Books (borrowed from another blog)
September 6th, 2007, 9:27 am · Post a Comment · posted by fsherman
•A book that made you cry: The Incredible Journey. Lost pets, what can I say?
•A book that scared you: Ramsey Campbell’s horror novel, The Incarnate
•A book that made you laugh: Fish Preferred by PG Wodehouse; Time Trap by Keith Laumer (a classic comic SF).
•A book that disgusted you: Any romance novel that tries to convince me rape is sexy.
•A book you loved in elementary school: Any of the Jennings books, British school stories by Anthony Buckeridge.
•A book you loved in middle school: Dragonflight, by Anne McCaffrey.
•A book you loved in high school: The Last Unicorn.
•A book you hated in high school: The Great Gatsby. It’s grown on me since.
•A book you loved in college: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, by
Stephen R. Donaldson.
•A book that challenged your identity: I’m not sure one has, but the short story “You’re All Alone,” by Fritz Leiber (which assumes almost everyone in the world is a kind of automaton) would have done it if I’d read it a few years younger than I did (I mean—how could I prove it wasn’t true?).
•A series that you love: Doc Savage, Elric, John Carter of Mars, the Cenotaph Road. To name four.
•Your favorite horror book: HP Lovecraft’s collected work.
•Your favorite science fiction book: Hard to pick, but I’ll go with Earth by David Brin. Brilliant piece of near future SF.
•Your favorite fantasy book: Last Call by Tim Powers. A quest for the Holy Grail set in Las Vegas. Marvellous.
•Your favorite mystery book: The collected Sherlock Holmes. It’s surprising how often I quote them to myself.
•Your favorite biography: Tarzan Alive by Philip Jose Farmer. The mock biography of the “real” person Burroughs based the Tarzan legend on. Other Powers, a biography of 19th-century presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull, is probably the best true biography.
•Your favorite “coming-of-age” book: The Prydain books by Lloyd Alexander. Chronicles a young farm boy’s growth from a kid dreaming of heroism to a man tackling the real thing.
•Your favorite book not on this list: Any of Stephen Jay Gould’s science histories, Keep Watching the Skies by Bill Warren, Alice in Wonderland, Tarzan of the Apes, Superfolks
