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Book Meme, Day "10" – Favorite classic book
Oh hey it's the book meme! But first, a riddle for you: What has eight fingers, two thumbs, and decided to do a page-a-day meme during the busiest month of the year? This guy lady! Now back to your regularly scheduled pontificating:
Day 10 – Favorite classic book
Apart from taking a rather literal meaning of 'books from ancient Greece or Rome' (in which I am woefully under-read), I have no idea what the boundaries are for the proposed set of 'classic books' from which I am supposed to select an answer. Indeed, although there's a great deal of overlap in proposed sets of 'the classics' of literature, the only thing that anyone really seems to agree on is that nobody agrees about what exactly makes a book a 'classic', and even on the rare occasions when a group of people agree on a definition, there's considerable disagreement about which books qualify. So I am a bit stuck. Also, it's 1:30 in the morning.
Anyway, as tempting as it is to answer "I reject the premise of this question", I'm gonnastick an imaginary pin in a mental card catalogue go with Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, for what I assume are all the usual reasons. Good story, influential and important, deals with heavy shit while being actually quite lighthearted and funny, etc. (More importantly: unlike a few other possible candidates, it doesn't look likely to come up as an answer to later meme questions.)
Upcoming Days
Day 11 – A book you hated
Day 12 – A book you used to love but don’t anymore
Day 13 – Your favorite writer
Day 14 – Favorite book of your favorite writer
Day 15 – Favorite male character
Day 16 – Favorite female character
Day 17 – Favorite quote from your favorite book
Day 18 – A book that disappointed you
Day 19 – Favorite book turned into a movie
Day 20 – Favorite romance book
Day 21 – Favorite book from your childhood
Day 22 – Favorite book you own
Day 23 – A book you wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t
Day 24 – A book that you wish more people would’ve read
Day 25 – A character who you can relate to the most
Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something
Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending
Day 28 – Favorite title
Day 29 – A book everyone hated but you liked
Day 30 - Your favorite book of all time
In non-book related news, it's been getting cold again, and the buddlejas have lost almost all their purple, and reverted to looking like long brown corpse-fingers poking over the sides of walls. What was that 'summer' I was talking about a few weeks ago?
Day 10 – Favorite classic book
Apart from taking a rather literal meaning of 'books from ancient Greece or Rome' (in which I am woefully under-read), I have no idea what the boundaries are for the proposed set of 'classic books' from which I am supposed to select an answer. Indeed, although there's a great deal of overlap in proposed sets of 'the classics' of literature, the only thing that anyone really seems to agree on is that nobody agrees about what exactly makes a book a 'classic', and even on the rare occasions when a group of people agree on a definition, there's considerable disagreement about which books qualify. So I am a bit stuck. Also, it's 1:30 in the morning.
Anyway, as tempting as it is to answer "I reject the premise of this question", I'm gonna
Upcoming Days
Day 11 – A book you hated
Day 12 – A book you used to love but don’t anymore
Day 13 – Your favorite writer
Day 14 – Favorite book of your favorite writer
Day 15 – Favorite male character
Day 16 – Favorite female character
Day 17 – Favorite quote from your favorite book
Day 18 – A book that disappointed you
Day 19 – Favorite book turned into a movie
Day 20 – Favorite romance book
Day 21 – Favorite book from your childhood
Day 22 – Favorite book you own
Day 23 – A book you wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t
Day 24 – A book that you wish more people would’ve read
Day 25 – A character who you can relate to the most
Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something
Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending
Day 28 – Favorite title
Day 29 – A book everyone hated but you liked
Day 30 - Your favorite book of all time
In non-book related news, it's been getting cold again, and the buddlejas have lost almost all their purple, and reverted to looking like long brown corpse-fingers poking over the sides of walls. What was that 'summer' I was talking about a few weeks ago?