saving it for a new subtitle

here's one of those stupid blog questionnaires. meh.

1. One book that changed your life
I don't really have a good answer for this. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams.

2. One book you've read more than once.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, also by Douglas Adams. How lame. Ooh, I have a good one! From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg.

3. One book you would probably want on a desert island.
I might actually read past the first few chapters of Gödel, Escher, Bach if I had it on a desert island. It occurs to me that nobody ever gives what should be the obvious answer to this question, which is something pornographic.

4. One book that made you laugh.
Note in the margin on page 118 of my copy of The C Programming Language: "i laughed aloud at that. god i'm sad."

5. One book that made you cry.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.

6. One book you wish had been written.
The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams

7. One book you wish had never been written.
Mein Kampf.

8. One book you are currently reading.
Downtown by Pete Hamill.

9. One book you have been meaning to read.
The number one on this list for me is The Power Broker, a biography of Robert Moses. But it is just so long, so very very long.