You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
The Iliad, preferably in its original form, but only if I first learn ancient Greek. (The original poetry would be much easier to memorize than any translated prose version.)
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Hank Rearden, maybe. (Perhaps that's why I always imagine him dark-haired, rather than as the blonde that he is.) Oh, and Mr. Darcy of Pride and Prejudice, of course.
Oh wait, I just finished The Histories by Herodotus. I actually listened to the two volume audiobook under the title "The Persian Wars," available from Audible.com here and here.
What are you currently reading?
Since I'm presently reading a bunch of books, I've ordered them by frequency of read:
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle. Instead of re-reading, I'm listening to the W.D. Ross translation available from Audible.com.
The Russian Tradition by Tibor Szamuely. This work is a fantastic cultural study of Russia. It nicely fills in the cultural gaps in Richard Pipes more political/military trilogy on Russia. (Although I'm just in the first section of the book, so far it seems like the best possible source for understanding why Ayn Rand hated the culture of Russia so completely.)
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