Another Book Meme
Courtesy of Bart
A book that made you cry: The Railway Children by E. Nesbit ( Well the film always makes me blub like a baby)
A book that scared you: Don’t read scary books much, but The Woman in Black by Susan Hill is pretty spooky
A book that made you laugh: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

A book that disgusted you: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
A book you loved in elementary school: Any of the Famous Five Books by Enid Blyton

A book you loved in middle school: The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier

A book you loved in high school: Emma by Jane Austen
A book you hated in high school:
Can’t remember
A book you loved in college: Narziss und Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
A book that challenged your identity: not sure what this means, but The Bible is the book that has actually changed my life
A series that you love: Patrick O’Brian
Your favorite horror book:
Don’t do Horror
Your favorite science fiction book: The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Your favorite fantasy: Tolkein of course!
Your favorite mystery: The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
Your favorite biography: Don’t read much biography but I did like Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
Your favorite “coming of age” book: eh? [ETA - Oh I see; a book about someone growing up? - In that case:
The "Scenes From..... "Trilogy by William Cooper ]
Your favorite classic: Middlemarch by George Eliot
Your favorite romance book: Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers (I cannot be the only woman on this planet who fancies the pants off Lord Peter Wimsey!)
Also A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Your favorite book not on this list: The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War by Jaroslav Hasek














zenny Said,
September 29, 2007 @ 6:42 pm
To find more about Svejk, visit SvejkCentral. There is also a new English translation.