Oh boy, this is one I can really get into!

Brien: You are absolutely right, there are a lot of kids my age who don't understand the pleasure of sitting down with a good book. It really is kind of sad, but they've lost the willingness to use their imaginations, and instead want to be force fed by the 'tube.

As for me, I was reading by the time I was 5. I read Tolkiens "The Hobbit" when I was in Kindergarden, and regularly got in trouble for reading during class. I've read all the books in my bookshelf at least 5 times each, and am constantly on the lookout for more. I've found that the library is the best place to find used books, and our local one even has a permanent booksale shelf at the front door. They also hold semi-annual book sales, and if you help set up they give you five free books for each hour you work. I came home lugging about thirty books after the last one!!!

Now, my interests:

The Bible, first and foremost.

Anything by J.R.R Tolkien, Douglas Adams, Ray Bradbury, Issac Asimov, John Grisham, Tom Clancy, Frank Peretti, C.S. Lewis.

Watership Down, 1984, Farenheit 451, Stonewall, most non-fictions... Well, you get the idea. Some might call me a bibliophile, but I guess I don't really mind.

Thanks for letting me go on about this, it's really something I get excited about!

Rory
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hitecdan: Readers make time to read. I am sure that you must read some things besides these posts. If you don't, try small thin, quickly read books. I like short stories for certain times of the day like before dousing the light. A Sherlock Holmes story will do just fine. John Cheever was a good short story writer as is Ray Bradbury. They're cool because they are not forboding like a 500 page biography of James Madison.

Have fun

Brien

 

For those of you good guys who have never had pleasure from Shakespeare, try to find the time to read "Much ado about Nothing" It is one of the lightest and fun filled tomes of all time. It is, for those less inclined to read, in video, with the usual Shakespearean actors whose names, as usual, escape me. I watch it regularly, for joyful entertainment.


Wm
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>Dono: What kind of douments are in that book you are
>reading? Sounds very intersting as source material. Who
>did the compliation?
>Brien:-)
The book is OUR NATION'S ARCHIVE-THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES IN DOCUMENTS edited by Erik Bruun and Jay Crosby, published by Black Dog and Leventhal. It is devided by time starting with "Pre-Columbus-1763:A New World" thru "1975 - 1999 - Modern Times". Each section has over 50 important documents from that period. For example, in "1763 - 1789:The creation of a republic" is "Rules of Civility- George Washington", "Common Sense - Thomas Paine", "I was great and you were little - Stockbridge Indian and so on. All interesting if you enjoy history. It's a BIG book and will take awhile to complete. Contact me if you need more info.
Dono