Does anyone else read? (477 hits)
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Submitted by McMuffin (View user info) at 2004-04-14 10:41:41 EDT
I just wanted to know, beyond anything on the internet, and in magazines, does anybody read anymore?
I read on a frequent basis, but I seem to be the only person who I know does this.
Any times I have experinced anybody else reading, it was because they had to, Schoolwork etc.
So, I pose the question, DOes anyone read for fun anymore?
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Submitted by sebcharrot (user info) at 2004-04-14 15:47:05 EDT (#)
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-2 for a stupid question, but +1 for a good conversation starter
There's no substitute for a good book in your hands. You can't simulate what it feels like to turn a page, or to feel how close you are to the end, and the suspense as you have to stop reading for a second to jump to the next page. Not to mention the fact that it doesn't fuck up your eyesight nearly as much as e-books.
Unless you're on a sunny beach. Stay away from sunny beaches if you want to read your book; it imprints the words onto your eyes, and HURTS.
JRR Tolkien,
Dean Koontz,
Ian Rankin,
Terry Pratchett,
Oscar Wilde,
Douglas Adams,
Ian Banks.
All kickass writers.
Submitted by legallady (user info) at 2004-04-14 14:15:59 EDT (#)
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I read an average of 50 books a year.
Along with surfing net and magazines. I try to avoid TV.
Submitted by I_Have_a_Kristen_Fetish (user info) at 2004-04-14 11:52:57 EDT (#)
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I used to enjoy reading... But, like most things, school has killed that desire. ODU must have the worst textbooks for their classes. Period.
Submitted by KoolWang (user info) at 2004-04-14 11:51:07 EDT (#)
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Want to touch my weiner?
Submitted by spacemonkey (user info) at 2004-04-14 11:46:36 EDT (#)
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Yeah, some of my favs. are Palahniuk, H.S. Thomson, Vonnegut, Poe, and since someone mentioned comics i'll add Harvey Pekar.
As far as greedy money-grubbing novelists go, I would actually say that I like Crichton the best. King is ok, but who I really hate is Grisham. Fuck him and his predictable courtroom dramas.
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2004-04-14 11:38:30 EDT (#)
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Best books ever:
Middlesex
The Crimson Petal and the White
I mean, no... Only Losers read!!
Submitted by dohnuts (user info) at 2004-04-14 11:29:23 EDT (#)
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Thank god for the written word!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky is my all time favorite writer, and Crime & Punishment and The Idiot are my two favorite books.
Just finished reading "The Rasputin File" and "Wicked".
Submitted by triliad (user info) at 2004-04-14 11:29:10 EDT (#)
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"and did I mention Stephen King?"
Fuckin' A.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-04-14 11:28:42 EDT (#)
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Does Penthouse Letters count as reading?
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2004-04-14 11:27:33 EDT (#)
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Comics are better, they have pictures and less words to hurt my thought meats hur hur hur I play Bass you know? Can you guess? durrrrrrr *drools*
Seriously I'd rather read something by Garth Ennis than that tool Chriton any day.
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2004-04-14 11:23:07 EDT (#)
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Raymond E Feist, Dan Abnett, William King... They're my favourites.
Submitted by mystiamoon (user info) at 2004-04-14 11:17:55 EDT (#)
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Dean Koontz's The Bad Place, soooooo sooooo great. I was late for work because I could not put it down.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2004-04-14 11:13:17 EDT (#)
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no
he's worse because he's made millions od dollars doing it, the cunt.
Submitted by iamhewhoisnot (user info) at 2004-04-14 11:11:02 EDT (#)
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but he wrote about dinosaurs...i mean come on....DI-NO-SAURS....and he kills black people...
is he really that bad?
yes
Submitted by potatomanjack (user info) at 2004-04-14 11:09:41 EDT (#)
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Yes, I read. I always have 2 books going.
Great Authors I recommend to all that have yet to be mentioned a great book by them:
Pat Conroy: The Prince of Tides
Wally Lamb: I Know This Much Is True
Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2004-04-14 11:06:26 EDT (#)
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Chriton writes some of the most clished crap I've ever had the displeasure to read.
Oh look, all of his male charcters are fundamentally flawed, weak characters who are either
1:Self serving bastards
or 2:Need a woman to help them do everything.
Whereas his female characters are strong and supposedly willful but who really just want to be able to behave like a real woman but can't because it's a man's world.
Frankly I find his work insulting to both sexes.
Submitted by iamhewhoisnot (user info) at 2004-04-14 11:02:14 EDT (#)
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What about Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz, and James Patterson: the literary greats from a era lacking greats, an era that saw a book's/author's ability to be sold to the somewhat literate masses finally take its rightful place amongst the other criteria normally used to rate the written arts...
i know for sure that i am much happier now that commercialism has invaded this space too
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experience the jersey blonde before it gets dirty!
Submitted by AlwaysAnEagle (user info) at 2004-04-14 10:58:57 EDT (#)
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Yes sir. I am addicted to the written word. Are you looking for suggestions, or just for a straw poll?
I read the New York Times and Washington Post each day, the Boston Globe on Fridays, and the Washington Times on Thursday. I also read Newsweek and Time, and I read for fun whenever I have time. I always have a book on me when I ride the Metro...today it is The Ugly American by E. Burdick, a re-read.
Submitted by TaK (user info) at 2004-04-14 10:58:27 EDT (#)
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Yes, absolutely.
It is my opinion that you cannot write if you do not read. I'm not -2ing
this because I worry about the amount of people who don't read too, and fear
that e-books and the like may overtake the turning of a page in the near future.
But, you could have done a lot more with this. Like tell us what you like
to read for instance, or something. Not just a question.
Some authors I enjoy:
Stephen King, Ayn Rand, Carl Hiassen, Douglas Adams (RIP), Christopher Buckley,
Hermann Hesse (RIP), Richard Matheson, Chuck Palahnuick, Brian Stableford,
Faulkner, Dickens, Tolstoy, Hemingway, George Carlin, and did I mention
Stephen King?
~TaK~
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2004-04-14 10:57:37 EDT (#)
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Voraciously.
Submitted by beefstick86 (user info) at 2004-04-14 10:54:01 EDT (#)
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I read all the time. Books are better than TV. They stimulate your imagination and keep your brain on the edge. It is a neccesary part of life for me. It is also a getaway from reality. When I'm having a tough time in life, I like to pick up a good book and forget about what is really going on. Some excellent authors that I suggest:
James Thurber
Ernest Hemingway
Edgar Allen Poe
J.R.R. Tolkien
There are many more, but for starters...
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2004-04-14 10:53:36 EDT (#)
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yes