So Mr. Martel has tagged me to answer a few questions regarding my reading habits. Here we go, then.

1. One book that changed your life: I shall take the easy way out and say the Bible.

2. One book that you?ve read more than once: On the Road. Yes, in many ways it is antithetical to sorts of things I believe, but Kerouac’s writing, at least in spots, is beautiful.

3. One book you?d want on a desert island: Finnegan’s Wake. I might actually have the motivation to digest it, though without the proper resources, I’d likely miss a lot.

4. One book that made you laugh: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Update: I remembed that Fever Pitch made me chuckle as well, and was quite good.

5. One book that made you cry: The Town and the City, by Kerouac. His first novel, and quite different in style than everything else.

6. One book that you wish had been written: Errr. Ummm. Dunno, do I?

7. One book that you wish had never been written: Catcher in the Rye. Sorry, much like the whole Nirvana thing, I never got it.

8. One book you?re currently reading: Presence of the Kingdom by Ellul and Deschooling Society by Illich.

9. One book you?ve been meaning to read: Anarchy and Christianity by Ellul.

Posted on 15 August 2006