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We’ve been tagged for a book meme, which should be fun and a convenient way to see if McBoing is still alive. It’s about that time of the month where a customer service rep starts to hear all kinds of zany things, so maybe we’d hear from him even if I didn’t actively attempt to pry him from hiding.

Let’s get on with our literary selves:

Punkass Marc:
1. One book that changed your life?
The Bible. This thing has seriously jacked up my life and just won’t stop.

2. One book you have read more than once?
The Watchmen. Comic haters be damned.

3. One book you would want on a desert island?
Any book that floats.

4. One book that made you laugh?
Moon Landings: Did NASA Lie? That book was pretty funny.

5. One book that made you cry?
Where the Red Fern Grows. More of a story than a book, but damn that wrecked me in 8th grade. Not sure I ever got over it.

6. One book you wish had been written?
I guess I’ll take the Bible again, because that would mean I was a lot of people who lived a loooong time and knew how to spin a good yarn.

7. One book you wish had never had been written?
Jeez, if I say the Bible again, I’ll get beat about the face and shoulders, huh? I guess I’ll take The O’Reilly Factor for Kids for $200, Alex.

8. One book you are currently reading?
Just finished Killing Yourself to Live by talented egomaniac Chuck Klosterman. My current read is one of those “you shoulda read this a long time ago” books I don’t care to mention.

9. One book you have been meaning to read?
Damn, is this thing reading my mind? Anyway, I badly want to read a good Orson Welles biography, since I’m obsessed with his work and all.

R. Mildred:
1. One book that changed your life?

2. One book you have read more than once?

3. One book you would want on a desert island?

4. One book that made you laugh?

5. One book that made you cry?

6. One book you wish had been written?

7. One book you wish had never had been written?

8. One book you are currently reading?

9. One book you have been meaning to read?

Kyso K.:
1. One book that changed your life?

2. One book you have read more than once?

Lynn Peril’s Pink Think. It’s entertaining and reminds me to be thankful for what I have. My entire life would have been effectively impossible not even 40 years ago.

3. One book you would want on a desert island?

My big blue copy of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It’s really hard to get tired of Douglas Adams.

4. One book that made you laugh?

Dave Barry Does Japan. The only book on Japan that actually gave me useful advice. A must-read for anyone who plans to visit Japan for a short while, especially if they don’t actually speak Japanese. All of the other guidebooks will give you way too much credit; you’ll want at least one written by someone who will admit to having felt they way you feel right then.

5. One book that made you cry?

Schindler’s List. ’nuff said.

6. One book you wish had been written?

At the end of the lackluster time-killer that is White Oleander, there was a book-club guide where the author talked about how she came up with the mother character by reading about the idle rich of another culture, I think it was an Asian one, from some point in history and how they cared so much about aethstetics that they didn’t care if people were starving on their doorstep as long as they had the right outfits or the proper garden, and how it would be to have a person with that mindset but not the obscene wealth or power in modern times. I wish she’d written that book instead of White Oleander, which tracked that person’s boring daughter through an improbably dramatic, sexed up but not too gritty or realistic foster care system.

7. One book you wish had never had been written?

Atlas Shrugged. Never actually read it, but have had conversations with enough Randroids to make me wish she’d never learned to write.

8. One book you are currently reading?

The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi. I found this in Border’s shortly after writing a post on the Da Vinci diet. Turns out that math history is actually more interesting than math, especially when someone goes to the trouble of dumbing it down for us non-mathameticians.

9. One book you have been meaning to read?

Godel Escher Bach The Eternal Golden Braid. I’ve started it like three times, but it is dense. Cool, but dense.

Mc(dead)Boing:
1. One book that changed your life?
The Bible. Read it once and I knew.

2. One book you have read more than once?
Nick Cave’s “The Ass and the Angel.” Heavy-handed but wordy in a good way.

3. One book you would want on a desert island?
“How to Survive on a Desert Island, Annotated Edition”

4. One book that made you laugh?
Okay, too tired to finish and I’m about to start drinking.

5. One book that made you cry?
Beer.

6. One book you wish had been written?
Beer.

7. One book you wish had never had been written?
White wine.

8. One book you are currently reading?
Beer.

9. One book you have been meaning to read?
Beer.