Read Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust. Because if you do, you just might end up being taken hostage in the middle of the jungle and forced to spend the rest of your days reading an old man Dickens.
Sounds like a bad idea when you put it like that...
I've never been a person to read books, I can't stay intreasted in them, but to be honest I've never really tried. I blame the new age for this.