I can't remember a time when there weren't strange characters and places in my head, then I discovered books and found out I wasn't the only one. I would read anything that wasn't nailed down from comics to classics. One day it was Batman, Superman and the Xmen, the next I would be visiting Shangri la, or floating down the Mississippi with Mark Twain and Tom Sawyer. I fought with Dumas and the Three Musketeers. Stood with Dickens in the worst of times and best of times, or launched with Jules Verne's Captain Nemo. Dick Francis introduced me to more...
