MY HOBBIES
Here's a list of things I enjoy doing - select one to see more details.
Books
Films
Computer Games
Books
I enjoy science fiction and fantasy, but good thrillers and detective stories also interest me...
No particular order, but as they came to mind.
- The Riftwar Saga (Magician / Silverthorn / A Darkness at Sethanon) - Raymond E. Feist (Fantasy)
- Fingerprints of the Gods - Graham Hancock (Non-fiction)
- The Alchemist - Peter James (Thriller)
- The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien (Fantasy)
- Starship Troopers - Robert E. Heinlein (Science Fiction)
- Wild Swans - Jung Chang (Non-fiction)
- Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset (Historical novel)
- The Earth's Children Series - Jean M. Auel (Fantasy novel)
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- The Hitchiker's Guide to the Universe - Douglas Adams (Science Fiction)
- Dune - Frank Herbert (Science Fiction)
- The Ceremony of Innocence - Anthony James Cassidy (Novel)
- Tintin and Asterix novels
- Tai-Pan - James Clavell (Historical novel)
- The Dancing Wu-Li Masters - Gary Zukav (Popular Science)
- The Descent of Woman - Elaine Morgan (Popular Science)
- Permutation City - Greg Egan (Science Fiction)
- Vurt - Jeff Noon (Cyberpunk)
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Films
Everything goes here - I spend as much of my time watching movies as possible!
- The Matrix
- All the Alien movies (especially Aliens)
- Star Wars: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back (episodes 1 and 6 are pretty low-class)
- The Fifth Element
- Old James Bond movies (I love them!)
- The Mummy
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
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- Benny & Joon (don't ask)
- Delicatessen
- The City of Lost Children
- The Secret of Roan Inish
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- Blazing Saddles and other old Mel Brooks movies
- The Maltese Falcon
- Starship Troopers
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Computer Games
I play mostly adventure games - I never really got into action games,
though role-playing games are taking more of my time of late.
Here are my favourites:
- Betrayal at Krondor [RPG]
- The Broken Sword series (1-2) [ADV]
- Diablo [ACT/RPG]
- Fallout 2 [RPG]
- The Gabriel Knight series (1-2) [ADV]
- The King's Quest Series (1-6) [ADV]
- Little Big Adventure 2 [ADV]
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- The Monkey Island series (1-2) [ADV]
- The Neverhood [ADV]
- The Pandora Directive [ADV]
- Starcraft [STR]
- Warcraft 2 [STR]
- Zork Nemesis and Zork Grand Inquisitor [ADV]
- Planescape Torment [RPG]
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