from a book industry newsletter...see Perry's last answer....

[Mark Kohut]

  Book Brahmins: Thomas Perry    Thomas Perry is the author of 14 novels, including Edgar-winning The Butcher's Boy and its sequel, Sleeping Dogs; the New York Times Notable Book Metzger's Dog; the five-volume Jane Whitefield series and Death Benefits, Pursuit and Nightlife.  His new book, published by Harcourt this month, is Silence ($25, 9780151012893/015101289X). Here Perry answers questions we pose occasionally to people in the industry.
  On your nightstand now:
 
Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa by Thomas A. Bass 
 
Your favorite book when you were a child:
 
Quest of the Snow Leopard by Roy Chapman Andrews
 
Top five authors: 
 
Faulkner, Austen, Conrad, Melville, Hawthorne 
 
Book you've "faked" reading:
 
I only commit crimes when I won't be caught, although I'm often tempted to commit this one. I almost never read books in the mystery/thriller genre unless somebody asks me to. Writers are all mimics, and I don't want to find myself imitating anybody. When I meet other suspense writers, I often have to confess that I haven't read their work. This policy has accustomed me to enduring long silences while smiling apologetically.    
 
Book you are an evangelist for:
 
At the moment it's Red Leaves by Thomas Cook, which I read a few weeks ago. 
 
Book you've bought for the cover:
 
Probably all of them, without being conscious of it. A book needs to attract my attention among 200,000 others in a large store. But I often read in public places, so it can't have a picture on the jacket of a woman without hers. 
 
Book that changed your life:
 
Recently I finished Adrienne Hall's A Journey North, a book about hiking the Appalachian trail. It persuaded me that I've taken enough long walks in snowy places.
 
Favorite line from a book:
 
"She bestowed plump pears and bright, shamefaced peaches."--Joyce's Ulysses.  I have no excuse for this choice. 
 
Book you would like to read again for the first time:
 
Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day





 
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