(Found over at Fantasy Book Reviews)
1) Lord of the Rings: Movies or books?
In all honesty, I prefer the movies. I respect the books for what they are, but I hate reading them. The movies managed to take an exceedingly dull story and bring it to life. I’ll always take the movies over the books.
2) Dragonlance or Forgotten Realms?
Dragonlance. I never got into the Forgotten Realms stuff.
3) Online bookstores or physical (local) bookstores?
Depends on the situation. If I’m buying books for school, I’ll use Amazon. If I’m buying books for myself, I prefer physical stores because I get to actually touch the books and see them in real life. You can learn a lot about a book by actually touching it with your fingers (or smelling it).
4) Hardcover or paperback?
This depends too. I prefer hardback to trade paperback, primarily because the latter has a tendency to end up bent or in shoddy shape. But I prefer mass market paperback to hardback because I can get three mass markets for the price of one hardback. Seems logical, right?
5) Secondary World or Real World?
Hmm. Now this is a hard one. I don’t think I can properly answer this. Are science fiction worlds representative of the real world? Or are they secondary? Or neither? If neither, then I’d have to say I prefer secondary worlds, even though I do happen to enjoy a lot of contemporary fantasy that takes place in our own world. If the real world is meant to be science fiction, then I prefer that to the other. It’s a bit of a dilemma.
Well, there you go! Feel free to answer the questions in the comments or turn this into a meme and write a blog post!
