Today is our penultimate post of the year, and we're extremely grateful to outgoing Captain of School, George Davies, and Vice-Captain, Will Shackleton, for finding the time (between filming Friday briefings, of course) to answer the book blog's leavers' questionnaire.
What were you reading when you were in the fourth form?
George: Probably not as much as I should have been! Casting my mind back, I do remember this being roughly the first time that I read Catch-22 and some good dystopian novels like Brave New World, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451 during the holidays.
George: Probably not as much as I should have been! Casting my mind back, I do remember this being roughly the first time that I read Catch-22 and some good dystopian novels like Brave New World, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451 during the holidays.
But I think I was mainly in my comics phase during that year, so my enthusiasm for Marvel probably drowned out most other forms of fiction!
Will: A lot of trash crime fiction. My knowledge of corpse disposal was unparalleled as a 14-year-old.
That being said, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie is a masterpiece of mystery and plotting. Just don’t read it late at night – I did and didn’t sleep for weeks…
