Bookworming
At the risk of turning this place into LiveJournal Jr., I'm going to tackle one more meme by special request of The Cartoonist. This one has to do with my reading habits which are admittedly eclectic, albeit rather trashy:
1) You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451; which book do you want to be?
Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf, by David Madsen because it's so perverted even I wanted to burn it.
2) Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Ha! Wouldn't you like to know? Actually, I think I had a crush on the character of Esme Lauterbach from Max Schulman's, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (upon which the wacky television show was based). I could totally relate to being a little guy trying to win the heart of a 6-foot tall woman (my first girlfriend was 5' 11").
3) What are you currently reading?
I always have 2-3 books in a perpetually half-finished state. Right now, I'm malingering over The Medieval Reader, by Norman F. Cantor and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf. They're just too high-falutin' for me, I guess.
4) The last book you bought was: Eyeing the Flash, by Peter Fenton
5) The last book you read was: The Golden Transcendence, by John C. Wright
6) Five books you would take to a desert island:
Well, if I'm gonna be stuck on an island, I better take along a couple of appropriate cookbooks, so I'd pick Hawai'i Tropical Rum Drinks and Cuisine, by Don the Beachcomber, and Trader Vic's Pacific Island Cookbook, of course. Hopefully, I'd get to bring a case of Havana Club Rum too. I'd also take something by Tim Powers, because his books are always entertaining, if a bit formulaic, and Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon, because it's the ultimate in celebrity sleaze. Finally, England's Dreaming by Jon Savage sounds like a good read.
7) Who are you going to pass this stick to, and why?
Wot, is this the blogospheric equivalent of the dreaded chain letter? Unlike some people I could name(Ralf), I'd never be so cruel as to dump this in the lap of some poor, unsuspecting soul like say, Sean, Jaime, or Lili. No, I'd never do anything like that.