Are you a reader? KARMA winner is Muley Gil

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Simple question, do you like to read. The pleasure I get from reading a good book is beyond measure. I am never without a book and always have several ready to follow when I finish my current book. Reading both The Godfather and Atlas Shrugged at this time.

PM me your address Muley, and I'll get the book in the mail.
 
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Well..yes and no.

I don't really consider myself a devout "reader" because I usually only read novels by Robert B. Parker. I've read almost every one of his books, with the exception of a few "older" Spenser novels. I OWN every Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall novel he's written as well as a couple of others by him that I truly love - All Our Yesterdays and Double Play.

I used to read Dean Koontz and James Patterson, but Koontz got too weird and Patterson doesn't really "write" anymore. I think he gives an idea to a co-writer and he/she writes the book based on Patterson's idea/story.

But I do own a few of Koontz and Patterson's novels as well.
 
Yep, I'm an avid reader...primarily historical non-fiction. Right now my passion is the Civil War. Currently, I'm reading Shelby Foote's "A Narrative" and Stephen Sears' "Chancellorsville" as well as a biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. I just finished Bilby's "Small Arms at Gettysburg" which is an excellent read for any firearms enthusiast.
 
Muddyboot said:
Simple question, do you like to read. The pleasure I get from reading a good book is beyond measure. I am never without a book and always have several ready to follow when I finish my current book. Reading both The Godfather and Atlas Shrugged at this time.
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yes I love to read and I have found that while I only read a few fictions, I read a TON of non fiction because i have found that if you know enough noone can ever lie to you
 
Looking at my posts here, more of a writer. All through school I was a reader, but not much of the textbooks. Then on my boreing job I read a lot. Now retired, I am on this and a couple more gun sites a lot. When I read other stuff its mostly western american history.
 
I enjoy both "ocular" and "auditory" reading.

I generally do my fun reading in a hard print manner. We've got a great library 1.5 miles from my house.

I also belong to audible.com and download a couple books a month to my iPod. I will mostly do history or biographies to listen as I run. At 30 minutes a day, you cover quite a bit of material in a few weeks.

I've completed and really enjoyed a number of tombs that way... which I probably never would have had the patience to complete in print.

I do sometimes download a fun novel to listen to with my wife on a trip or when TV programming is weak.
 
Yep... Ever since grad school tho I have really only read "easy-read" fiction such as modern thriller/mystery/cop novels. Had enough of the thick stuff and read mostly for enjoynment. Newspapers and Magazines on-line for current events...

Here are a few of my favorite writers:
Lee Child
John Sanford
David Baldacci
Vince Flynn
John Grisham
Steve Martini
Greg Isles
Jeffery Deaver
Dean Koontz
Dan Brown
 
I am an avid reader, 2-4 300 page books a week. I have a mass transit commute every morning and afternoon. gives me a solid hour of reading time, and also is usually enough to keep the hobos and wackos from messing with me.

That is awesome that some of you mentioned using a library. The dwindling use of libraries is a sure sign of the decline of western civilization.
 
Also am a fairly avid reader, it does come and go. I will be on a reading kick for several weeks then slow down until something catches my eye and off I go again.
 
I read constantly, for work and pleasure. I own a small publishing company, which takes much of my reading time with whatever manuscript is currently in production. Add looking over new submissions and queries and I'm reading tons.

We're currently putting the final touches on a fascinating historical nonfiction book about the Greek Resistance in WWII, authored by Ron Drez. If you're into WWII or Vietnam history books, you likely know of this writer.

I just finished reading Bill Bryson's "In A Sunburned Country." That guy is so good it boggles the mind. Absolutely spectacular command of the English language. Hilarious, too.
 
No, used to read very little many years ago. don't seem to have the time anymore.

But I do listen to Audible Books that I put on my MP3 player and listen when traveling. All are military history books.

Joe
 
Both my wife and I are avid readers. In fact she is the current President of the Friends of the Library (I'm just a member. I think it's because I have a truck for gathering donations for their bi-annual charity sales.:D)
She is also on the Library Board. We are currently battling the city on loss of library personnel due to budget cuts. <Skip the next paragraph if you don't want to read a rant>

They're about to cut staffing by 50% (4 to 2) from what it was 6 months ago. We are a tourist town that has ~5,000 permanent residents and swells to 15-20,000 in the summer. Police force of 14, Fire/EMT Department of 15, Finance Dept of 8 and Public Works Dept of 36 :eek:. Misc. other depts bring the total city employees up to 92. I wouldn't mind the PW numbers except they don't seem to do much that we can see.
The water is terrible, the "storm" run-off backs up all the time, the roads had so little maintenance that we had to pass a $35,000,000 LID to resurface all of the streets, etc.:mad:

Anyway, sorry for the rant. Back to reading.
I've been hooked on Tony Hillerman for years and really want to thank whoever it was that recommended Steven Havill to me. His Posadas books are great. I'm on the next to the last one published and will be caught up for his new one due out in November.
Other current favorites are David Baldacci, Clive Cussler, Bernard Cornwell, both of the Shaara's, among others that I can't call to mind right now.
I liked Clancy up until he got so political with his personal views instead of writing a good novel.

CW Spook, have you read Chamberlin's "Bayonet! Forward", his reminiscences of the Civil War?
 
If you ever see me without a book, it isn't me.

I concentrate mostly on history, firearms, aviation, computers and foreign languages.

The worst three years of my life were the three years spent in Fremont, Ohio where the closest real bookstore was something like 75 miles one way. Mail order was out of the question. I don't buy $120 books sight unseen. I couldn't even get the New York Review of Books to see what was in print.
 
Oh yeah, just devour them. And since I got a Kindle 2, have been going through them even faster. Lots of free books to download, too!
 
I also read a lot and save information for future use. Why reinvent the wheel? I also have folders with information on certain subjects that I am interested in.

Just got the book Triggernometry by Cunningham. Not a math book but about the gunfighters of the old west.

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Change that to "closest bookstore" and it will explain why I'm so upset about our local library possibly closing. :mad:
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There were two "bookstores" in town. One of them was a little storefront place in the middle of the crumbling downtown. The other was a chain "entertainment" store that sold everything from CDs to guitar strings. The former was a puzzling place. I buy a LOT of the Squadron-Signal aviation and military books. I saw that they had a few of them and asked the owner if they could order more of them. She launched into this whiny diatribe about how much work it was and how she didn't want to order things and have them sit on the shelves, etc., etc., etc. It apparently never occurred to her that I wanted them to READ, not to adorn her shelves. The other place meant well, but they could never get the hang of ordering anything. I ordered "Polikarpov Fighters in Action vol 2". It never came, never came, never came and finally they told me they couldn't get it. I finally bought it somewhere else. Sure enough a few days later, they called and told me that my copy was in. I wound up buying the second copy and giving it to a friend as a gift. I found a hobby shop in Norwalk that would order any of the Squadron-Signal books I could get, but that was it. Anything else I wanted involved a 75 mile drive back to Cleveland to go to Borders. There were no good bookstores in Toledo and no Borders west of Cleveland. Buying a serious gun book required a trip to the OGCA or Berea gunshows.
 
It's great to see so many people still like to read. I encourage everyone I know to read whatever subject interest them. Open up new worlds one page at a time. ( I read that somewhere).
 
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