[MEME] That ten-question book meme

[rfmcdonald]

james_nicoll tagged me. Who am I to disagree?

1. One book that changed your life?

Geoff Ryman's The Child Garden, easily.

2. One book you have read more than once?

John Barnes' Thousand Cultures novels are just some of the books I've repeatedly re-read. Why wouldn't I re-read books I like?

3. One book you would want on a desert island?

After james_nicoll, The New Way Things Work would probably be a good text if I am, in fact, stranded on a desert island. If I'm a tourist certainly to spend only a short period of time on a hospitable island, then I'll pick Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days.

4. One book that made you laugh?

In an evil way? Diane Duane's mirror-universe Star Trek: The Next Generation novel Dark Mirror. Mirror-universe Troi makes for an interesting secret policewoman.

5. One book that made you cry?

Paul Monette's Borrowed Time.

6. One book you wish had been written?

Chaucer's complete Canterbury Tales.

7. One book you wish had never had been written?

The Turner Diaries.

8. One book you are currently reading?

Colm Toíbín's The Blackwater Lightship- Books.

9. One book you have been meaning to read?

Again, Michael Cunningham's Specimin Days.

10. Now tag five people.

Keeping in mind that this tagging by no means must be picked up, I tag agirlnamedluna, bitterlawngnome, ladyfelicity, sandor_baci, and vorpal.