As for books, there are waaay too many. Just now i was inspired to write this post because i read that the author of the Artemis Fowl series, Eoin Colfer has written (with permission, of course) the sixth piece of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and i'd like to read both. Both the whole Artemis Fowl series, by now six books, of which i only read the first three, and the new Guide. In addition to these, i'm still i serious lack of classics. That includes Shakespeare and Shelley just as much as his wife Mary Shelley, and all the other old
scary classics. And all the Neil Gaiman books. I wonder if Shiga university library (if i get into that university) has english literature (i have no intentions of reading english classics in japanese), although i don't expect them to have Colfer or Gaiman there…