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answers to book meme
For there is obviousely noone out there who wants to guess / knows the answers of the book meme:
1. - "Ash Wednesday" by Ethan Hawke - J. asked me some time ago if there's any book I'd love to make a movie of... when she asked me I couldn't answer, because the books I'd have loved to make a movie of ARE movies (The Lord of the Rings; Harry Potter; The mists of Avalon;...) - but then I took that book out of my shelves (I bought it years ago and somehow never read it) and fell in love with the book during the first 50 pages. At page 65 I told her that this is THE book. And it still is, now that I've finished reading.
3. - "Tortilla Curtain" by T.C. Boyle - I read this one while being at school, probably one of the few good things I got from my english-lessons ;) I quite liked it and I'll never forget all the Freudian slips we had while discussing that book. I think there's nobody of my old class who didn't call the book "Tequilla Curtain" at least one time ;)
4. - "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde - well... it's a classic somehow, isn't it?! And maybe one of the books that got me into slash-stories.
6. - "Angels" by Marian Keyes - one of my lucky pulls regarding books. I bought it just because there's been some sales promotion of buying 5 books and paying only hals of the price; I liked the cover so I put it into my book-stack and it's a wonderful, wonderful book with some really wonderful scenes and I copied out a whole lot of wonderful quotes.
8. - "'Tis" by Frank McCourt - the sequel to "Angelas Ashes" and as wonderful als the first book.
9. - "Faust I" by Goethe - well it's a classic, isn't it? I particulary love the famous first monologue of Faust (I HAVE, alas! Philosophy, / Medicine, Jurisprudence too, / And to my cost Theology, / With ardent labour, studied through. / And here I stand, with all my lore, / Poor fool, no wiser than before. / Magister, doctor styled, indeed, / Already these ten years I lead, / Up, down, across, and to and fro, / My pupils by the nose,--and learn, / That we in truth can nothing know! /...... )
10. - "Hogfather" by Terry Pratchett - I can't say this is my favourite Pratchett, but it's the one I'm reading at the moment, so I chose it as a substitution for all the wonderful "Discworld"-books I've read so far.
1. - "Ash Wednesday" by Ethan Hawke - J. asked me some time ago if there's any book I'd love to make a movie of... when she asked me I couldn't answer, because the books I'd have loved to make a movie of ARE movies (The Lord of the Rings; Harry Potter; The mists of Avalon;...) - but then I took that book out of my shelves (I bought it years ago and somehow never read it) and fell in love with the book during the first 50 pages. At page 65 I told her that this is THE book. And it still is, now that I've finished reading.
3. - "Tortilla Curtain" by T.C. Boyle - I read this one while being at school, probably one of the few good things I got from my english-lessons ;) I quite liked it and I'll never forget all the Freudian slips we had while discussing that book. I think there's nobody of my old class who didn't call the book "Tequilla Curtain" at least one time ;)
4. - "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde - well... it's a classic somehow, isn't it?! And maybe one of the books that got me into slash-stories.
6. - "Angels" by Marian Keyes - one of my lucky pulls regarding books. I bought it just because there's been some sales promotion of buying 5 books and paying only hals of the price; I liked the cover so I put it into my book-stack and it's a wonderful, wonderful book with some really wonderful scenes and I copied out a whole lot of wonderful quotes.
8. - "'Tis" by Frank McCourt - the sequel to "Angelas Ashes" and as wonderful als the first book.
9. - "Faust I" by Goethe - well it's a classic, isn't it? I particulary love the famous first monologue of Faust (I HAVE, alas! Philosophy, / Medicine, Jurisprudence too, / And to my cost Theology, / With ardent labour, studied through. / And here I stand, with all my lore, / Poor fool, no wiser than before. / Magister, doctor styled, indeed, / Already these ten years I lead, / Up, down, across, and to and fro, / My pupils by the nose,--and learn, / That we in truth can nothing know! /...... )
10. - "Hogfather" by Terry Pratchett - I can't say this is my favourite Pratchett, but it's the one I'm reading at the moment, so I chose it as a substitution for all the wonderful "Discworld"-books I've read so far.