1. Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” was based on his childhood exposure to chocolate companies such as Cadbury and Rowntree. As a schoolboy he watched them having contests and enforcing strict security measures to insure their chocolate making secrets were not stolen by competitors.
2. C.S. Lewis [...]
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
From this celebrated story of childhood adventure, we get a hybrid game of social engineering and extreme whitewater rafting. Half the game is Mass Effect-style dialogue trees: Pick the right option and you’ll convince the neighborhood kids to whitewash the fence for you; fail and you have to play a 30-minute Quick Time Event. [...]
1. “Bump” first appeared in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare coined a ridiculous number of words, actually, although some historians and linguists think certain words just get attributed to Shakespeare even if he didn’t really invent them.
2. “Runcible spoon” was created forThe Owl and the Pussycat by author Edward Lear. He had no particular meaning for [...]
Winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Jin is known for spare and elegant stories about Chinese culture. His latest novel, ” A Free Life, ” is an epic tale of immigrants in America. His picks:
My Five Most Important Books
1. “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy. It helped me structure [...]