Preference Tag 3 - Books

1. What was your favourite book when you were a kid?
Charlie and the chocolate factory – Donald Dahl
2. What is your favourite book now?
Why do I love these people? – Po Bronson. Highly recommended.
3. What book are you reading/ have you read recently?
Why do I love these people? – Po Bronson. Highly recommended.
4. What is the next book you want to read?
The five people you meet in heaven – Mitch Albom. I’m going to meet them soon.
5. Name the book that you can call it ‘rubbish’.
交換日記 -少爺占．林一峰. What the heck!?
6. Name the sadness book you have ever read. What is it about?
Norwegian Woods – Haruki Murakami. Read many times and felt depressed many times.
7. Name the most cheerful book that you have ever read. What is it about?
Asian smile (2) – Smiley of children – Masashi Mitsui. Smiley of children gives me strength.
8. Name the most nasty book that you have ever read.
Playboy. Don’t ask when and where and how. Not now, not here, not mine.
9. Name the book that is not your favourite, but you remember exactly what is it about.
Peter and Jane 11b – Carnival (Ladybird series). Peter and Jane went to a carnival with one or two cousins. They dressed up as an astronauts and a fairy in the parade, jumped off with a parachute, bought home made cookies, saw a diving show and fireworks at night. I remember this because it was my home dictation assignment in an Easter holiday some years ago.
10. What writing topic can easily draw your attention?
A book called ‘The life audit’. By Caroline Righton.

11. Any book that you had bought without a second thought?
寂寞的十七歲 -白先勇. Bought this when I was at my lonely 24.
12. Do you like to buy a book or borrow it from a library?
I like to maintain a collection of books.
13. How often do you pay a visit to a bookstore?
Twice a week, after lunch.
14. Which section do you visit first when you go to a bookstore?
English section, travel guides.
15. When and where do you usually read?
When I commute.
16. Which textbook could arouse your interest and why?
Atlas. Don’t think I have to explain this, right?
17. Which is the best children story you have ever read?
Charlie and the chocolate factory. All time favourite.
18. Which is the best love story you have ever read?
神鵰俠侶 -金庸. No one can argue on this.
19. Which is the best fiction you have ever read?
Kafka on the shore – Haruki Murakami. Although I couldn’t understand half of the story, its structure is ever the best among his collection. I like the adventure of that young boy.
20. Name the book that you have, but it is on the least of your reading list?
The divine comedy – Dante Alighieri. I am too stupid to understand.

21. Have you ever met or talked to an author of your favourite?
Yes. Chung Wai Man, author of Snow, Wolf, Lake. My 2nd favourite love story.
22. Who is the author you want to meet the most?
J.K. Rowling. Wanted to ask her when she will stop writing. Please stop earlier if possible.
23. Have you ever done some follow-up research after reading certain books?
Yes. After reading The lost civilization – The Jewish kingdom. Searched for the history of Jewish massacre, Crusaders, WWII etc.
24. Have you ever imagined that you were any character of any book?
Yes. Watanabe-kun in Norwegian Woods. Because I read it when I was 20, same age of Watanabe-kun.
25. Which story that you wanted it to be made into movie?
Dance, dance, dance – Haruki Murakami. It would be a good mysterious movie.
26. If you can make an audio book of your own, what would you like to have?
Idylls of the King – Alfred Lord Tennyson. May be it’s available?
27. If you are going to write a book, what is the topic you want to write about?
A nightmare that I had last week. Everyone whom I know were dying in batch with terrible symptoms, like being scared by ghost dolls; stabbed by swords grown on someone’s back; fell from a long ladder; dropped from a cliff after opening a door…I was not dead yet when I woke up but I believed I would have to solve this mystery to break this spell.
28. If you are having a coffee in Starbucks, what book do you want to read?
Hear the Wind Sing – Haruki Murakami.
29. If you are having a long flight, what book do you want to read?
Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
30. What kind of finger food you would like to have when you are reading a book?
I don’t eat. But a cup of Earl Grey please.

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