I didn't know there were doubts Norton, but his conviction and subsequent pardon were supposedly well documented in the French press of the day, so I wouldn't argue one way or the other
Yeah, apparently some old boy came out and said that he was really Papillon and had the tattoo to prove it. There was a documentary about it that I saw a year or so ago that said that all of the stuff that happened really did happen but happened to different people at different times. I don't know how much I believe all that but I thought it was interesting. Reminded me of how good a story it all is though.
When my daughter bought me a Kindle, my Son-in-Law pre loaded it with over one thousand books. Many of them I'll never read but some have opened up new windows for me. For example the Aubrey/Maturin series. I've added quite a few I already own in print form. It comes in handy when I go on holiday. But I still have my books on the disorderly shelves behind me. They stretch back to the things I read as a lad, Biggles, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ryder Haggard, Conan Doyle etc. Then onto Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Azimov, including some of Azimov's non-fiction - Science for idiots books. Then there are the Nigel Tranter historical novels and what might pass for History books. I regularly re-visit Churchill's 'History of the English Speaking Peoples' On to the more recent additions are the magical works of JK Rowling and JKR Tolkien. Intermixed are books of TV Series such as Alistair Cooke and David Attenborough, a mix of Science, History and Natural History, and of course sporting books, mostly SAFC related. 'The Family', irritated by me not wanting any presents keep buying books that they think I'll like. I can not imagine my existence without book's. Much, perhaps most, of what I read could not be called literature by the purists, but I can live with that. I can happily read the same books many times, (given breaks), such as The Lord of The Rings or Harry Potter, though it's some years since I took a Biggles book down. And to finally answer the question in the title of this thread, it's -- It all depends on the mood I'm in. Often, but not always, my favorite book is the one I'm reading now, or perhaps the one I'm planning to read next.
