The annoying thing about reading is you can never get the job done...I was flicking through 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (you should be aware that the task set by the title is by definition impossible, because at least 400 of the books suggested would kill you anyway), but reading begets reading-that's sort of the point of it, surely?-and anybody who never deviates from a set list of books is intellectually dead anyway.