Love someone comes to town! Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is my choice.

DaVinci Code. Didn’t even get to the end of the first page.

I love that book. Read it in English.

The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture by Amos Root. I’m not a beekeeper, but I’m fascinated by all things bee. This book has interesting information for keepers and all sorts of facts about bees.

News And Rumor In Renaissance Europe: The Fugger Newsletters. The Fuggers ran an international banking organization, one of the earliest. They required their agents to send back regular reports about things happening where they were stationed. This selection contains everything from a first-hand account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake, a description of a 10 day feast by one of the Ottoman royalty, to the story of a local church play where the person playing Jesus had stolen something and was betrayed to the authorities by the person playing Judas. The past is far stranger then most people know.

Catch-22. At least 15 times since i first read it in 4th grade.

Absolute genius.

Catch-22. Read it for the first time when I was about 10. Didn’t understand it all, of course, but found it very funny. Yossarrian reminded me of Bugs Bunny. Read it every year for the next decade or so and it became less funny each time.

Yossarrian lives in a world which doesn’t make sense, but people in authority want him to believe it does. They don’t know how to handle his refusal/inability to not point out the irrationality of everything. He reacts to the world that is, the satone other people know exists but want him to pretend doesn’t. This is exactly what Bugs Bunny does.

Read it in my 40s.loved it.

Until I got diagnosed when I was in my 30s, reading was the only time my thoughts weren’t running and jumping. I read a lot and all the time. I wouldn’t call it an addiction as it hasn’t had any negative impact on me or interfered with my relationships.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - HL Mencken, Prejudices