Books, books, books,

As a child, my mother would hide my book to get me to the dinner table without reading. My mother, 12 schools in 12 years and many, many books made me who I am.

Books That affected me deeply:

• Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
• As I lay Dying, The Sound and The Fury - Wm. Faulkner
• The Sun Also Rises and virtually every word by Ernest Hemmingway
• The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
• The Life and Times of Michael K. and Waiting for the Barbarians - J. M. Coetzee
• Ironweed, Legs and Billy Phelan's Finest Game by Wm. Kennedy
• The Once and Future King - T. H. White
• Stranger In a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
• The Big Sky and The Way West by A. B. Guthrie
• All the Pretty Horses - and all the rest by Cormac McCarthy
• Legends of the Fall, Farmer, Wolf and more by Jim Harrison