"Oh all sorts." Books is a topic he can warm to. "Action. Adventure on the high seas. The occasional romance. I read the Count of Monte Cristo so many times and Don Quixote and several versions of the Odyssey and the Iliad... I also like Jurassic Park. There are these creatures called dinosaurs- thunder lizards- which don't actually breathe thunder- but cause havoc and eat people. It's a good read."

He's a bit fond of that book, actually, even if he doesn't understand most of it. "Yourself?"