Friday Five (hereafter known as the “Saturday Five”)
1. What is your favourite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc)?
Books, of course. Since when do magazines and newspapers count as “literature”? Anyway, poetry is OK in small doses, but I’m sometimes turned off by the fact that roughly 90% of it is pure wank.
2. What is your favourite novel?
Hmm… don’t you DARE make me choose just one. Ulysses (but you have to be in just the right mood), Catch 22, The Caine Mutiny, 1984, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. That’ll do for a reasonable short list. If I invest too much thought into the question then I could go on for another page.
3. Do you have a favourite poem? (Share it!)
Probably Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning, mostly due to the fact that it’s simultanously beautiful and just plain evil. Find it if you’re interested, it’s pretty long so I won’t transcribe it here.
4. What is one thing you’ve always wanted to read, or wish you had more time to read?
I dunno, if I want to read something then I get it and read it. One of the Edoefits of being a book snob I suppose, my “to read” list remains relatively short.
5. What are you currently reading?
Nothing right now. I finished Ulysses again this morning. Gotta switch back to textbook mode when Uni restarts in a few days, so no more fiction for a while.
