Friday Five, Bookworms!

[kyrielle]

thefridayfive this time :)

1. What is the one book that you reread over and over again?

One? ONE?? Er, right.... I reread lots of Lackey, especially the Arrows series; I also tend to reread Tamora Pierce a lot, because her books are easy to gulp down, as it were.

2. What is your favourite genre?

Fantasy.

3. Do you usually buy your books or visit the library?

Yes. I usually visit the library, read their books, then buy the ones I want to reread (or think I want to reread).

4. Who is your favourite author?

I'm not sure. I'm not sure I can claim just one author. Tamora Pierce would be in the running, certainly; but then there's also Anne Bishop. Or Sharon Olds, who writes poetry, which I really cannot compare to fantasy (whether Pierce's light young adult or Bishop's darker, deeper works). I suspect my favorite author is mostly tied to what sorts of things I've been reading recently, as well....

5. What book have you read that you absolutely hated?

Hmmm. It's actually hard to get me to hate a book, and the fastest way to do so has nothing to do with the book and everything to do with the people around me - badger me and tell me I "should" like it when I don't. That will turn mere lack of interest into hate. This happened with Zelazny's work - I don't care for his writing style, but I was pushed and told I should like him and picked on for not liking him, so I forced myself to read more and ended up hating it. That doesn't really count, though - for all that I hated his work for quite a while, it was not because of it, though I don't think I ever would have learned to like it.

I'll go with Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant books. It's been so long I can't even remember what little I absorbed of the first one, but I do remember wanting to smack his hero around. I read for fun, that was not fun. But even that I don't hate now - how can I? I don't remember it well enough. I won't be foolish enough to pick it up again either, though. There's always too much to read and not enough time to read it in anyway, no sense in adding things you once disliked to the list.

I deliberately avoid all possible nonfiction examples. But yes, there have been some. If you read on politics or religion, you cannot help but end up with one that makes you seethe sooner or later, I suspect. (And technical books on computers have a bad habit of resembling the other two topics, at times - even when they aren't officially addressing the usual definitions of either of them.)