I'd erase my knowledge of the Lord of the Rings book and film, watch the film first then read the book so that I could state conclusively and without allegation of temporal bias that the films are a lot of bollocks.
> When you get to my age there is no need to erase your memory, nature has already done it for you......... I am now re-reading John Masters' "Loss of Eden" Trilogy which I first read 40 odd years ago, I remember very little of it from the first reading.
Never mind 40 years... I re-read non-fiction books 5 years later and don't realize till about page 200.... it's not getting worse with age though: I've always been dim.
In reply to coinneach: I wouldn't mind being awarded back the equivalent time (allowing for age, perception of timeflow, difference in energy levels etc) that I spent doing "Little Dorrit" at A - Level in the 70s. I reckon I'd get about a year back given what I could have done with the time then!
Perhaps the Aeneid book 1 and book 4 as well. Not that I didn't mind doing them but think of all that youthful energy I could get back and spend now!
Book: Feynmann's lecture on physics.
Film: Hmm, good shout with Eternal Sunshine, but torn between that and Back to the Future II...
Music: Ben Fold's Five, Philosophy
DVD series: Arrested Development (not the Netflix series 4 with fat Tobias and Lyndsey's weird face though).
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