My taste in books tends towards the militant and the imaginative. By that I mean history (military, political, religious) horror, and fantasy (including mythology, spirituality) A few of my all time favourites include Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, Raymond E Feist' Faerie Tale, Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth, and Theodor Plivier's Stalingrad. An historical fiction has not yet failed to catch my interest, and I inhale fantasy like crack, so that I started feeling as if I no longer gain anything by reading the stuff.

I began studying german a couple of years ago, and can now justify reading fantasy again, because the foreign language forces me to read more slowly, keeping a dictionary close at hand. Cornelia Funke's Tintenwelt series has me waiting for the third installment, and I'd love to get ahold of Michael Ende's Die Unendlich Geschicht.

I have a couple friends who haven't enough internet access to become BookCrossers themselves, but they've taken it upon themselves to pass on any books they come across or want to part with to me. So I will register them, and send them out into the world to spread the word. Used books should be free.