The Written Word is a Wonderful Thing
Well, I was visiting the lovely Toddled Dredge and saw a meme that I couldn’t pass up. I have never done a meme, so I have no idea if I’m following protocol, but here goes:
1. One book that changed your life: Animal Farm by Orson Welles. Because without this book, I would have had no idea that animals could so cruelly mistreat and brainwash one another to unlimited degrees. That’s exactly why we should continue to support the meat industry. Allegory? What’s that?
2. One book that you’ve read more than once: The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. I don’t really like the movie, but the book is total horrid fascination.
3. One book you would want on a desert island: The complete comedies of William Shakespeare. Perhaps you think I should go for something more thought provoking, but frankly, if I’m all alone on a desert island, the last thing I’m going to want to ponder is life, the universe, and everything—I AM ALL ALONE ON AN ISLAND. I’m pretty sure my answer would be life sucks, the universe is rotten, and everything is against me. I’d rather have things to laugh about.
4. One book that made you laugh: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. Those people know how to throw a mad, swingin’ party, yo.
5. One book that made you cry: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. The problem is, I don’t know if I was crying at what we’ve done or what I’m not doing now.
6. One book that you wish had been written: The Greatest Novel of Our Time by Me. I’d settle for A Novel by Me.
7. One book that you wish had never been written: It’s a toss up between Scarlett, the Sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind and Babywise. Probably Babywise, because nobody ever took Scarlett seriously.
8. The book that you are currently reading: Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman. Fooking hi-larious. Stop what you’re doing and go buy it and read it. No, I’m serious. Do it.
9. One book that you have been meaning to read: What are you doing still reading this????? I just told you to stop! Go read Killing Yourself to Live. Chuck! Chuck! Chuck!
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Dark. Very dark. And very, very funny.
HEY! You’re funny! I’m doing some book nonsense on my blog, too. Let’s be friends.
(This is the part where you check out my blog to make sure I’m not psycho.)
I think shakespeare would be a great thing to take if you are on a deserted island. Although, I’d take the complete works. I already have it. So I could just pack it in my desert island suitcase and bring it along. It would take days and days to read it all.
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Animal Farm is by George Orwell, not Orson Welles!!!