Jan 23
Week Nineteen of the Friday Five – This week the topic is books.
What is it?
Simply answer the five questions below, either copy and answer on your blog linking back to here (leave the link in the comments) or just answer in the comments – up to you, no pressure and no link love required from us 
Usual disclaimer – all questions are random rubbish.
- What is the first book you remember reading?
- What book can you read over and over again?
- Have you read any classic books since leaving school? (ie Shakespeare)
- Do you think technology could replace paper based books?
- Who is your favourite author?
From The FMB Blog The Friday Five – Books: Week Nineteen of the Friday Five – This week the top.. http://tinyurl.com/be385f
1. Probably “Winnie the Pooh”
2. “Lord of the Rings” I suppose and “Winnie the Pooh”
3. Does “Winnie the Pooh” count as a classic?
4. No
5. It used to be John Fowles but now it’s A.A.Milne
1. What is the first book you remember reading? Can’t really recall but it was probably Janet & John at school … there was non of this getting you to read before going to school…pre school was all about fun…
2. What book can you read over and over again? Birdsong – Sebastain Faulks
3. Have you read any classic books since leaving school? (ie Shakespeare)I did actually read Twelfth Night a few years ago
4. Do you think technology could replace paper based books? Absolutely no way …you can’t beat the feel of a book in your hands … however, the next generation coming through will think differently I expect
5. Who is your favourite author? Sebastian Faulkes … although C.J. Sansom comes a very close 2nd (Winter in Madrid and his Shardlake adventures… superb)
From The FMB Blog The Friday Five – Books http://tinyurl.com/be385f
1. The Water Babies
2. The Hobbit
3. No
4. It probably will, but I would personally prefer the touch of a “real” book!
5. Now this is a hard one, I have so many, but out of them all it would have to be Terry Pratchett
1. What is the first book you remember reading? Treasure Island (Stevenson)
2. What book can you read over and over again? The khazar dictionary (Milorad Pavic)
3. Have you read any classic books since leaving school? don’t know..probably. I didn’t read all at the time
4. Do you think technology could replace paper based books?Nooooooooooooooooooo!
5. Who is your favourite author?
somerset maugham, jostein gaarder
1. Can’t remember, I started reading really early, but my mother says my father taugt me with Heisenberg’s “Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations” and I remember reading it with him so probably it was the first one (yes, he was a bit nerdy, so am I).
2. Only one? Ok, “Reaper Man” from Terry Pratchett. It’s a great mixture between philosophy, comedy and fantasy with a beautiful story behind.
3. Yes, lots, from Plato to Carroll. And I agree with Daddy that “Winnie the Pooh” can be considered a classic!
4. Yes, and I agree with it, at least partially. I think we should get and keep just those books we really think are worth to be read in intimacy, by touch, and treasured. We kill so many trees just for printing things without value for us…
5. Terry Pratchett, but I keep a place of honor for Susanna Clarke.
1.Very difficult to say…maybe Jane Eyre’s?!!
2.Razor’s hedge,Somerset Maugham
3.Yes, both portuguese and also american-I read Leaves of grass last year, I think that’s a classic?Or isn’t?
4.I like paper too much.But just remember what happened to music.From vynil to mp3…So one day maybe paper and books will become obsolet.Trees would like that…
5.another difficult question!! I was very impressed with Somerset Maugham at a very early age.And I think i still am.I remember thinking that I would like to meet him!!(I hardly want to know anyone…)
1. I have no idea, but I remember the stories from the Grimm brothers
2. The Little Prince:)
3. not really
4. I don’t think so, paper based books will never “expire”
5. Paulo Coelho
1. Green Eggs and Ham
2. N/A. Although there have been several books I’ve fallen in love with, I would never read a book more than once.
3. The Great Gatsby and Moby Dick. I wasn’t required to read those in my school so felt I was kinda missing out.
4. Nope, definitely not for me.
5. John Lutz
1. “See Jane Run” (standard primer)
2. Two, the Christian Bible and the Kama Sutra.
3. Edgar Rice Burroughs, and other ‘classic fiction’.
4. It’s ongoing the change from paper to digital, just as it went from papyrus to pulp fiber. It’s evolution.
5. Other than myself, none. I go more for either genre or subject matter than by writer…but if I chose it’d be a tie between Stephen King, Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, and Andre’ Norton.
1. Really don’t know
2. Learning books
3. No
4. No I don’t think so.Books are a better way to learn and it’s the bbest way to relax.
5. There’s so many I can’t choose