a beer-swilling, uneducated barbarian does the book meme. (Hi, Mom!)

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--Hardback or paperback?
Paperback, for I am a little girl with spindly wrists, a life of penury, and limited bookshelf space. MMPB, even if I love you and like to give you hugs.

--Highlight or underline?
box and brackets and "ROFL! OMG U N00b" scribbled in the margins in pencil. okay, I'm kidding about the OMG U N00b but I do possess a book that has ROFL! in the marginalia. (amber K - CovenCraft)

--Lewis or Tolkien?
in a cage match vs. the magician's nephew and the hobbit, the magicians nephew wins, but if you get the whole narnia series in there then the hobbit wins. no, i don't know why. hobbits is tough like that.

--E.B. White or A.A. Milne?
who?

--T.S. Eliot or e.e. cummings?
Yes!

--Stephen King or Dean Koontz?
No!

--Barnes & Noble or Borders?
No!

--Waldenbooks or B. Dalton?
No! you're commiting the Americanist Heresy here. we don't have these bookstores in Soviet Canuckistan, comrade. we have appearance of healthy competition and enterprise with Chapters and Indigo and Coles and WH Smithbooks, that are all owned by the same company. Is pravda!

--Fantasy or science fiction?
Yes, but SF.

--Horror or suspense?
Naw.

--Bookmark or dogear?
Lose my page on me and you die, sucka.

-Hemingway or Faulkner?
No. now if the question were Roberston Davies or Michael Ondaatje (they called it the americanist heresy, and yet it still happens) then I would have to answer with - Pierre Berton.

Come on! The Secret Land of Og? it's the rules. Og! Og og og og!

--Fitzgerald or Steinbeck?
Fitzgerald.

--Homer or Plato?
Catullus. but I wouldn't date him because all poets are queer.

--Geoffrey Chaucer or Edmund Spenser?
Chaucer.

--Pen or pencil?
Pen.

--Looseleaf or notepad?
Spiral bound notebook with extra thick cardboard back, so I can write while there is no desk.

--Alphabetize?
Yes. and then by series title, and by chronological order of publication. I should catalogue, but i'm too lazy.

--Dustjacket: on or off?
No hardcovers. but if I have one, off. and then prmptly replaced!

--Novella or epic?
Novella

--John Grisham or Scott Turow?
Stop it, you're hurting me.

--J.K. Rowling or Lemony Snicket?
we'll compare those movies when the time comes.

--John Irving or John Updike?
No.

--Fiction or non-fiction?
Fiction

--Historical biography or historical romance?
Biography.

--A few pages per sitting or finish at least a chapter?
a four hundred page book is sacked like Alexandria in five hours or less, puny mortal.

--Short story or creative non-fiction essay?
Short story.

--"It was a dark and stormy night" or "Once upon a time"?
"One night, AZhrarhn Prince of Demons, one of the Lords of Darkness, took upon him, for amusement, the shape of a great black Eagle.

--Buy or borrow?
Buy. mine, alllll mine!

er, comrade.

--Book reviews or word of mouth?
with the crowd I run in, word of mouth is a book review that turns into a critical discussion of the art of story.