Books
Jason Kuznicki on Feb 22nd 2004
A friend on Live Journal passed me this questionnaire recently.
1.What’s your favorite book?
Right now it’s Island by Aldous Huxley.
2.What book made you laugh?
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. I read it while I was living in France with a bunch of people who were only just learning French, so many of the jokes hit home especially hard. There were times when I nearly threw up from laughing.
3.What was your favorite Required Reading book?
The Once and Future King, by T. H. White. It was a retelling of the Arthurian legends, written in the 1950s and making all kinds of references to the problems of modern life. It was thought-provoking but also tremendously funny, very sad at times, and altogether beautiful.
4.What was your least favorite Required Reading book?
Wuthering Heights was one of the dreariest and most appalling books I’ve ever read. It was like a soap opera, but minus most of the sex and violence.
5.What book bored you to death?
Member of the Wedding, by Carson McCullers. I was told by someone for whom I have great respect that I absolutely must read this book, and that I would love it. Unfortunately I didn’t.
6.What book do you think everyone should read before they die?
I don’t think that there is any one book everyone should read before they die. There are so many different points of view out there that just one book isn’t going to speak to everyone. I would suggest, though, that everyone should be forced to read the sacred texts of a religion that is not their own. I think it would do a lot to broaden people’s horizons and encourage mutual respect.
I also think that everyone in the world should buy a copy of my dissertation. It’s ok if they don’t read it.
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