How many of us have read Tintin books in our lives? Most of us sometime or the other.Those of you who haven’t, please grab a copy today.Believe me, I must have revised the entire series of the Tintin books at least 6 times.Herge has invented such lovely characters that they are an essential part of our lives.i will say lives because I cannot say childhood because so many people still find them enjoyable.Herge has the unique distinction of achieving the perfect balance in making his stories appealing to both adults and children alike.At least once while reading a Tintin book you tend to laugh out aloud at the antics of one of the characters.Or, if you are one of those serious types, you at least smile to yourself.These books have kept me in touch with my childhood.I go crazy over Captain Haddock and his thousands of blistering barnacles.And Bianca Castafiore, the Opera singer who call him everything except Captain Haddock.And those bumbling detective twins the Thompson Twins are simply great.Snowy is very endearing because of his dilemmas over bones.And how can I forget Professor Cuthbert Calculus?The man who never hears anything right?Recently I read that China has finally allowed the legal export of Tintin books into their country.How awful.Imagine so many chinese children missing out on a vital treat of their lives for all these years.Unfortunately Herge expired many years back and the last Tintin book was The Blue Lotus.Now the sleeping giant in me has awakened again.I am once again going to go into my revision mode and start going after these books with a vengeance.May I suggest something?You will find it positively crazy.Leave your personal copies of the Tintin books in your will to your grandchildren and theirs after them.God knows whether the books will be around at that time or not.