Nicked from angusdevotee (and everybody else)

“This short survey is to encourage readers, writers, and poets to share a few simple things about ourselves. There are only twelve questions, and none of them have to do with eye color, sexual preferences, or high school crushes. Please read, answer, and repost. We might learn something from each other.”

1. Three authors that have inspired or influenced my writing are:
Joe Keenan, Charles Yu (His story "Class Three Superhero"), and JD Salinger (when I was younger).

2. The hardest part of the writing process for me is:
Revision

3. One book I have always intended to read, but I haven’t yet is:
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

4. (True or False) I sometimes read non-fiction for pleasure.
False, I think. Unless you count books on various obsessions of mine such as gemstones, colleges or airplanes.

5. (True or False) I came from a family that read a lot.
Both. My mom reads a lot. My dad thinks reading is a waste of time unless it's a book about medical physics. However, he does want to someday write a novel in which physicists take over the world. Now you know where my silly streak comes from.

6. My favorite movie adaptation of a book is:
Apocalypse Now (if that counts as an adaptation of Heart of Darkness)

7. The most boring book I ever read all the way through is:
Paradise Lost. (Apologies to Mr. Milton. It would have been The Faerie Queen, but the question specifically said I had to read all the way through.)

8. Poetry is:
pretty, but sometimes puzzling.

9. My favorite place to read is:
outdoors by the pool in my apartment complex on one of the three days a year we have cool weather. I sit there and pretend I'm king of all the palm trees.

10. The funniest thing I have read recently is:
puckishprose's livejournal. I wish he would post more.

11. The most mind challenging thing I have read recently is:
Now You See Him by Eli Gottleib.

12. When I stop by my local library the librarians must think:
"Oh my goodness, it's someone not here to use the internet! How did he ever get a parking space? Hey, isn't that the fellow who offered to volunteer a couple years ago whom we still haven't called? Well, look sharp in case he wants to borrow either of our books."