Fighting Fantasy

As a child I hated reading. Really hated it. I couldn’t think of anything worse. I’m sure I was even guilty of saying, “What’s the point in reading a book when you can watch the film?” These days I’ll stop myself from watching a film, or seeing any of the trailers or promo imagery from a film, if I’m really keen to plough through the pages of the book first. There’s nothing worse than having a famous Hollywood face in your head as you read, creating and imagining the characters and scenes of...