The Great Literary Questionaire Cometh

Dear Readers,

I'm re-blogging this Questionaire off of Gail Carriger's site, being that it pertained to me and My interests. What follows is a Genre book interview with myself. Should you find yourself interested in sharing things about yourselves, please feel free to comment, and add your own questions and opinions as well. As always, I love to hear from you, being a personable and social being. The books I listed below are clickable, and will redirect you to the amazon page, should you be inclined to wonder.

Regards, Mithy

The Inqueries...

• Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror? Science Fiction when its clever, Fantasy when its more like a fairy tale and only old school horror. I don't like this new fangled serial killer stuff...
  
• Hardback or Trade Paperback or Mass Market Paperback or eBook? Trade paper back, or mass market if it has a cover i like. Ebooks are fun, but I can't lend them out or put them on my shelf.
  
• Heinlein or Asimov? Asimov. no question. Heinlein is a right-wing nut
  
• Hitchhiker or Discworld? Hitchhiker. Not a Pratchet fan. I find Adams much wonderfully clever.
  
• Bookmark or Dogear? Dogear. even with library books. I do try and use post-its as bookmarks, but i always lose them. Its like I need a whole pad of post-its for one book.
  
• Magazine: Asimov's Science Fiction or Fantasy & Science Fiction? Asimov's SF&F. I went to a convention a few years back and bought probably 60 vintage copies of the magazine, rode home with them on my bike, too, in a feat that was more than amazing. I love the art and the ads and the short stories.
  
• Alphabetize by author, Alphabetize by title, or random? I dont alphabetize. I put them together by author but they aren't alphabetized by author. They are like little non-sequitous clumps of goodness.
  
• Keep, Throw Away, or Sell? Keep. I cant give up my books, its a curse!
  
• Short story or novel? Novels. However, I can only right short stories. odd.
  
• Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket? Lemony Snicket. But i have a prefference for his wierd stuff as opposed to the series of unfortunate events. He is just wierd enough to keep me guessing.
• Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks? Chapter breaks. or i just keep going.
  
• Buy or Borrow? Borrow. The library is my favorite place in the whole world. The librarians on the other hand... yikes.
  
• Borrowing choice: Book Reviews, Recommendation, or Browse? Are you ready for this? I go on amazon, look at what i want, go to the library, request it from the different branches, order 30 ish books and then go pick them up with my duffel.
• Lewis or Tolkien? Neither. Lewis is a religious freak and Tolkein writes primarily for men.
  
• Hard SF or Space Opera? Space Opera. what do you think star wars is?
  
• Collection or Anthology? Neither. I can't stand any of them.
  
• Hugo or Nebula? Hugo. thank you very much
  
• Tidy ending or cliffhanger? Tidy ending. I cant deal with the unknown.
  
• Morning reading, Afternoon reading or Nighttime reading? all of the above
  
• Standalone or Series? I'm gonna agree with Gail on this. If the series is small, im perfectly fine. But I do love my stand alones
  
• Urban fantasy or high fantasy? Um. My fantasy tastes are picky. my boyfriend loves the Jordan stuff, and he swears by dragons and such, but the whole Pern thing never caught on with me. I dont like classic fantasy. I do like new age fantasy (fool on the hill) , or classic-ish fantasy written in a clever way (Hercules Barefoot) . elsewise its just boring.
  
• Favorite book of which nobody else has heard? Matt Ruff's Set This House in Order. hands down
• Top 3 favorite books read within the last few years? hmmm... Geek Love By Katherine Dunn; Souless by Gail Carriger and Sewer Gas and Electric by Matt Ruff.
• Top 5 favorite books of all time? Beach Music By Pat Conroy, Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff. Graveyard for Lunatics by Ray Bradbury. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baronesss Orczy and Hercules Barefoot by Carl-johan Vallgren.

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