All sorts. Listed on the above site. Annoyingly the link doesn't seem to work at the moment. You may have to copy and paste...
Movies
Again, on the above site.
Television
Favourite series come and go, but really like Angel/Buffy, early seasons of Frasier, middle seasons of Red Dwarf, series 1 of The League of Gentlemen, Still Game, X Files Seasons 1-5, Gilmore Girls.
Books
Top favourite reads (in no particular order) include:
Nabokov:Pale Fire. Golding: The Spire, The Pyramid, Rites of Passage. Jan Mark: Handles. Joyce: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Diana Wynne Jones: Fire and Hemlock. LP Hartley: The Go-Between. Lowry: Under the Volcano. JL Carr: A Month in the Country. Alan Garner: Red Shift. Alice McDermott: Child of My Heart. Deborah Hautzig: Hey, Dollface. Henry Williamson: Dandelion Days, A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Various novels by Jan Mark, Diana Wynne Jones, Muriel Spark, Beryl Bainbridge, Andre Gide, Robert Westall etc. Poems by Hardy, Sylvia Plath, Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin. The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas. The National Geographic Magazine.
Heroes
How about...Charles Dickens, for writing such a vast ammount of high-quality prose. Extraordinary.
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Nov 12 2009 11:03 PM