Books

You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451. Which book do you want to be?

I think this is a poorly worded way of asking: what fictional universe would you most like to inhabit? The answer is simple. John Norman’s Gor.

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

Camille Paglia.

The last book you bought is?

The Return of Depression Economics by Paul Krugman.

What are you currently reading?

Assassin of Gor by John Norman
15 Decisive Battles of the World by Edward Creasy
The Song of Roland

I just finished David Brin’s Uplift books three days ago. The first three were quite good, the second two rather less so.

Five books you would take to a desert island

Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
Magister Ludi by Hermann Hesse
The Cambridge Medieval History Series
Watership Down by Richard Adams