Hi, all...

While waiting in the car repair shop, I flipped through the June 4, '07 edition of Newsweek, and happened upon the familiar face of the Panjandrum..."A Life in Books" it was titled...whereby, in a little box in the corner, Jasper picks his all time five favorite books.

I don't want to spoil the surprise for anyone, but I did write them down, (tearing our pages of communal magazines is frowned upon) and will spill them back here, if someone wants to know....I have read three of them, but on the strength of Jasper's recommendation, am planning on getting the other two. Also, there's an excerpt from First Among Sequels at xtra.newsweek.com, but I haven't checked it out. I'll wait until I can read the whole thing at once.

Post if you want the list...Ffran

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would
ever get done.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I want to know! I remember reading somewhere here that one of his favourite books is Summer Lightnening by P. G. Wodehouse, but that's all I can guess.
Please post :)

Oh, go on, pretty please!

***Spoilers***

Here goes (in no particular order, except that of my unordered memory):

Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Diary of a Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome (now, really, who names a child that?)
Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonegut

I've ordered the two I haven't read from alibris, and hope they arrive in time to fill the weeks until FAS is released in the States.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would
ever get done.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Read 4 out of 5. Not bad.

Catch-22 is a very odd book though... Timeline is really messed up....

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland