I encourage anyone who has been tagged with the “four things” doohickey to pass this back up the line; I think perpetrators should have to come up with four new things (at least in the first four categories) every time another victim passes it back!
Four books I’d buy a friend

1. East of Eden, John Steinbeck
2. Narziss und Goldmund, Hermann Hesse
3. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
4. The Moon and Sixpence, Somerset Maugham

Four books I’d buy an enemy (on condition they had to read ’em)

1. Beloved, Toni Morrison
2. A Million Little Pieces, that guy who was all over the news recently
3. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
4. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne

Four pieces of music I’d miss if I went deaf

1. Tabula Rasa, Arvo Part (played by Shaham/Anthony)
2. In A Landscape, John Cage (played by Stephen Drury)
3. Are You The One (That I’ve Been Waiting For)?, Nick Cave
4. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pink Floyd

Four pieces of music that make me want to gnaw out my own eardrums

1. Do You Believe, that Cher thing
2. Popcorn (I like it, but what an earworm)
3. anything with a breakbeat
4. anything by Kenny G

Four pet peeves

1. people who stand right in front of “No Smoking” signs, smoking
2. people who stand at the front of the bus when there’s room to move back
3. the phrase “very unique”
4. Kenny G

Four things I like that other people commonly find weird or horrible or both

1. vegemite
2. Neil Diamond
3. stale cookies (pre-fungus, though, of course)
4. high humidity on a hot day

Four popular things that I think are weird or horrible or both

1. oysters
2. snow
3. reality television
4. Kenny G

Spousal unit, I’m looking at you!