Adedotun Eyinade started the Pulpfaction Book Club to encourage reading in Nigeria; they organise the monthly book readings at Debonair Bookstores. He tells us about his favourite five books. He had this to say about his love for reading.
I read pacesetters a lot and African Writer Series. They fired my impressionable imagination. Famous Five, Bloodbath at Lobster Close, The Delinquent, Things Fall Apart, Weep not child, Ogboju Ode, Ake, a lot of Cyprian Ekwensi, Eddie Iroh and many more. The were pedantic in a sense. Teaching values and all that. But they provided a prism through which one could engage the world. You had characters that you aspired to and other you were socialized to hate. It would do today’s generation a world of good to aspire to fictional characters of those days than the bland creations of pop culture that exist to annoy and blunt the minds of impressionable young people.
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