The one book that I'd want to share with anybody, and everybody, is James Hilton's marvelous novel, "Lost Horizon." It's been made into a movie and a movie musical as well, and I happen to like both movie versions despite some people dissing the musical as too "plastic" and shallow.

But Hilton's themes of pacifism and peaceful co-existence really speak to me now more than ever, finding that longed for "shangri-La" where people never grow old and spend their days learning and exploring - I think it's a dream we all have inside of us. Well, most of us anyway.

To me it's the epitome of the idyllic society. It's a dream that deserves to be kept alive.