The Meme of Books what's been going around.

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Hardback or Paperback? Hardback, discounted or used.

Highlight or Underline? Post-It.

Lewis or Tolkien? Both, along with Charles Williams.

E.B. White or A.A. Milne? A.A. Milne

T.S. Eliot or e.e. cummings? Frank Jacobs.

Stephen King or Dean Koontz? H.P. Lovecraft, you plebe.

Barnes & Noble or Borders? Amazon

Waldenbooks or B. Dalton? Amazon

Fantasy or Science Fiction? Both

Horror or Suspense? Either

Bookmark or Dogear? Bookmark

Hemingway or Faulkner? Oh, just put a bullet in my head right now, why don't you?

Fitzgerald or Steinbeck? Upton Sinclair.

Homer or Plato? Both

Geoffrey Chaucer or Edmund Spenser? Chaucer

Pen or Pencil? Both

Looseleaf or Notepad? Graph paper

Alphabetize: By Author or By Title? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Riiiiiight.

Dustjacket: On or Off? On.

Novella or Epic? Either. Bring it awn.

John Grisham or Scott Turow? Fuck that shit, man.

J.K. Rowling or Lemony Snicket? Both

John Irving or John Updike? I hate Irving. I haven't read Updike.

Fiction or Non-fiction? Both. Neither.

Historical Biography or Historical Romance? Define your terms, you damn hippie!

A Few Pages per Sitting or Finish at Least a Chapter? Whatever I can get through.

Short Story or Creative Non-fiction Essay? Quality writin'. I don't care about genre.

"It was a dark and stormy night" or "Once upon a time"? A screaming comes across the sky. In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. It was love at first sight. Alice was eating grapes in the park when Herbert, an extremely well-endowed young man, introduced himself to her.

Buy or Borrow? Hunt down copies at ridiculously low prices.

Book Reviews or Word of Mouth? Both and neither.

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