Well, I did say there's a social element to this at the Brown Bloggers meetup...so I might as well get it out of the way.
You're stuck in Fahrenheit 451 . Which book would you be?
There's a Mahayana Buddhist sutra that's something of a talisman to me...I've had a copy of it since I first ran across it some 20 years ago...the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra. I'd give you an Amazon link, but the good translation is out of print. Sounds weird but there you are.
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Discounting the occasional female that was totally other than she presented herself and a couple of well-airbrushed centerfolds, no.
What is the last book you bought?
Honestly, it was about $40 of comic book back issues.
What are you currently reading?
The Fabric of the Cosmos : Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene is the most recent.
Five books you'd take to a desert island.
- That Vimalakirti thing.
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter. It's an intellectual labyrinth.
- Watchmen by Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore.
- Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov; it's cheating because it's three novels bound in one book but it's one book.
- An empty notebook with a pile of pencils
