What are you reading now?
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A bit embarrassed to admit but my niece gifted me the Hunger Games trilogy on my Kindle.
I started reading the first one yesterday. Well written enough to keep my attention and a fast read.
I avoided the Twilight series/phenomenon but may get hooked into this one.
I started reading the first one yesterday. Well written enough to keep my attention and a fast read.
I avoided the Twilight series/phenomenon but may get hooked into this one.
Man, I am going to feel like a complete idiot for sharing this with you guys. I am a little hesitant.
But, here is the simople truth. I have never read a book. I have read parts of a lot of books, mostly for school, but I have never read from page 1 to page last, of ANY book. I can read a Boating, Motorcycle, or Home Theater type magazine cover to cover the day it arrives in my mailbox, but I have never read a book.
I have tried reading books about things I am interested in like my fave musicians (Stevie Ray Vaughn), I have tried reading books about colorful characters that I think may be interesting (Forrest Griffin and Dennis Rodman), books about Harley Davidson, and books about what I feel is my life's calling, Fire Fighting. I have tried fiction and non fiction. Never finished one.
But, here is the simople truth. I have never read a book. I have read parts of a lot of books, mostly for school, but I have never read from page 1 to page last, of ANY book. I can read a Boating, Motorcycle, or Home Theater type magazine cover to cover the day it arrives in my mailbox, but I have never read a book.
I have tried reading books about things I am interested in like my fave musicians (Stevie Ray Vaughn), I have tried reading books about colorful characters that I think may be interesting (Forrest Griffin and Dennis Rodman), books about Harley Davidson, and books about what I feel is my life's calling, Fire Fighting. I have tried fiction and non fiction. Never finished one.
Srvy
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Randy said:
Now days it takes me forever to Finnish a book after three or four pages im nodding off. Many years of working away from home staring at 4 walls of a Red Roof Inn etc. and staring at the idiot box because you really dont feel like going out to eat and getting bombed with the guys every off hour you take up reading or surrender to the XBOX but I was never a gamer. When you work the the highway construction oil pipelines and electric transmission lines or work for the NGS you do 2 things on the road drink to kill time which I got tired of or find things to pass 3 to four hours before you got to bed. I know my :violin: rant is now over .
This is an amazing and very disturbing story at the same time.
North Korea has a number of concentration camps and unlike other camps we may be familiar with thru history many of the people in these camps were not taken from their lives and placed there but were are born, live and die there never knowing another existence. Born and raised in prison for supposed crimes committed by past family members.
Shin Dong-hyuk is the only person born in North Korean camp known to have escaped, eventually making his way to the US.
mazersteven
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Randy said:
Same here. Reading has never been my thing.
Snowman_
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^^ I've found that it's not such a rare thing. I know several people that say they have never finished a novel including my father-in-law, and he has a Masters Degree.
For me the key to enjoying it was:
1. Don't try to read fast.
2. Don't worry about finishing the book. Eventually you will run out of pages.
Learning those two things are what turned books into an entertainment instead of a chore. :twocents-mytwocents:
For me the key to enjoying it was:
1. Don't try to read fast.
2. Don't worry about finishing the book. Eventually you will run out of pages.
Learning those two things are what turned books into an entertainment instead of a chore. :twocents-mytwocents:
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Finally got this one read this past week:
Jobs really was a complete asshole, glad I never had to work for him. The book was very informative for me however, regarding building a business, building wealth, and how personalities can, and can not, have an effect on climbing the corporate ladder (something I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out these last four years).
Finished it while at my Mom's last week, got the first 1/4 of this one down, very fascinating!
Finally got this one read this past week:
Jobs really was a complete asshole, glad I never had to work for him. The book was very informative for me however, regarding building a business, building wealth, and how personalities can, and can not, have an effect on climbing the corporate ladder (something I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out these last four years).
Finished it while at my Mom's last week, got the first 1/4 of this one down, very fascinating!
Last book finished was Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham. It was fascinating on two counts: one, how similar the conservative/liberal debates were 230-some years ago, to today. Secondly, how close, on several occasions, the infant United States were to falling apart; we really were quite lucky in the early years.
I'm about halfway through Tom Brokow's The Greatest Generation, a book I'm thinking should be required reading for every damn US kid with an iPhone in his pocket and drives a BMW to his junior high school. Also started Charcuterie, the Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing, by Ruhlman and Poleyn. I'll be posting more about this one in the Food forum. :drool:
I've also realized how static my reading has been the last six months; need to log off a bit more (and if Facebook actually starts audio commercials every time you log on, that'll help)
I'm about halfway through Tom Brokow's The Greatest Generation, a book I'm thinking should be required reading for every damn US kid with an iPhone in his pocket and drives a BMW to his junior high school. Also started Charcuterie, the Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing, by Ruhlman and Poleyn. I'll be posting more about this one in the Food forum. :drool:
I've also realized how static my reading has been the last six months; need to log off a bit more (and if Facebook actually starts audio commercials every time you log on, that'll help)
Nice! Well, I can add that I finally finished the entire Wheel of Time - took about 9 months. Reading Butcher's Dresden Files series now.
If y'all haven't read it, the book "Wonder" is a terrific read. It was actually an assignment for my daughter's 4th grade reading class, but it's well worth reading as an adult too.
FYI, we did have a "what are you reading" thread somewhere (which kinda died)... maybe could be moved into this new section.
If y'all haven't read it, the book "Wonder" is a terrific read. It was actually an assignment for my daughter's 4th grade reading class, but it's well worth reading as an adult too.
FYI, we did have a "what are you reading" thread somewhere (which kinda died)... maybe could be moved into this new section.