Maybe not, but I guess I'm part of the blogosphere, because this book meme was passed to me by Alexandra:
You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
I'd like to be flip and answer The Cat in the Hat, especially in Latin, but I'd probably go for The Canterbury Tales. Maybe just the Prologue, which weighs in at approximately 800 lines...
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Ooh, Dagny Taggart, of course: I just know she had to look like Raquel Welch. Well...a real, honest to God crush? I'm not sure.
The last book you bought is:
New? The Passion of Ayn Rand's Critics, by James Valliant. Used? A boxful.
The last book you read:
Do you mean actually finished? It was probably High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way.
What are you currently reading?
As if I'm reading one book (I do tend to dip in and out of, ahem, a few books at a time). Being Direct, by Lester Wunderman (the guy who brought you the Columbia Record Club and the American Express card), Getting Things Done, by David Allen, and Anton Chekhov's Short Stories. And an old, out of print Mickey Spillane: Me, Hood.
Five books you would take to a deserted island:
THIS IS EASY!!
1. The complete works of Victor Hugo, in French.
2. Charles Duff's French For Beginners.
3. R. de Roussy de Sales, Easy French Reader.
4. Wallace Fowlie (editor), French Stories (dual language).
5. Anne Hooper and Stephanie Farrow, Ultimate Sex.
Uhh...okay, so assuming I won't be stranded with French actress Julie Delpy (damn the rotten luck), here's the real list:
1. Some sort of complete William Shakespeare: I haven't read all of the plays, nor have I read all of the sonnets. Explanatory footnotes would be nice.
2. Human Action, Ludwig von Mises.
3. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand.
4. The Penguin History of the World, J.M. Roberts.
5. Forbidden Pictures of Julie Delpy, in six volumesThe Chambers Book of Araucaria Crosswords
Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons)? And Why?
1. Charles G. Hill: I enjoy his takes on American popular music and I wonder what else he reads about.
2. Diana Hsieh: Have to wonder what an Objectivist grad student has time to read!
3. Ian Hamet: Curious to find out whether or not he's finished his first edition of Fowler's Modern English Usage.