Introduction
Name: James
Favourite book: Just one? One favourite book? Is not possible! It was bad enough narrowing it down to 10 when I was off to China. Eeek! I don't know.
Here's a small selection of the books that I like, instead: The Hithchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, Good Omens, Neverwhere, all the Discworld series, The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (a fucking epic "future history" with huge amounts of excellent science and politics in, recommended to me by two different tutors at uni), The Illuminatus Trilogy (made all the better by reading the Principia Discordia a few years before and Cosmic Trigger straight after), His Dark Materials (I love the religion, the science, and the Oxford), Harry Potter (so sue me, it's fun), a lot of things by Phillip K Dick but especially VALIS (it's the religion again, gets me every time), Lord of the Rings (geek), and lots and lots and lots more. Non-fiction tends to be history (anything pre-1500), philosophy (pre-Socratic generally), politics (liberalism, anarchism) and religion (Graeco-Roman, Gnostic, Buddhist).
Currently reading: I read lots of books at the same time. Currently a huge pile of Phillip K Dick novels are providing my fiction-before-bed fix, whilst Heraclitus and Krotopkin are daytime reading on the tube and at lunch and so on. Heraclitus is especially good for bus journeys, as you can just about fit a single fragment into each journey (today's was "every animal is driven to pasture with a blow").
Favourite book: Just one? One favourite book? Is not possible! It was bad enough narrowing it down to 10 when I was off to China. Eeek! I don't know.
Here's a small selection of the books that I like, instead: The Hithchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, Good Omens, Neverwhere, all the Discworld series, The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (a fucking epic "future history" with huge amounts of excellent science and politics in, recommended to me by two different tutors at uni), The Illuminatus Trilogy (made all the better by reading the Principia Discordia a few years before and Cosmic Trigger straight after), His Dark Materials (I love the religion, the science, and the Oxford), Harry Potter (so sue me, it's fun), a lot of things by Phillip K Dick but especially VALIS (it's the religion again, gets me every time), Lord of the Rings (geek), and lots and lots and lots more. Non-fiction tends to be history (anything pre-1500), philosophy (pre-Socratic generally), politics (liberalism, anarchism) and religion (Graeco-Roman, Gnostic, Buddhist).
Currently reading: I read lots of books at the same time. Currently a huge pile of Phillip K Dick novels are providing my fiction-before-bed fix, whilst Heraclitus and Krotopkin are daytime reading on the tube and at lunch and so on. Heraclitus is especially good for bus journeys, as you can just about fit a single fragment into each journey (today's was "every animal is driven to pasture with a blow").
