The book tag

Yaiy!! I have been tagged by lostonthestreet to do a tag about books. I am very impatient with questions, but I have tried. Also, I am big on books but not necessarily big on books with literary value. I read all sorts of books that I enjoy. Of late, I have developed an allergy towards pure fiction and books that overdose on big words fail to hold my interest any more. Like one of the recent books I read – You are here. It is a breezy, chick lit sort of book that I did read end to end. But I am done with my fair share of chick lit and entire books dedicated to crushes and breakups and boyfriends. Okay that’s all. Here’s the tag.

1) What author do you own the most books by?
Rohinton Mistry
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Freakonomics (I bought the second one just a few days after I bought the first one, cause I had forgotten about the first one by then)
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
None right now.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
The Dilbert Omnibus and my entire C&H collection. I am being honest here.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Guessing that it would’ve been Gijubhai Badheka ni balvartao series.
7) What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?
Eleven minutes and The Alchemist (and everything else by Paulo Coelho)
8) What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
Waiter rant: Confessions of a cynical waiter by Steve Dublanica. Also, Grains, greens and grated coconuts by Ammini Ramachandran. This year I have been ODing on good quality recipe books that provide cultural and historical context and not just plain recipes.
9) If you could force everyone to read one book, what would it be?
Any of the Calvin and Hobbes. Come on, it’s a book!
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
Rohinton Mistry
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
None. By the end of a good book, I usually have my own idea of how the characters walk, talk, look, smell like and the movie director’s view of the world is usually completely different from mine.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Read point 11.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
Don’t quite remember though I do get a lot of weird dreams where I transform into one of the characters or start living with them or something.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?
One night at the call centre by Chetan Bhagat. More recently, You are here by Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
15) What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
None after I graduated. Thank God for that!
16) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
None.
17) Austen or Eliot?
None.
18) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Oh lots. But I don’t even intend to read Shakespeare or anything that I am not going to enjoy but is supposed to be high quality literature just for the sake of it.
19) What is your favorite novel?
None.
20) Play?
It’s been really long since I read one actually. Recommendations anyone?
21) Short story?
Same as point 20.
22) Work of non-fiction?
To sir with love by E R Braithwaite. Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody.
23) Who is your favorite writer?
How many more times are you going to ask this? It is ROHINTON MISTRY, okay?

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