Crime and Nostalgia

1. CRIME
From Hell (Alan Moore)
'Jack the Ripper' has to be one of histories most famous criminals. There are many theories on who he was, and this is one of them - delivered through the means of a graphic novel. Moore has done an incredible amount of research into the Whitechapel murders....and even if you don't agree with his thesis (I'm sold on it) this is an incredible piece of literature. The drawings are dark and brilliant (and apparently the artist has permanent black hands for his effort).

2. NOSTALGIC
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupery)
For two reasons:
i). I was read this on my year 9 school camp, by my camp instructor whom I had a bit of a thing for.
ii). This book is all about the mind of the child. How they see things so simply...how as adults we get carried away with silly unimportant things. He even dedicates the book to his adult friend...when he was a child -'the little boy from whom this grown-up grew.'