obviously the sheock holmes, talk about the o and g.k. chest and is and ther. the father brown mysteries were among the fir mysteries i read. i love mysteries as a kid. in fact your i started off with sherlock wones then father brown and i read agatha christie and when i was in seventh grade, someone told me that crime and punishment was the murder story. at sounded good so i got it and read i in three days and that launch me into reading serious grown of books from that point on because it was ally good and it really is aerrific mystery as well as a great novel. >> in 2009 the book industry is going through great changes. and, your entire career has been in books. what do you see in the future for books as it begins the digital age? >> i have mixed feelings about it. i grew up in t pnts culture. for me coming from a working-class background as for many generations before my income of books being educated through books was the way up and out whereas now computers seem to have replaced that in a lot of toys for kids as the kind of key for success in multiple car