"OK, it is a kid's book. But who cares? I loved it as a child and I still enjoy it. It also allows to procrastinate whilst retaining moral highground. Just what I am doing now, in fact."
"This blew my mind when I read it the first time, then it became confused. And than a friend pointed out that he leans to heavily on Murakami. I still really enjoyed it after the third reading."
"My cooking started with this. My dirty little sectret is that when I wrote up my PhD I only read recepie books in order to relax. And this one is still high up the list."
"This is another jolly classic. Make sure you get a book containing parts 1 and 2. And skip the boring Marlowe, this is much more interesing. Amusing, too."
"You might know Steppenwolf and Siddharta. This is the last oevre of Hesse. Calm, some might say boring, but beautiful. Crisp with a bitter seaweed tang."
"I sometimes like a geeky read, and whilst Banks is positively the Antithesis of Hesse, he laso is crisp with a bitter seaweed tang. I like this one because the AIs are the new humans. Superhumans."
