Isaac
Marion was born in northwestern Washington in 1981 and has lived in and
around Seattle his whole life and worked installing heating ducts, guarding
power plants, delivering beds to hospice patients and supervising parental
visits for foster children. He is not married, has no children and did not go
to college or win any prizes. Warm Bodies (Atria, April 26, 2011) is his first novel.
On your nightstand now:
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
Favorite book when you were a child:
Varied constantly, but maybe the Redwall series?
Your top five authors:
I
might be able to pick top five books but never authors. I rarely read more than
one or two books by the same author, so I can't really vouch for any author's
entire catalogue.
Book you've faked reading:
I've never actually told someone I've read a book that I haven't, but I have lots of classic novels on my shelf that I "haven't gotten to yet." Mainly because they're old leathery editions and they just look cool. Call it decorative literature.
Book you're an evangelist for:
At the moment, Everything Matters! by Ron Currie Jr.
Book you've bought for the cover:
Any Chuck Palahniuk book.
Book that changed your life:
Life change is a lot to attribute to any one book, but Everything Matters! did cause me to rethink some pretty big issues.
Favorite line from a book:
The last line in The Road by Cormac McCarthy: "In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."
Book you most want to read again for the first time:
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.