Time-Wasting Book Quiz

Maggie says:
This was passed along to me by Erik Loomis. Apparently it's quite blog-worthy lately. It's full of pretention and abstraction – my favorite!

If you were stuck inside Farenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Of course! I'm into Holden Caulfield's innocent cynicism, Raskolnikov's tragic seriousness, and Pedro Tercero's passion.

The last book you bought is?
2 books of poetry at the same time: Alice Walker’s Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth : New Poems and Demetria Martinez’s The Devil’s Workshop.

What are you currently reading?
Between Eminence and Notoriety: Four Decades of Radical Urban Planning, by legendary progressive planner Chester Hartman.

Five books you would take to a deserted island?
1. Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible
2. Isabel Allende: Paula
3. Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections
4. J. Anthony Lukas: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
5. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment

Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?
1. The incomparable Saleem Reshamwala of Apex High and now Kid Ethic fame
2&3. Marjorie and Mikaela - although already invited by Erik, I'm seconding his request for their answers.
* Why? Because when it comes down to it, no one's more fascinating to me than Saleem, Marjorie, and Mikaela (or as entertaining).