Please complete this questionnaire, along with explanations. (I've filled it in myself, so you can see the kind of thing I mean.) You need to GIVE REASONS for your answers!
1) Your all-time favourite book(s):
Aaargh! Aaargh! Okay, I can't pick JUST ONE, so I'll cheat a bit, and pick a story that's three books in one:
The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Because the words of this are practically inscribed on my heart at this point. I love the epic aspects of the story, and the astonishingly detailed world-building, and the battles, and I love the simple, quirky, funny, happy-go-lucky hobbits who are at the centre of all the horrors of war. I cannot read 'The Choices of Master Samwise' in 'The Two Towers' without crying my eyes out.
2) Your all-time favourite character:
Sam Gamgee from 'The Lord of the Rings'. I had to think quite hard about this, but then I realised that it had to be Sam. Sam isn't the main character, but I think that he's actually the most heroic of all of them. He's kind, unassuming, down-to-earth and very unremarkable, but he has an unexpected streak of poetry in his soul and he is unflinchingly loyal and brave in the face of terrifying and hopeless odds.
3) The fictional character you'd like to have as a friend:
Luna Lovegood and/or Neville Longbottom, from the HarryPotter books. I love Luna to bits because she is so very much herself, and because she doesn't worry about other people's opinions. And I love Neville for many of the reasons that I love Sam Gamgee: he's a genuinely good person, and underappreciated.
4) The fictional character you'd like to have with you if you were stuck on a desert island:
5) The worst fictional character to be stuck in a lift with:
6) The book you'd most like to be able to live in:
7) The book you'd least like to be forced to live in:
8) The fictional character you'd most like to be like:
9) A fictional character you think you ARE like:
10) Your favourite genre, and why you like it:
11) Your favourite writer (or writers) and why they're brilliant:
12) A book you didn't expect to like, but did anyway:
13) A book you think is overrated:
14) A book you wish had a sequel:
15) A book you wish you'd never read:
