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3 books you use most often for reference
The MLA, fourth ed. (I guess that'll change now that I'm out of college...)
My Japanese electronic dictionary. Not technically a book, but very heavily used.
Rachel Pollack's Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. Does a tarot book count?
3 books you read on "high rotation"
The Ender series (once a year or so)
Robin McKinley, Deerskin (I think because it was around in Taiwan, while Beauty was in the States)
Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
Strangely, I can't think of any right now in particular. I'm used to reading all my books in high rotation because I couldn't get my hands on enough back in Taiwan. So everytime I went back there for summer or winter vacations, I'd just reread all the old favorites... I also tend to just read the "good parts" for a quick pick me up.
3 books you read for comfort
Anything by L.M Montgomery
Assorted Nora Roberts
Juliet Marillier, Child of the Prophecy
Also, anything I read as a kid: Patricia C. Wrede's Dealing with Dragons series, Susan Cooper, Madeleine L'Engle, etc.
3 books you really ought to read
James Joyce, Ulysses, out of sheer guilt. One should really read the most known work of an author one has written two papers on.
Shakespeare, King Lear
Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
I'm not good at classics. I play in my little genre corner most of the time.
3 books you will never read
James Joyce, Ulysses
Anything horror by Stephen King. Read a short once, scared me half to death. Never touching it again.
The Bible. Tried once, got a bit into Exodus, and then gave up. Did however read a bit more of the NT for my Christian origins class.
Everything else is mostly up for grabs.
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melymbrosia3 books you use most often for reference
The MLA, fourth ed. (I guess that'll change now that I'm out of college...)
My Japanese electronic dictionary. Not technically a book, but very heavily used.
Rachel Pollack's Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. Does a tarot book count?
3 books you read on "high rotation"
The Ender series (once a year or so)
Robin McKinley, Deerskin (I think because it was around in Taiwan, while Beauty was in the States)
Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
Strangely, I can't think of any right now in particular. I'm used to reading all my books in high rotation because I couldn't get my hands on enough back in Taiwan. So everytime I went back there for summer or winter vacations, I'd just reread all the old favorites... I also tend to just read the "good parts" for a quick pick me up.
3 books you read for comfort
Anything by L.M Montgomery
Assorted Nora Roberts
Juliet Marillier, Child of the Prophecy
Also, anything I read as a kid: Patricia C. Wrede's Dealing with Dragons series, Susan Cooper, Madeleine L'Engle, etc.
3 books you really ought to read
James Joyce, Ulysses, out of sheer guilt. One should really read the most known work of an author one has written two papers on.
Shakespeare, King Lear
Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
I'm not good at classics. I play in my little genre corner most of the time.
3 books you will never read
James Joyce, Ulysses
Anything horror by Stephen King. Read a short once, scared me half to death. Never touching it again.
The Bible. Tried once, got a bit into Exodus, and then gave up. Did however read a bit more of the NT for my Christian origins class.
Everything else is mostly up for grabs.
oohh
This has been floating around for a bit; I think it's funny to see the differences between people:
3 books you use most often for reference
For me or Ben? Almost none for me; primarily online.
3 books you read on "high rotation"
Almost never reread but authors I have: Brust, McKillip, Mcavoy, Dean, Kushner, GGK. It's because the combination of language and characterization is very hard to find.
3 books you read for comfort
See above and mix with Francis, Robt Parker, Crusie, LK Hamilton
3 books you really ought to read
I'm bad with the word ought! But my classical education was pretty hit or miss, since I was a Business student with an English minor.
3 books you will never read
Again, I wouldn't necessarily count anything out. But I'm not big into violence or horror. I get nightmares. And I actually did reread bits of the bible researching Angel last year... just goes to show!
This would be fun to do for movies?
Re: oohh
I've read bits and pieces of the bible, but I don't think I'm ever going to manage to get through the entire thing, especially parts like Deutoronomy... one of my roommates took a bible course and read the entire thing! I was quite in awe.