Found via … carmon friedrich’s blog … sherry before that … ORIGINAL LOCATION: http://www.thinklings.org/index.php?p=1333&more=1&c=1 — go straight to the source for the cleanest copy! 🙂
I’ve fitted my version out with li and /li and br so that each line of the “quiz” is bulleted, any responses I have are right under that line beginning with a “–“. A pain to do, but worth it for readings sake. Thank me! 🙂
Did I obey the “rules”? Don’t things so, all the way, though I did try!
EITHER/OR Literary Edition
Same rules as always: Choose one or the other, no “both”s. No “neither”s unless you have no information about either option. Feel free to provide whatever reasons, explanations, or defenses you believe pertinent.
- Hardback or Paperback
–hardback since it offers whitespace that paperbacks mostly toss out [but I do like those big format “softbacks”].- Highlight or Underline
–highlight, my desire, not usually done; handwrite into a notebook if highly interesting- Lewis or Tolkien
- E.B. White or A.A. Milne
- T.S. Eliot or e.e. cummings
–no applicable knowledge nor preference- Stephen King or Dean Koontz
— I recall reading THE STAND years ago and loving it, grain of salt- Barnes & Noble or Borders
— B&N or Books-A-Million, great browsing, coffee, cookies … 🙂- Waldenbooks or B. Dalton
— we don’t go to these, too small, crowed, ugh.- Fantasy or Science Fiction –
– Fantastical Sci-Fi, I can’t separate them so I say that, though choose Fantasy — as in fairy tales (don’t have to have fairies in them, usually don’t).- Horror or Suspense
- Bookmark or Dogear
–never bend a book! Nearly anything can be a bookmark too!- Large Print or Fine Print
–Large it is, but not TOO LARGE. This is a sub-set of Hard or Paper Back above. My eye sees ink sitting up high, so I like bigger print. See pen or pencil for my choice, which sits the highest and is eye candy, makes it easy to read. Computer screen isn’t so loverly to read much on therefore. That’s why i like word graphics … lacking on this site though, hmm.- Hemingway or Faulkner
— tie, it’s been too long since read either- Fitzgerald or Steinbeck
–It’s been a long time since, but remember Stein well enough.- Homer or Plato
–Safe to say I haven’t really formed an opinion, nor read much of either?- Geoffrey Chaucer or Edmund Spenser
— Chaucer, as in A Knights Tale? 😉 No clue otherwise- Pen or Pencil
— gel, gel, gel, gel pen, baby! Colors too!- Looseleaf or Notepad
— spiral bindings are my love, I classify them as “looseleaf” for some reason. Love writing on thick paper below. I’ve LOTS of spiral bound books to write in, as well as composition books, which I like second best. Pads of paper, last in line.- Alphabetize: By Author or By Title
- Shelve: By Genre/Subject or All Books Together
- Dustjacket: Leave it On or Take it Off
- Novella or Epic
— thick books! Yum!- John Grisham or Scott Turrow
— I’ve only read Grisham, DH has read both, I’ll ask him later- J.K. Rowling or Lemony Snicket
–This isn’t a High Opinion, just that I’ve read some of that in B&N and did enjoy it to the extent of my reading it, but not much. I started in the beginning.- John Irving or John Updike
–No opinion- Salman Rushdie or Don Delillo
–No opinion- Fiction or Non-fiction
–I read much non-fiction though, for info mostly- Historical Biography or Historical Romance
–Like if the story is romantic some, that’s not a romance though 🙂- Reading Pace: A Few Pages per Sitting or Finish at Least a Chapter
–This is a better choice for me now, though when younger it was “read a WHOLE BOOK in one sitting”- Short Story or Creative Non-fiction Essay
- Blah Blah Blah or Yada Yada Yada
- “It was a dark and stormy night…†or “Once upon a time…â€
–There are those Fairy Tales! Fantasies!- Books: Buy or Borrow
— prefer buy for loved books. Don’t have the $ to practise that though.- Book Reviews or Word of Mouth
— and by the eye in the stores
I’ll get the rest of my education in the next few years. I’ve read a lot, but not the “classics” much, it seems.