swestrup | Just Because.

1. One book that changed your life.
There aren't any. As I once told one of my English teachers on this very subject (paraphrased as it was many years ago) "I am the one that changes my life, for good or ill. All a book can ever do is show me a new path. Its up to me to take it or not." However there are many many books that have revealed some small part of the path to me, that I chose to go down.

2. One book you have read more than once.
Sometimes I get bored and reread books in my library. Sometimes I forget I've read a book until it starts to seem eerily familiar somewhere during the second or third chapters. Usually though, I only read a book once. I do not find such events notable though, so I've mostly forgotten them. I've probably read "Lord of the Rings" more than once though.

3. One book you would want on a desert island.
"How to get off a desert island using only this book, in three easy steps."

4. One book that made you laugh.
There are a number of books that I've found humorous. Most of the work of Terry Pratchett, for instance. I also have a great fondness for the work of Douglas Adams, but most of his Hitchhikers trilogy was already familiar to me through his radio plays, so they didn't have the spontaneity necessary to make me laugh while reading.

5. One book that made you cry.
I do my best to avoid such books. I seem to recall To Reign in Hell came close. Oh, and I just remembered Flowers for Algernon was heart wrenching.

6. One book you wish had been written.
E.E. "Doc" Smith had supposedly always planned to write one more Lensman book. He divulged the fact and the plot to Heinlein not long before he died. Heinlein wrote about it in his memoirs, but never revealed the plot, so now its gone forever. There are also several books that I've wanted to write but haven't, so far.

7. One book you wish had never been written.
Hard to say. I'm not much into censorship. Still, had Battlefield Earth never been written, the world would be a little bit better place.

8. One book you are currently reading.
Fourth book of the Gunslinger series by Stephen King. Like Firestarter, the only other SF by him that I've read, its well written but full of massive plot holes due to the fact that King knows no science and seems incapable of consistency.

9. One book you have been meaning to read.
Well, at the moment I would love to get my hands on any one of Judas Unchained, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, or the latest in the Species Imperative series.