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OH yes I did exactly the same with the Agatha Christie Novels as you Merlin..about the same time too, I couldn't get enough of them, they were so easy to read...and they were my first real interest in Detective fiction. However I didn't stop at just reading the books over and over..I was hungry for information on the authors too, so I researched everything I could find about Both Arthur CD and Agatha Christie too...all much harder to to back in those pre internet days but fascinating and enjoyable.

I lost my interest in fiction some years later and no longer enjoy anything other than factual reading material...but I still watch Sherlock Holmes occasionally on TV..
 

I'm sorry to hear that you lost the ability to enjoy literature, Holly, that's a big one. I was unable to read much after I became depressed some time ago, after a traumatic event, but it's back now, thank goodness. I wasn't brought up with books or literature and discovered the joy of reading at school and from friends and it has been with me ever since.
 

Josiah said:
Goodness Holly, saying you've lost your interest in fiction is like cutting yourself off from most of the cultural heritage of the English language.
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I was an avid reader all my life Josiah and Cookie from the time I learned to read I devoured books like the water of life. I read literature most of my young life probably right up until my 40;s, I was my American English teachers' star pupil at High School , she was a poet herself who adored the American poets Robert frost and Mark Van Doren and introduced me to them, along with our own Poets, Wordsworth, Burns , Browning, Byron etc ..but now I have no stomach for poetry nor Fiction ..just give me the facts in my reading material .( although that said I do love Memoirs/ letters/ Diaries and some biographies and many of them have more than a little touch of fiction in them):D but that aside no, I'm uninterested now in fictional literature.
 
Holly, that is OK. Tastes change and there's no law that says you have to read fiction. I don't care for poetry myself, but do love autobiographical writing. Sometimes too much of something will really put a person off it forever.
 
That's so true Cookie..

I read every day to this day, Books music and photography are my passion. I don't go one day without reading. Sadly these days if I read a book during the day it puts me to sleep , so I only read when I go to bed. I couldn't possibly not, it would be like not breathing!! :D
 
hollydolly said:
I lost my interest in fiction some years later and no longer enjoy anything other than factual reading material...but I still watch Sherlock Holmes occasionally on TV..
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I am the same as you Holly, I only read memoirs and factual stuff, the fiction attraction faded a few years ago, I am also drifting to more documentary movies, but still enjoy some drama and comedy at the moment.
I have several friends who have also stopped reading fiction. I seem to remember Diana Athill, (see above) mentioning somewhere that she gave up reading fiction in her later years.
 
I think one of the most beautiful features of our mind is how it dims the memories of the horror and sad events while enhancing our good memories.
 
I like to read biographies and history, but I'll always love a good mystery.

My husband much prefers nonfiction, especially biographies, which was why I was very surprised when he read A Casual Vacancy by J K Rowling.

Holly, which Sherlock Holmes do you prefer? For me, Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes.
 
Ameriscot said:
I like to read biographies and history, but I'll always love a good mystery.

My husband much prefers nonfiction, especially biographies, which was why I was very surprised when he read A Casual Vacancy by J K Rowling.

Holly, which Sherlock Holmes do you prefer? For me, Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes.
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I would agree with you there, Brett made a wonderful Holmes, and also the actor who played John Watson, they were both excellent.I don't like the recent Holmes and Watson, Benedict Cumberbatch and the hobbit.
 
I think that the mind does have loads of storage, but that it is stored in layers, the top layer being the things you really need to remember, also want to remember.When we are at a party, we remember the names of the people we like, but not those we are not interested in and so on.
 
Talk about a scare. When at first glance I saw the title of this thread, my mind read it as "an embarrassing emission" !! I thought maybe the OP referred to flatulence...
 

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