The Reading Meme
Time for a meme! (Pinched from Kailana, Chris, Maree and Book Zombie.)
1. What author do you own the most books by?
At the moment, JK Rowling. I own a complete set of UK hardbacks and books 1-6 in US paperback and the 3 companion books… (and some audiobooks…)
Previously (until I had a massive clear out) this would have been easily held by Terry Pratchett in the 30-40 area!
2. What book do you own the most copies of?
Burning for Revenge by John Marsden (1 signed hardback (a bookmooch surprise the signed bit anyway!), 1 paperback and the audiobook)
3. Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Huh? Have you read my blog?
4. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
A gentleman never tells tales! 
5. What book have you read the most times in your life?
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
6. What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Stig of the Dump
7. What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?
The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee
8. What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
TheGraveyardBookNationisLookingforAlaska… You really expect me to be able to choose?
9. If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
10. Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
Terry Pratchett
11. What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, I enjoyed the BBC adaption, but it’d be nice to see a version with more than £3.50 spent on it! 
12. What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Breaking Dawn the movie is just going to be soooooo bad, I’m cringing now! (Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t mind the book, but…)
13. Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
Erm… Can’t say I have.
14. What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?
(I’m just going to copy Chris’ answer for this one!) I don’t like this question so I’m not going to answer it :p
15. What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier, I hated the thing, and had to read it for school.
16. Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Not read enough of either to comment.
17. Roth or Updike?
Not Read Either
18. David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Not Read Either
19. Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shockingly not read any of their works
20. Austen or Eliot?
Not Read Either
21. What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
See answers 17 thru’ 20
22. What is your favorite novel?
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman or Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
23. Play?
The History Boys by Alan Bennett
24. Short story?
How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neil Gaiman
25. Epic Poem?
…
26. Short(er) poem?
Leisure by W.H. Davies
27. Work of non-fiction?
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
28. Who is your favorite writer?
Terry Pratchett
29. Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Dan Brown
30. What is your desert island book?
TheGraveyardBookNationisLookingforAlaska…
31. And … what are you reading right now?
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
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omg, totally cannot believe I forgot Dan Brown for most overrated author! Considering my vents on him (especially with the new movie coming out) you would think he was on my mind! And, you know, I must say I am quite shocked you have somehow managed to never read Shakespeare… How did you manage that? I wish I could manage that! If the question had said dead overrated author, it so would’ve been him! I am off to look up this Douglas Adams book that I have never heard of before!
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I’m sad that you think Shakespeare is overrated
lol!!
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Oh yes, we had to read Chocolate War too – uggh I think I hate it because it gets so much attention as being so amazing, I can’t see it myself. It was boring and completely predictable.
I’m amazed that you’ve not read Shakespeare – we had to at least one thing by Will every year at school. Gotta love required reading
Kailana took the words right out of my mouth – “omg, totally cannot believe I forgot Dan Brown” – Seriously DaVinci Code was just brain-numbing. It just occurred to me that the public reaction to Dan Brown and Stephenie Meyer were eerily similar.
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I have to agree with your answer to 29…wish I would’ve thought of that :p I have this bloody (my attempt at British slang :p) copy of The DaVinci code that I’ve yet to part with because I paid so much for it…I thought that it would be cool to get the expensive one with all of the pictures of the artwork and didn’t even get half way through it…hated that book. I need to just have it begone!
Totally agree with you on Neverwhere…I’d love to see it made into a movie. I liked the BBC version of it too, but it would make such a fantastic movie. It screams “make me into a movie.” I did hear on Neil’s blog that there’s talk of an Anansi Boys movie! That would be cool.
And I learned something new about you! I didn’t know that Pratchett was your favorite author!
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I read Last Chance to See … years ago, and loved it. I see Stephen Fry is making an updated version with Adams’ co-author. In fact, they came here …
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/761030
Interesting answers, by the way
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Yeah, I’ve been following Fry’s Twitter feed as he’s been traveling.
I have a little something for you on my blog. You can pick it up here.
Ooh, thanks!
This meme has something like twice the amount of questions the one I did (It’s the same just abbreviated. You can tell by how the questions are the same, apart from the ones left out. ^-~). You’ve never read Shakespeare? I too want to know how you managed that! (Okay, so I’m doing an English degree.)
For something slightly more related, you’ll be happy to know I have no desire or intention to come near Dan Brown’s works. (Although that’s not so much about love or hate as that I have zero interest in the genre he writes in.)
Very fun to read your answers to this one! Although I think you should reveal your literary character loves!!!
I too would love to see Neverwhere get the big budget treatment…but from a studio that would respect the work better than they did with Stardust. Someone with the love for the material like the people who made Coraline. It is one of my absolute favorite books and although I do enjoy the BBC version, it is a film with so much visual excitement that it would be great to see on screen.
How to Talk to Girls at Parties is an interesting story. I only thought it was so-so the first time I read it, but later when I listened to the audio version of Fragile Things and heard Neil Gaiman read it I was blown away by it. Fantastic!
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that Neverwhere was such compulsive viewing I think is a huge credit to Gaimans writing, I think #3.50 might be overstating the budget and some of the actors where fab, but some of them not so much. Overall I loved it though.