The first Booksnakes Questionnaire
(These were the questions I sent out a few weeks ago. PLEASE fill these in, if you would like to, and email them to booksnakess@gmail.com! Please note the hissy double s in the address.
Here is an answer I got last night:
- Which author would you like to be friends with?
“Edith Wharton if she weren’t such a reputed bitch. I think the fact that I can’t think of one reflects badly on me, and not on writers as a group.”)
Below, the questions!
- Do you read books over and over?
- If yes, which books?
- Who is your favourite heroine of fiction?
- Why?
- Who is your favourite hero of fiction?
- Why?
- Do you have any books that you would unhesitatingly recommend? Which ones?
- What is a book that you would recommend to a teenage boy?
- Teenage girl? It doesn’t matter if they don’t like reading. Let’s say that they get locked into a room until they’ve finished it.
- Have you ever had a book pressed on you that you cannot believe anyone thought you would like? For example, I have been told to read Murakami by at least ten different people, because they believe that I would love it, and they are sorely mistaken about that.
- Do you think it’s possible for a book to change a person’s life?
- Has a book ever made you cry? Which book?
- Have you abandoned books? Which ones?
- Do you have a list in your head of books where if someone says (x) is their favourite, you think less of that person? Not only “they are possibly not as smart as I thought”, but also “they are possibly evil”?
- Which author would you like to be friends with?
- Which author would you never like to meet?
- Which author do you feel certain would personally dislike you?
- Do you like it when a novel goes on and on about what people eat? Which is your favourite example of this type?
- Do you like it when a novel goes on and on about what people wear? Which is your favourite example of this type?
- What are you currently reading?
