People really respect that, they really do.
It has been a busy year. I have had to read The Beach, American Psycho and A Clockwork Orange - all at the last minute. But I'm not going to be caught out this time. The latest big film is Gladiator , so I'm packing all 13 volumes of the unabridged Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. They are going on a separate flight.