RIF - Reading Is Fundamental

[First of all, I found my phone! Yay. Second...Hi, I'm Huntington, and I'm still a financial fuckup. (Hiiiii, Huntington!) ]

[Never mind. There's a ninety-year-old bartender in New York City who says the best advice he can give is not to worry about money. Instead, I will pick up on a meme propogated by this fine fellow...]

Book that changed your life. Probably the Oz books. They were the first series that captured my imagination, that took me someplace else and made me see that stories could do that.

One book you have read more than once. Ah, jeez...most books that I've read, I've reread. My favorite old friends to which I return again and again include Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire; everything by Alan Hollinghurst; several by Douglas Coupland; Tales of the City...

One book on a desert island. There's no way to choose. May I have the internet instead?

One book that made you laugh. Most recently, probably White Teeth, which was also very sad. Zadie Smith can present a ludicrous combination of characters and plot and make them make them hilarious or tragic at will.]

One book that made you cry.
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland. Family, unfulfilled potential, senseless tragedy...all my faves.

One book you wish you had written. I'm gonna have to agree with Jeffrey and say The Hours. Books like that make me feel this close to being able to do it, too. Michael Cunningham almost takes me by the hand, ask me what the next word, sentence, plot twist or whatever should be, and either seems to follow that advice, or surprises me in a way that seems inevitable in retrospect. I'm not explaining that well; reading my favorite writers is like having one of those almost-psychic conversations with a close friend. I feel complicit in their brilliance. The Hours is also a perfect example of a writer making what is really hard look easy.]

One book you wish had never been written. I think the world could've done without The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, don't you?

One book you are currently reading. Argh, I'm actually between books right now. I finished A Passage To India a week ago, and am still blown away. I'll start a new one soon.

One book you have been meaning to read. There are too many. I want to delve in the classic Russians, Dickens...the 19th century has a particular allure right now.

Now tag five people�
Jhames, John H., Max, Chriso, and Mulhersinha, currently not online, but I'd still like to know.

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