Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Since I learnt of the Friday Five’s (http://fridayfive.org/) existance on Relly’s blog, I’ve been waiting for it to actually put up some questions actually worth answering. I won’t make this a regular thing, of course, but I’m really bored right now and it’ll give me a chance to flex the fingers.

So. Here goes:

1. What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)?

Clearly, the thing I read most of (besides the computer screen) would be Comics. Not just any comics, of course. It used to be exclusively super-hero comics from Marvel, but in the past year or two I’ve branched out a bit into the underground and indie scene. I currently read X-Men, Daredevil, Captain Marvel, Rising Stars, Transformers, and anything by Jhonen Vasquez, Brian Wood or Jim Mahfood. It’s not a wide mix, but it’s what I enjoy.

2. What is your favorite novel?
My favourite novel is, undisputedly, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It is masterfully written and even if it does get a bit wonky towards the end of the “trilogy”, it’s still the one book I’d take with me if I was going to be stuck on a desert island (that works many ways, actually, because it’s quite thick and would probably burn pretty good if it came down to that)

3. Do you have a favorite poem? (Share it!)
I quite like “The Sick Rose” By William Blake.

O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

I know damn well there are other poems that I like, but I can’t think of a sodding one of them. Maybe I’ll revisit this subject if I ever remember any more.

4. What is one thing you’ve always wanted to read, or wish you had more time to read?

I haven’t actually read “Brave New World” yet, but I will. I think I’d quite like to read “Mein Kampf”. Hmm. There’s not really anything I regret not reading. I’ll tell you one thing though, I regret strongly reading all kinds of crap at school. Great Expectations. Sense and Sensibility. Jesus fucking Christ, there’s nothing that ruins a good book more than being forced to read it. More often than not I’d get a third of the way through and pretend I knew what was happenning. A grades at A-Level suggest this technique works. I still don’t know what the plot was of Great Expectations. I remember he left home, or something. There was a girl I think. It’s blank form that point on.

5. What are you currently reading?
I am currently reading no books. I finished my backlog of Chuck Palihuniuk (If I spelt that right from memory, I’ll be amazed) novels and the complete 5-Volume short stories of Phillip K. Dick, and as I said earlier, Brave New World is next.