Boy Scout Manual - to figure out how to get off the bloody island!

3) One book that made you laugh:

Bill the Galactic Hero.

4) One book that made you cry:

N/A - books don't make me cry.

5) One book that made you wish you had written:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

6) One book that made you wish it had never been written:

War and Peace

7) One book you are currently reading:

Fallen Dragon - Peter F. Hamilton

8) One book you have been meaning to read:

Spook Country - William Gibson.

9) One book that changed your life:

N/A - I don't read books to change my life.

 

[TheSuper6of06]

1) One Book that made you read it more than once:
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
2) One book you would want on a desert island:
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
3) One book that made you laugh:
Yes Man - Danny Wallace
4) One book that made you cry:
Not cry. Unexpectedly moving though. A Separate Peace - John Knowles
5) One book that made you wish you had written:
The importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
6) One book that made you wish it had never been written:
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
7) One book you are currently reading:
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
8) One book you have been meaning to read:
The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
9) One book that changed your life:
Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally,
Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut

 

[raskolnikov]

I could have answered Crime and Punishment to most of these but to add some variety have used others.

1) One Book that made you read it more than once:

Crime and Punishment

2) One book you would want on a desert island:

The Brothers Karamazov - only because it's longer than C&P

3) One book that made you laugh:

The Thurber Carnival, not laugh out loud funny but very amusing and thought provoking at the same time

4) One book that made you cry:

Man is Wolf to Man - I cried at man's inhumanity to man

5) One book that made you wish you had written:

The Name of the Rose - Eco is a genius

6) One book that made you wish it had never been written:

Atlas Shrugged - what a load of pretentious crap

7) One book you are currently reading:

Dickens - biography of Charles Dickens

8) One book you have been meaning to read:

Bleak House - the only book of Dickens that I haven't read. Have tried a few times but for some reason just can't get into this one.

9) One book that changed your life:

The Poisonwood Bible

 

[stimpy]

I could have answered Crime and Punishment to most of these but to add some variety have used others.

1) One Book that made you read it more than once:

Crime and Punishment

really? I'm struggling to finish it, i'm not saying it isn't great and i don't like the read, i just find it hard, honest work.

 

[raskolnikov]

really? I'm struggling to finish it, i'm not saying it isn't great and i don't like the read, i just find it hard, honest work.

I've read it seven times. I wrote my thesis on it so I needed to read it a few times for that alone but even now I try and read it every couple of years.

 

[Bosun]

1) One Book that made you read it more than once:

Jurassic Park: I was in my teens and not really "into" reading and just loved it, I read it once a year


2) One book you would want on a desert island:

Lord of the Rings: I enjoy it and its long enough to last a while

3) One book that made you laugh:

Drew Careys "Dirty Jokes and Beer", a funny yarn.

4) One book that made you cry:

I cant think of one that has right now

5) One book that made you wish you had written:

Marching Powder.

6) One book that made you wish it had never been written:

It was one by Matthew Reilly, Ice Station I think, bloody horrible, it doesnt flow and reads like a C grade movie script.

7) One book you are currently reading:

Prey, MC just died and I have this on the shelf so I thought Id give it a flick

8) One book you have been meaning to read:

Nightfall and Cryptozoic

9) One book that changed your life:

Not sure if one has

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

1) One Book that made you read it more than once: 1984 - George Orwell

2) One book you would want on a desert island: The latest version of the Information Please Almanack (sounds weird, but it just offers so much)

3) One book that made you laugh: A Zoo in My Luggage - Gerald Durrell

4) One book that made you cry: The Catcher in the Rye (it made me sad, but just fell short of making me cry)

5) One book that made you wish you had written: The Crucible (not really a book, but a written work nonetheless)

6) One book that made you wish it had never been written: All the Harry Potters

7) One book you are currently reading: The Drunken Forest - Gerald Durrell

8) One book you have been meaning to read: The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

9) One book that changed your life: The Blindwatchmaker - Richard Dawkins

 

[Valentino Dmitri]

i take it you aren't allowed to pick the same book for 2 questions? my post would be pretty boring if i did that... more boring, anyway

