Saturday, June 13, 2009

Do You Read?

Rules: You have received this note because someone thinks you are probably a literary geek. Copy the questions into your own note, answer the questions, and tag any friends who would appreciate the quiz, including the person who sent you this.

1) What author do you own the most books by?
John Maxwell...i love his books and audiobooks...he's a motivator...25 Ways to Win With People...The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership...How Successful People Think

2.)What book do you own the most copies of?
Self improvement...business oriented books...Anthony Robbins...Napoleon Hill...Stephen Covey

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
not at all

4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Juliet...man she was down for nucka...i digs that...ride or die!!

5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Kenyatta's Escape - Donald Goines

6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
The Call of the Wild - Jack London...Buck was a "beast" ask Spitz...I still can read that book

7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
it was a hood book...my cousin showed me, i read 3 pages and put it down...it was poorly written...Donald Goines was "hood" but he was a "good writer" simple and plain...

8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Journey to Emerald City - Tom Smith...required to read by at my old company...really good book...talks about changing the culture of business...and our company's balance sheet being in the black was proof...real talk!!

9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Unlimited Power - Anthony Robbins...this book was the fork in the road for me

10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
Obama...dude is ill...his intelligence...clarity...a
nd clairvoyance...baffles me

11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki...so people can "see" the game...get out of the rat race!!!

12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
it don't even matter...because the books always better anyway

13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character
God asked me to speak to my generation...I been politicking...i need to answer the call...ee-meech-chut-lee

14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
The Source...it was good when i was teenager...but it sucks now...don't know if a magazine constitutes for a book

15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison...i had to really put on my thinking cap...once i got to chapter 3...it was smooth sailing...dude was the one line king...every page had a potential quotable...such wisdom from this book...

16) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare...Romeo and Julie...i know umma sap!!

17) Austen or Eliot?
Who???

18) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
prolly now..i aint read a book in 3 month, since i been home in PGH...but i read errday...starting with the cereal box...post gazette...to the ny times...

19) What is your favorite novel?
Monster Kody...that book gave me hope when i was running them streets...cereal spoon in one hand shotgun in the other...eating breakfast...str8 gangsta!!!!

20) Favorite Play?
Phantom of the Opera...FO SHO!!!

21) Short story?
the footprints in the sand...

22) Work of non-fiction?
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley

23) Poem or poet?
Langston Hughes

24) Who is your favorite writer?
John Maxwell