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Good point. My remote cabin has a "library" of - I dunno- I'm guessing 5 to 6 hundred books. All of which I've read several times over the last 40 years. Mostly escapement junk. Maybe 30-50 "thinking books". But who wants to think on vacation..... At home-I've still got - and re-read sections of - some of my college texts.

The question should read "who is a non-reading zero?"

You should see my pile of paperbacks on the shelf and in the storage unit. It's rather impressive if I do say so myself.

Mostly nowadays I read before falling asleep every night. Mostly crime and mystery with a few westerns.

I cheat - the ones I don't want to keep/reread (junk or not) I take into the civilization library and exchange for other books to read which I don't want to keep. They have a couple racks for "exchange books".

It would be wrong not to buy "keepers". Tho judging by what is often on the exchange racks, not everyone feels this way. Sometimes it is hard to find anything at all worth reading, even once, there...

A guy can get the DT's out here in the villages.....

I love to read. Thanks for the tip.

I don't know anyone that doesn't read.....

I enjoy a good book, but they are hard to find.

Three Against the Wilderness is a favorite.

I'm curious on that, too.
I'd be much more embarrassed to admit I played video games or watched a lot of tv. Reading is worthwhile, tv only marginally so. Most of what's on tv isn't worth wasting the electricity to run the blasted thing, let alone watching. Video games aren't allowed in this house. I'd sooner sit with the kids and make mud pies in the cattle yard.

I read 2-3 novels a week, plus newspapers and of course here. I am currently revisiting James Clavels novels of Japan.

Ah, the Shogun series. T, you're a fascinating fellah.

As to the question, I read like I eat, i.e., a lot. And only a jackass would be ashamed of being a reader.

That's impressive, I'm at about one a month. Just finished "Unbroken", good read, I'm sure you already got through it. Louie Zamperini, never heard of him, now he has my utmost respect.

I don't read a lot of books , but will put the time into them now and again. Last one was Unintended Consequences by John Ross , my wife found the pdf and put it on the kindle after someone recomended the book and we saw what amazon was charging for the hardcover version.

I read a ton, but never novels/fiction.

I just never could get in to reading somebody else's mental fabrications, where everything is pre-planned and coordinated, and dependent on other fabrications to continue the "story". They are designed to steer you in a certain direction, or to almost force you to think you know what's coming, just so they can switch it up. Seems like a petty game to me.

Not a slam at those who do; they're just not for me, at all.

I agree, reading is only half of the program, understanding that the author displays a tendency toward liberal policy that views gun-control as a viable crime fighting tool, I tend to not want to pay someone to aadvocate a policy that I pay someone else to oppose. In other words, why pay for a book by an author who supports gun-control when you pay the NRA to oppose it? There are quite a few authors who write nice stories about the outdoors and such but have an underlying tone of tolerance only for those who share their views.In several of the C. J. Box novels he questions the wisdom of allowing civilians the use of firearms for protection but yet arms his hero with weapons.Chris

Winnie... dude... seriously, if you are hanging with guys who think it's lame to read you might want to think about a shift in your buddies.... you want to be an Officer someday right?

I agree with you about the CJ Box books being a good read.

I've read all of the series and don't remember that as something I noticed.


Not saying you didn't I'm saying I missed any such character flaws.

I did not mean anything by the title. It was a joke.

I have no clue what type of imbecile would be ashamed to admit they read.

Anyway CJ Box's books are some of the best I read.

I never noticed that either. Maybe I will look for it while reading it again.

i read, you might also like the Alex Rider series. it starts with Stormbreaker... its about a kid who gets drafted by MI6 in Europe when he is only 15... lots of neat story telling.

Yep, I am up to Gai-Jin again, read them years ago before the Richard Chamberlin Mini-series was made!

Winnie, you just HAVE to read the Capstick & Corbet books. If NOTHING else by them, read Death in the Tall Grass.