What's your favourite book or comic of all time and why?

Without a doubt it has to be Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone for me it was probably one of the first full length books that had ever read and I was definitely hooked to the point where I just wanted to keep reading so that is something that I will never forget. My love of reading probably started from reading the first Harry Potter and it only increased with each other book in the series after that the story was so gripping to me that I couldn't put the books down and would read them cover to cover pretty much without stopping, even now I could read this again and again and it would still hold its charm that I first experienced when I was just a kid.

You're a wizard Harry.

My favourite book is toxic people, dealing with dysfunctional realtionships by Tim Cantopher. This is a book that goes into detail about negative people, narcacisst, gaslighters, abusive people, toxic partners and work colleagues etc and all the negative impact they can have on you. If you imagine being around someone and poisonous gas come's out of their mouth, you wouldn't stay around them because you would get poisoned right? This book goes into detail about how to recognise toxic people around you, how to implement boundaries to protect yourself and your own mental health! Metaphorically giving you a gasmask to help protect yourself against those people!

It's really helped me with some difficult situations throughout my life, highly recommend for everyone

The Lord of the Rings might be my favorite books of all since it was the first "big" books i actually read by myself.

I had heard The Hobbit on the radio and pestered my father to read LotR to me but it took way too long, so I found the books in his bookshelf and read ahead.

I also promptly made myself cry when I found out Boromir died so it might have traumatised me a bit too, but once i read the books I started borrowing the audio books from the library to bring on vacations every year. It was a absolutely massive book of tapes for my walkman😆

Favourite Novel?

1Q84 by Haruki MurakamiA little bit of a cheat as 1Q84 is broken up into three novels so hopefully it is still valid. Although the title harkens to the Big Brother dystopian novel, the actual story is far from it. It is about two different people: a talented child that grows up to be a ho-hum math tutor and a lady that moonlights as an assassin. They both get stuck in a parallel world (one with two moons) and the story is about how they are to come together and escape back to our world.

I feel this is Murakami's best work. It focusses a lot again on the everyday life of these characters carrying them from travelling, cooking, getting into relationships, listening to music, but then pulls you along with the mystery of the lady's next assassination target, the man's past and how it psychologically affects him, and of course, when they realise they are not in the real world and how to get back.

I have fond memories of this book as during a teenage summer I was working as part of an internet company packing their goods for shipment. Manual labour for some extra cash to spend on a summer music festival. There wasn't a TV in the staff room, and I couldn't afford a phone with access to the internet so I had this novel to keep me company through the staff lunch breaks. It really captured my imagination and made those breaks fly-by. So much so that I used to sneak out for restroom breaks just to read a couple more pages.

Fun fact: the number 9 in Japanese is 九 and pronounced as Kyuu or Ku i.e. like Q. So the title serves as a sorta pun of the famous George Orwell novel

Scott Pilgrim vs the world is the best series I have read.

Scott Pilgrim is a 6 book series by Bryan Lee O'Malley. The books follows the titular Scott Pilgrim that has just started dating Ramona Flowers. But if they wish to continue dating Scott must defeat the "Leagues of Evil Ex's" which is a group of 7 of Ramona's past lovers in a mission to control her future love life. The story may sound simple at face value. Scott just need to fight 7 Exs and he just gets the girl. Wrong.

The parts where the story shines is the character work done. Scott is an awful person.He's a cheater, a liar and takes advantage of people but thoughout the story he fights his inner demons (literally) and becomes a better person for Ramona and the people he has affected.

Scott's character isn't the only piece of character work in the book series. Ramona and scott friends all get development (development that unfortunately the movie adaptation couldn't catch all of).

Although the books have a light hearted tone alot of the time it doesn't be shy to be serious and it won't talk down to the audience it treats you as an adult, just like how the characters treat each other as adults.

And if 6 books isn't enough, there is a movie directed by Edgar Wright (he was the director of Shaun of the Dead), a game development by ubisoft and a full anime on netfix animated by the studio that worked on devilman crybaby. If you have plans to check out the anime I beg of you to read the books first as I like to think of the anime as a companion piece to the books/film.

Scott Pilgrim is a wonderful piece of fiction and I read it at least once a year. Each time giving me a new prescriptive on the characters. Please if you spare the time to read 6 graphic novels, read scott pilgrim.