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Great way to pass the frigid winter curled up with a book by the fire.
If you're like most of us with no chance of writing a best selling novel, the next best thing is reading someone else's novel. Here is some... |
Because I just finished "Decider", I'll mention the novels (and non-fiction) of Dick Francis.
The appeal of these horse-racing based adventures is hard to pin down, but I have read them all twice and some more. There are about 40 and make the best long airplane flight, and just plain enjoyable, books ever. |
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Reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. He mixes terrible and beautiful perfectly.
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How is Moby Dick on the bad list?
I mean, yeah, dude spends like 15 pages describing a cloud, but the story is about monomaniacal revenge, and who doesn't like THAT? |
Agreed.
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I loved it but half my class, mostly the girls, thought it was long and dull.
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I look at my shelves and see books on the following:
Aviation The Apollo Project Local History The Cold War Modern History Art Birds and other wildlife Railway Atlases Railway History ... and many other individual titles outside the above categories but not a single example of fiction. I hesitate to admit it, in the polite and august company that is the Cellar, but I couldn't read fiction even if my life depended on it. Sorry about that! :blush: |
Different strokes for... hey, you didn't mention your porn collection. ;)
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A lot of people think that the novel is going away as an art form, partly due to the short attention spans of modern people. We got stuff to do, ain't nobody got time to digest the entire life and motivations of Gatsby.
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Okay then, show your shelves. Here are 3 of mine.
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I'd refute that but it's time for Wheel of Fortune, gotta go. :haha:
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Oh, and our main pair of bookshelves. This has been static for at least a decade now; nearly everything since then has been ebooks and audio books.
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I e-booked for a few years but I really missed the feel of paper. Trees must die for me to be happy.
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I read primarily in bed, while laying on my side, until I fall asleep. e-books are great for that, as I don't have to hold a (most of the time lopsided) book open with the light on. I can read with the light off, and if I stop turning pages then the e-book turns itself off.
Plus, my giant bookshelf is full (my small ones have been for a while). |
Build two stacks of books a foot high and lay a board across, Voila book shelf.
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There's nothing like good literature to pass the time, calm the frayed nerves, and excite the inner child...
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Meryl Streep is looking pretty good for a commie...
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Meryl Streep ain't never looked that swank.
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I like holding a book and flipping the pages. However, I sometimes don't have time to go to the library. Thus, I read on my kindle. It is also thinner and lighter to stuff into my purse. With the quarantine the past month, I borrow library books online.
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I didn't know that was a thing. Cool.
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