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Dissecting Writers                                  Jon Rot

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 our resident bad ass nine toed Jon Rot:

http://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poets/johnrot/

-What was your favorite childhood book?

A specific title is hard to pinpoint, but as a child I always enjoyed many of the choose your own adventure series.


Past toddler,early double digits, I believe age 12 was The Old Man and the Sea,Ernest Hemingway.


-Which book has made you laugh?

The Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks


-Which book has made you cry?

Get in The Van, Henry Rollins


-Which book would you never have on your bookshelf?

I wouldn't deny anything but if you want The Satanic Bible,Anton Szandor Lavey, you can have it.


-Which book are you reading at the moment?

mostly textbooks for school but recreationally when time allows Martin Dillon's The Shankill Butchers: A Case Study of Mass Murder (1989 and 1998).


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

The Serial Killer's Club by Jeff Povey


-Which other writers do you admire?

James Joyce,H.P. Lovecraft,Jack Kerouac,Woody Guthrie,
Benjamin Hoff,friends and peers from Du and other sources that are that are always pushing their creativity forward with no regard for trends.


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

Dante's inferno


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

Sorry to slack on it but my mode changes so much i couldn't say.

Right now though,

#1 is definitely
Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus,Gilles Deleuze


-What is the worst book you have ever read?

The Five People You Meet In Heaven,Mitch Album.

Hated it !!!!!


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

i wouldn't even give myself that much credit as to title myself a "writer" but,
Bob Dylan created a window into a world of hobo,vagabond americana character description when i was very young that sparked my desire to research everything else and start scribbling.


-What is your favorite time of day to write?

Early morning,before and through sunrise.


-And favorite place?

In the bar cart on a long train ride. The culture in the conversation between travelers is awe inspiring.


-Longhand or word processor?

longhand


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

Roland Deschain from The Gunslinger, an installment of Stephen King's Dark Tower series.


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

I have yet to read him or her but can't wait.

Which book have you found yourself unable to finish reading?

i have read Leaves of Grass,Walt Whitman, page sporadically
a thousand times i'm sure, but never front to back continuously.


-What is your favorite word?

phenomenology (n)

the philosophical investigation and description of conscious experience in all its varieties without reference to the question of whether what is experienced is objectively real.
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