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If there's one thing I love more than video games, movies, animation and music, it's books. There's nothing more satisfying that hanging out in a great book store. Really unique book stores. Some have many secret rooms. Others have books on one floor, records on another, movies on the top, and comics in the basement. Some are winding mall stores. Some are hidden gems tucked into some old warehouse. However you find your books, it's one of those vices that is good to have. Oh no! I'm addicted to books! The only problem(s) are having the space for them, and that it is an expensive habit (especially comic books and art books) -- but then again most vices are expensive habits! Just ask a nun how expensive her habit was.
I was into reading from a very young age, it was fostered by my family and good teachers. Here are some kids books I enjoyed.
KIDS BOOKS

...around fifth grade or middle school I started to branch out into other stuff... Mystery books, history books, sci-fi, the classics of literature... my friends and I have read a lot of Star Wars and Indiana Jones books, but I also got more into authors like Michael Crichton, Mario Puzo and Peter Benchley because of movies like Jurassic Park, The Godfather and Jaws. Sometimes the book is better, sometimes not. This was around the time I started to write more of my own stories. As I got older, I read more voraciously any books I could find, fiction or non-fiction. I would love to one day work in a book store, like the Borders by the mall that used to be a theater -- but they said I wasn't old enough back when I tried to apply at age fourteen! When you're a kid they teach you about Edgar Allen Poe and other classic authors, and slowly you get to pick out your favorites to read for fun. I mean, if it counts towards a reading assignment, why the hell not? It used to count towards pizza. My favorite authors these days are Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S Thompson and Carl Sagan. I would love to meet Vonnegut or Hunter. I think they really shaped the way I think in weird ways. My favorite science fiction authors are Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov. Of course, I have great memories of reading H.G. Wells. I spent an entire trip across the Golden Gate reading War of the Worlds. One dark night I was reading Isle of Doctor Moreau, and was just up to the point where the animalcreatures attack, and my cat chose that exact moment to jump up on the bed.
BOOKS

But I will always have a special place in my heart for Sherlock Holmes. I would stay up at night reading the stories. I love a good mystery, and these are really some of the best, and among the earliest. I think it's really cool that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made him into a skeptical figure. It's a bit ironic since Doyle was a believer in spirits and fairies, and his good friend Houdini (the magician who made a living tricking people) was actually much more critical thinking. Yet they were really close friends. In England there's a pub at 221b Baker Street dedicated to Holmes, and the food was just meh but they had an upstairs "apartment" or "flat" made to look like it belonged to Holmes and Watson. If you're going to watch a TV or film version, the Basil Rathbone ones are classics, but for my money you can't beat Jeremy Brett. He was an icon in that role, and nobody will ever top that. There are many parodies of Sherlock Holmes: one that we love is Without A Clue with Michael Caine. The premise is that the roles are flipped, Watson is the genius and Holmes is a bumbling drunken actor. We loved this movie so much on VHS that eventually the video rental place just let us buy it because we were the only ones who did, and we rented it so many times. I guess it's not very well known!

You can tell I really like science-fiction from many of my favorites. A teacher introduced me to Douglas Adams "Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" which combines sci-fi with comedy. He actually played the radio version in class for us so we could start to script our own audio drama (or comedy), and you know it fit with my weird sense of humor!