Hayley G's Book meme

Just a quick thing here that I put way to much thought and effort into but still it's a different sort of meme then the what's your favorite color variety so it was worth it.

1. What author do you own the most books by?
Either Meg Cabot or Caroline B. Cooney (They're too spread out around the house to try and count them all right now.)

2. What book do you own the most copies of?
I think it's a tie between Freak the Mighy and Max the Mighty because I had copies then I lost them so I bought new ones and then I think my dad has a couple copies each somewhere in the house. Plus I inherited copies from my Granddad when he died.

3. Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Not in the least.

4. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
eh not a secret really although I don't think anyone's ever bothered to ask before. Jesse from the Mediator series by Meg Cabot, Fred and George Weasley although more Fred becuase I think he had more personality, Lani Garver from the book "What Happened to Lani Garver" because I have a thing for androgony, Jarrod from "Old Magic" by Marrianne Curley (yeah there are some movie fictional characters too but I'm sticking to the paper variety)

5. What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?
Probably Old Magic by Marianne Curley, I don't know why I love that book so much but I do.

6. What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Any book by Caroline Keene a.k.a. any Nancy Drew book I LOVED them, I think at the time my favorite one was number 13. I can't remember what that one's called but I know it has something to do with an elephant and an indian circus type boy.

7. What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Either a book called "Imaginary Enemy" by Julie Gonzalez or "Unlocking the Doors" by Nicole Liuken both were random pick ups and both were not good, one was really stupid and the other could have been good if it wasn't predictable and badly written.

8. What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Oh man you can't ask me to pick just one I've read a lot of good books in the past year like for example I read Old Magic and as I've already mentioned I love that book. (The rest of the list is just in the order I read them not in the order I liked them but I can't decide on just one book sorry.) (Oh yeah also my memory isn't really that good I've just been keeping track of how many books I've read in the past year.)So Lets see I also really really liked Paper Towns which obviously I loved, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, Larry and the Meaning of life by Janet Tashjian, Who Killed Amanda Palmer by Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer (I know that's a coffee table book technically but it's a really good book), also I'm rereading the Harry Potter books right now and as we all know those are awesome.

9. If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
I wouldn't because when someone is forced to read a book chances are they won't like it. I know I wouldn't like it just on principal and I wouldn't want people to hate something that I love.

10. What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Wicked by Gregory Maguire but I want it to end like the musical becuase I hate unhappy endings and the director has to be on their game becuase I don't want to see books torn apart and ruined because hollywood couldn't leave well enough alone. (Seriously hollywood why change plot points or character traits just for the sake of change? I will never understand this. I know things have to change to fit the medium, I get that, I too went to film school the things I'm talking about are arbitrary and silly things to change but they mean a lot to the people who will be paying at the box office and I don't understand why you insist on alienating them.) (Have I mentioned that I have strong opinions on that and eventually will get around to doing a full post on that soon enough.)

11. What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
I don't know. I love the idea of having something of my favorite books that I can watch anytime I want to with actual people filling the images that would otherwise be trapped in my head and also allows me to do other things so I'm not just sitting reading all the time. On the other hand I hate the idea of hollywood crapping on something that is so important to me.

12. Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I don't know. I know I had something with John Green in it at least once and Harry Potter and Twilight tend to get in there sometimes I think but I don't often remember my dreams and even then when I do unless they were really weird or I wrote them down somewhere I tend to forget them after about a day. The only one I can remember right now had a bunch of people who may or may not have been people I "know" but I can't remember, my ex boyfriend Adam, and Bill Paxton in it. Obviously no one there is literary unless some one in the bunch of people was but like I said I don't remember.

13. What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
lowbrow? I don't quite understand that. The only books I really count as lowbrow are romances and I don't read those. everything else I think is totally valid. Actually I think all books are valid for the people reading them. Like I don't read Anime or Manga or whatever but they still take time and effort to read so they are just as valid as The Great Gatsby or Pride and Prejudice. What I think I mean to say there was that I don't thik anything I've read is lowbrow because I don't think there are actually lowbrow books because it's a matter of perspective...did that make sense?

14. What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Again hard question mainly because I think I'n putting too much thought into this, but if you want the obvious answer I'll go with Hear of Darkness because 1 it was boring and 2 I didn't understand it. Let me point out I fully have the capabilities of understanding it I just didn't bother to try, I was being forced to read it in high school and I didn't like the teacher because she kept making us compare EVERYTHING we read to the current political situations (in 2003/4) and like I said earlier I don't like it when I'm forced to read things. so I read the words but I never bothered to properly process them besides that's hard to do while also trying to figure out what "The horror the horror" has to do with the 2004 preliminary election.

15. What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
I've barely seen a Shakespeare play performed let alone an obscure one.

16. Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
French, I've had enough experience with the Russians to learn to avoid them if I can.

17. Roth or Updike?
I don't know, I've read a lot but not much that people would consider worthwhile. I've been meaning to do more "grown up reading" but I read more for fun then anything else so forgive me if it takes me awhile to get around to the heavier stuff.

18. David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Again not there yet. Let me finish Harry Potter and the other books I have lined up. Then I plan or reading Oscar Wilde then maybe I'll get to it. Give me time and be glad I've heard of these people.

19. Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare. I've liked him since before I knew who he was at the age of 5 so I'm not counting that as a cop out I'm counting it as dedication.

20. Austen or Eliot?
Um neither, sorry.

21. What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I haven't read a lot of the "grown up" books that everyone else has read. The one I get the most crap for is I've never read 1984 which I guess is one of those high school requirements or whatever but I never had to read it and when I tried I fell asleep, on several different attempts. I'm pretty well read in young adult novels but people don't tend to put a lot of stock into those so they think I don't read. I need to catch up so that I can go back to reading what I want but still be able to discuss the more societally acceptable books for a person of my age to have read.

22. What is your favorite novel?
Old Magic by Marianne Curley or Framed in Fire by David Patneaude

23. Play?
Romeo and Juliet (see my Shakespeare answer for explination.)

24. Poem?
Not really into poems sorry.

25. Essay?
Do blogs count for that?

26. Work of nonfiction?
I've only recently started reading biographies so my knowledge here is limited to books about Kevin Smith, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Rapp, or a few other people but they aren't as worth mentioning.

27. Who is your favorite writer?
You can't ask me that. It's like asking me to pick my favorite book and as we saw I couldn't even pick a favorite from the past year.

28. Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Dan Brown. I don't get all the Hype about the DaVinci Code and whatnot the movie was alright sort of like the non disney version of National Treasure. I haven't bothered with the book yet...maybe one day when I'm really bored.

29. What is your desert island book?
Old Magic or Framed in Fire by David Patneaude (you have no idea how hard it is not to put down a list of about fifty books.)

30. And... what are you reading right now?
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I'm rereading the whole series at the moment. After that I'm going to read Evolutions Darling by Scott westerfeld becuase the library found it for me a lot quicker then I thought they would and now it's due back relatively soon.