Dissecting Writers                                   Shadoe

The following questions are taken from a profile of Scottish author Ian Rankin for bookshop chain Waterstone's:
http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/pages/content/1285/
Now all but two have been posed to, Miss Mikhailov: Yekaterina ballerina

http://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poets/_shadoe_/



-What was your favourite childhood book?

Watership Down by Richard Adams


-Which book has made you laugh?

Puckoon by Spike Milligan


-Which book has made you cry?

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne


-Which book would you never have on your bookshelf?

Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series


-Which book are you reading at the moment?

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss


-Which book would you give as a present to a friend?

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird


-Which other writers do you admire?

Rothfuss, Martin, Jonker, Langenhoven & Brink


-Which classic have you always meant to read and never got round to it?

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo


-What are your top five books of all time, in order or otherwise?

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway


-What is the worst book you have ever read?

Fifty Shades of Grey... by that sexually repressed housewife whose name i refuse to remember


-Is there a particular book or author that inspired you to be a writer?

Ingrid Jonker


-What is your favorite time of day to write?

any time there's a fresh pot of coffee brewing

-And favourite place?

my armchair by the window


-Longhand or word processor?

longhand


-Which fictional character would you most like to have met?

Kvothe from The King Killer Chronicles


-Who, in your opinion, is the greatest writer of all time?

Hemingway


-Which book have you found yourself unable to finish reading?

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville


-What is your favourite word?

cicatrix