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womzillaA book quiz, via various vectors (primarily ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nellorat and rysmiel):
What are...
Answers behind Door Number Three.
For reference:
Paper:
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (with John Higgins on slide trombone)
The Chicago Manual of Style, current edition
The Standard Catalog of Comic Books, by the editors of the Comic Buyer's Guide.
Electronic:
Merriam-Webster Online
The Locus Index of Science Fiction and William Contento's Index of Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
Bible Gateway (a great source of multiple Bible translations)
Re-reading on high rotation:
Fiction:
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner, though it's been a while
For comfort:
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Entire runs of comic strip collections--my favorite comfort re-reading. Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau, Foxtrot by Bill Amend, Dilbert by Scott Adams are the three I dive into most.
The Oz novels of L. Frank Baum
Ought to read:
Fiction:
Perdido Street Station and/or The Scar by China Mieville
The Science Fiction Century, David Hartwell, editor
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Non-fiction:
The First World War and The Second World War by John Keegan
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus volumes 2-4 by John Meier
Non-prose:
The Collected Krazy Kat by George Herriman (eleven volumes and counting)
The Complete Pogo by Walt Kelly (eleven volumes and counting)
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Books I will never read:
Fiction:
Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
Left Behind by LeHaye and Jenkins
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
Non-fiction:
Das Kapital by Karl Marx and George Engles
Treason by Ann Coulter (feel free to substitute "Anything by Regnary Press" here, or a long list of similar putative non-fiction)
A Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Non-prose:
Henry the VI by William Shakespeare
The Dark Knight Strikes Back by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley
The Cantos by Ezra Pound
nellorat and rysmiel):What are...
- 3 books you use most often for reference
- 3 books you read on "high rotation"
- 3 books you read for comfort
- 3 books you really ought to read
- 3 books you will never read
Answers behind Door Number Three.
For reference:
Paper:
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (with John Higgins on slide trombone)
The Chicago Manual of Style, current edition
The Standard Catalog of Comic Books, by the editors of the Comic Buyer's Guide.
Electronic:
Merriam-Webster Online
The Locus Index of Science Fiction and William Contento's Index of Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
Bible Gateway (a great source of multiple Bible translations)
Re-reading on high rotation:
Fiction:
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner, though it's been a while
For comfort:
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Entire runs of comic strip collections--my favorite comfort re-reading. Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau, Foxtrot by Bill Amend, Dilbert by Scott Adams are the three I dive into most.
The Oz novels of L. Frank Baum
Ought to read:
Fiction:
Perdido Street Station and/or The Scar by China Mieville
The Science Fiction Century, David Hartwell, editor
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Non-fiction:
The First World War and The Second World War by John Keegan
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus volumes 2-4 by John Meier
Non-prose:
The Collected Krazy Kat by George Herriman (eleven volumes and counting)
The Complete Pogo by Walt Kelly (eleven volumes and counting)
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Books I will never read:
Fiction:
Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
Left Behind by LeHaye and Jenkins
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
Non-fiction:
Das Kapital by Karl Marx and George Engles
Treason by Ann Coulter (feel free to substitute "Anything by Regnary Press" here, or a long list of similar putative non-fiction)
A Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Non-prose:
Henry the VI by William Shakespeare
The Dark Knight Strikes Back by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley
The Cantos by Ezra Pound
