I stole this one from clockworkthug
1. One book that changed your life.
You Shall Know Our Velocity!, Dave Eggers

He’s just one of my favorite writers, period. He’s more commonly known for A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (which I love), but I hear more of myself in this book. Yes, because everyone knows that I am a Midwestern twenty-something who stumbled upon a large amount of cash and convinced a friend to travel the world with me in the course of a week, disposing of the money while still reeling from the tragic death of my best friend Jack.

The goal being: "Now I would get rid of it, or most of it, and believed purging would provide clarity, and that doing this in a quick global flurry would make it — I actually don't know why."

It’s hysterical/sad/inspiring/depressing and all those other contradictions crammed into around 300 pages.

2. One book you have read more than once.
The entire PREACHER series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon

Oh, come on, stop sneering. How can you not get alcoholic priests with the power of God, assassin ex-girlfriends, pop singers with faces resembling asses, religious conspiracies, regular imaginary conversations with John Wayne, psychotic grandmothers, abrupt and shocking violence, romance and love triangles involving vampire best-friends?

Barring all the blasphemy, of course.

3. One book you would want on a desert island.
The Beach, Alex Garland

It would just be fitting, wouldn’t it? Then again, I’d probably start craving marijuana stalks, fantasize about killing sharks, and pine for exotic French girls with thick accents.

Oh yeah, and fuck the movie.

4. One book that made you laugh
Microserfs, Douglas Coupland

I admit, I was a late bloomer. Pre-Microserfs, I used to read a lot of popular fiction; not because I was shallow, but largely because I was just hesitant to experiment. I was into a lot of (early) Crichton, Grisham and the like. Then one day, my friend forced a withered copy of Microserfs into my hands way back during my first year in Ateneo, all of 17, and I was floored. G33k! Hum()r! 1$! H1lar1()u$!

5. One book that made you cry

Here’s two:

Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson

A book I closely associate with childhood.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon.

A book I closely associate with being absurdly fantastic.

6. One book you wish had been written
The one that’s in my head.

7. One book you wish had never been written.
The Dark Knight Strikes Back!, Frank Miller

He’s brilliant, really. But this book is just fucking offensive.
“Here’s the sequel to one of the bestselling and most critically acclaimed books in your library, DC! Aren’t you excited? Now hold it for me while a take a humongous dump on my once amazing career.”

8. One book you are currently reading.
Black Powder War, Naomi Novik.

I’ve been on a recent Sci-Fi/Fantasy kick, and the Temeraire series has certainly been the best of what I’ve been reading recently. What a premise! It’s the Napoleonic wars, and everyone is fighting. With dragons.

Hellz yeah.

9. One book you have been meaning to read.
Children of God, Maria Doria Russel.

It’s the sequel to The Sparrow, a harrowing Philosophical study masquerading itself as a sci-fi novel; about contact with an alien race and its inevitable effects on personal faith.

Fin.