Book meme - stolen from The Madness

[maggies_lens]

1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
A Little Golden Book about The Pound Puppies.... ROCK ON THE 80's!!!!!!

2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next?
Last: New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
Current: Those Faraday Girls - Monica McInerney
Next: not sure, probably Eclipse by Meyer

3. What book did everyone like and you hated?
Wuthering Heights or however the hell you spell it, god I HATED that book!!!!!

4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t?
No book is safe....

5. Which book are you saving for “retirement?”
When it comes to books, I don't wait

6. Last page: read it first or wait til the end?
Wait til the end.

7. Acknowledgments: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
Depends

8. Which book character would you switch places with?
Anyone who's a Herald of Valdemar, or a Dragonrider of Pern... bonus points to anyone who knows what the hell I just said :-D

9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?
You really want me to write out my mental thesis here....?

10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
I once found a massive, thick, heavy book left on the top of a ticket machine at Abbotsford station as I was going to work. It was a HUGE thick book about buildings and art in Venice. It was from a TAFE library and I called them once I was at work, almost killed me carrying it that far. Got their mailing address and sent it back to them but not before I devoured it, I was working as a receptionist at the Pharmacy Collage, a job I loathed with all my heart. I was sooooo miserable there but that book filled all 8 hours with beauty and a whole new world I never imagined existed. I got a beautiful thank you letter from the TAFE and only found out later the book was worth a few hundred $$$!!!!

11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
A few yeah

12. Which book has been with you to the most places?
Ummmm. I think Twilight, that followed me to most Strike Team events this fire season.

13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?
God..... I think out of all the crap they forced on  me to try and squash my love of reading, Sylvia Plath's crud was the absolute worst bunch of cat vomit I ever had to deal with. God god GOD I hate that woman. By the end I WANTED her to kill herself!!!!! Now I just want to make sure i never ever see anything of hers again; the homicidal rage has faded with time ;-)

14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
Photo of someone's kiddy playing on a swing set... in a swing-music history book :-D

15. Used or brand new?
I don't mind. I love the smell of old books and the feel that someone has shared this adventure before, but then again I loooove being the first to open a brand new book.

16. What was the last book you bought?
I honestly can't remember

17. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
Frustrating SOB, his only saving grace was The Stand.

18. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
I don't think so, not that I can remember. Maybe X-Men because the comic was a bit boring.

19. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
Anything I have ever liked :-).

20. Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?
My workmates Terri and Christine; they love the exact same stuff as me. Melissa has also put me on to a few good ones..