1) One Book that made you read it more than once:

American Gods by Neil Gaiman - First time got very caught up in the story, second time to read the literary sleight of hand, a bunch of other times just for the fun of it

2) One book you would want on a desert island:

Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy - It's like 900 pages, and since I am a slow reader it is too intimidating for me. Been sitting on my bookshelf for years. A desert island would give me the incentive to have a crack at it

3) One book that made you laugh:

J-Pod by Douglas Coupland - appealed to my geekiness

4) One book that made you cry:

i don't believe it's happened

5) One book that made you wish you had written:

Sandman by Neil Gaiman - It pissed me off because I know that no matter what I do in my life, it will never be anywhere near as genius as this

6) One book that made you wish it had never been written:

Hulk Hogans autobiography - You would think that the story of a household name superstar who lived the high life in the 80's would have been halfway interesting. Also the ghostwriter was s**t.

7) One book you are currently reading:

Trigger Happy by Steven Poole

8) One book you have been meaning to read:

Catch 22

9) One book that changed your life:

Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett, cos it was my first taste of the Discworld, and it blew my 14 year old mind, especially compared to the geeky(ier) fantasy i'd been previously reading

 

[jaxxon]

8) One book you have been meaning to read:

Catch 22

Great book, I've read it a couple of times.

 

[Valentino Dmitri]

Great book, I've read it a couple of times.

Awesome

I got the book from the library, just waiting to finish my other one first. Should be fun!

 

[WALDENPOND]

1) One Book that made you read it more than once:
The Outsider-Albert Camus.
2) One book you would want on a desert island:
Walden-Henry David Thoreau.
3) One book that made you laugh:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas-Hunter S Thompson.
4) One book that made you cry:
Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck.
5) One book that made you wish you had written:
The Name of the Rose-Umberto Eco.
6) One book that made you wish it had never been written:
All books have their place.
7) One book you are currently reading:
Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy.
8) One book you have been meaning to read:
The Old Man and the Sea-Ernest Hemingway.
9) One book that changed your life:
All the Pretty Horses-Cormac McCarthy

 

[bombermick]

Just nabbed this from somewhere else...answer away, children!

1) One Book that made you read it more than once: A Fraction of the Whole

2) One book you would want on a desert island: Also A Fraction of the Whole. If I only have one book then a door-stopper that is funny and serious is a good choice.

3) One book that made you laugh: Running with Scissors

4) One book that made you cry: The Green Mile

5) One book that made you wish you had written: Slaughterhouse Five

6) One book that made you wish it had never been written: Any recent Dan Brown book

7) One book you are currently reading: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

8) One book you have been meaning to read: 1984

9) One book that changed your life:

Paul Jennings got me on the reading path and showed me it's okay to be wacky.

 

[Partridge]

Just nabbed this from somewhere else...answer away, children!

1) One Book that made you read it more than once:
The Calendar - David Ewing Duncan

2) One book you would want on a desert island:
Last Place on Earth - Roland Huntford

3) One book that made you laugh:
Carrying the Fire - Michael Collins

4) One book that made you cry:
N/A

5) One book that made you wish you had written it:
How the Mind Works - Steven Pinker

6) One book that made you wish it had never been written:
Any woo-woo book.

7) One book you are currently reading:
The Sleepwalkers - Christopher Clark

8) One book you have been meaning to read:
Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan

9) One book that changed your life:
Peter the Great - Robert Massie

 

[Palmer Stoat]

1) One Book that made you read it more than once:
The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner.

2) One book you would want on a desert island:
What the Crow Said, Kroetsch

3) One book that made you laugh:
Water Music, TC Boyle

4) One book that made you cry:
Don't know if I actually shed a tear, but I was probably blinking really fast: The Crossing, McCarthy

5) One book that made you wish you had written:
The Blind Assassin, Atwood

6) One book that made you wish it had never been written:
Tristam Shandy, Sterne

7) One book you are currently reading:
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway (just finished)

8) One book you have been meaning to read:
The Secret History, Tartt

9) One book that changed your life:
Probably one of the fantasy novels I read as a kid. Stephen Donaldson or Tolkien.