I realized M tagged me a couple of months back, and on my way back to regular writing, this should get me started.
One book that changed your life?
Hmm..books dont change my life, probably influence its course.Currently, The screenplay of Good Will Hunting by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck tops the list. I know it sounds a little queer, but I actually own a copy of this tale about this prodigy, working as a Janitor in MIT and his struggles with himself, his personal and professional relationships and eventually working through his problems.
An Excerpt from the actual transcript:
WILL: Do you play the piano?
SKYLAR: I wanna talk about this.
WIL: No, I'm tryin' to explain it to you. Do you play the piano?
SKYLAR: Yeah, a bit.
WILL: All right so when you--when you look at a piano you see Mozart.
SKYLAR: I see Chopsticks.
WILL: All right, well, Beethoven, okay, he looked at a piano and it just made sense to him. He could just play.
SKYLAR: So, what're you saying? You play the piano?
WILL: No. Not a lick. I mean, I look at a piano, I see a bunch'a keys, three pedals, and a box of wood. but Beethoven, Mozart, they saw it, they could just play. I couldn't paint you a picture, I probably can't hit the ball out of Fenway, and I can't play the piano.
SKYLAR: But you can do my O Chem paper in under an hour.
WILL: Right. Well, I mean, when it came to stuff like that I could always just play. That's the best I can explain it.
The Kite Runner of late has been an inspiring read as well.
2. One book you have read more than once?
Hmmm..the Kite Runner, Love Story, Catcher in the rye, the TinTin collections, the color of water, the diary of Anne Frank.
3. One book you would want on a desert island?
I'd probably want more than one here..Ayn Rand's works The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, my Calvin and Hobbes collection,
4. One book that made you cry?
None that I can think of..though the pursuit of happyness by Chris Gardner had its moments. I am planning to watch the movie this weekend..it stars Will Smith and his son Jaden.
5. One book that made you laugh?
Gods Debris, C n H obviously, Dave Barry's and some of Nick Hornby's works.
6. One book you wish had been written?
I am a big fan of stories being retold. I wish a lot of valued classics could be retold in current premises to accentuate their worth or obtain different dimensions of the fable.
7. One book you wish had never been written?
Some of these annoying British writing with cynics, drug addicts, omniscients, sexpots and the likes..reading which makes you more depressed than before.
8. One book you are currently reading?
Tsotsi, Harry Potter and the sorcerers Stone, the interpreter of maladies, deception point.
9. One book you have been meaning to read?
the remaining books in the Harry Potter series, Scott Adams's Way of the Weasel, Ponniyin Selvan, the works of James Herriot.
10. Tag five people.
Dont Bother..:)
