I really prefer books to people to be honest. In fact, one of my top dystopias is that classic episode of the Twilight Zone where the world end and Burgess Meredith is left alone with all of these books and nothing but time to read them all. Anyways, I love reading because, in the words of one Ray Bradbury character, "You can lose yourself in a world of adventure! Tom Sawyer, Robinson Caruso, Saga of the Thunder Lizards!" I've got four bookshelves overflowing with books and I'm hoping to find a house someday that will be filled wall-to-wall with books like a classic Scooby Doo episode of Lex Luthor's hideout in the 1977 Superman movie, complete with a ladder on wheels. I don't understand some of the negativity about adult books because there's just so much more THERE with adult authors. You think the Hunger Games is a frightening idea? Try it's spiritual grandfather, Stephen King's "The Long Walk". Really most of the King's books are among my favorites, from classic chillers like "IT" and "The Shining" to unexpected thrillers like "Firestarter" and "The Dead Zone, and even things like "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" and "The Body" (Later adapted into the film "Stand By Me") that you wouldn't expect from the master of the craft. That's just one author, besides him, fiction boasts Shirley Jackson, Ira Levin, Timothy Zahn, Richard Adams, Michael Crichton, Ray Bradbury, and a host of others. Plus there's comic books and graphic novels. Wowza what a field of talent that genre is, with Brian Vaughn's "Y: The Last Man" and "Runaways", Alan Moore's "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?", and Jimmy Gownley's "Amelia Rules!" being among my personal favorite from off of that shelf.

And don't even get me started on nonfiction. I'm the kid who read his 10th grade history text book six and a half times. Just for kicks.