Reading is a pleasant past time. There are so many great books to read.
What are some of your favourite books you have read and what do you use to read them?
perhaps an ireader or a kindle? Or maybe you prefer listening to them.
These are great for reading with since you can:
-load as many books as you want to
-adjust the letter size
-read at night without needing to turn on a light so you don’t disturb others.
At at the moment I am reading ‘The Secret Life of Bees’ by Sue Monk Kidd
which is extraordinarily written.
What are you reading right now and what great books can you suggest to the rest of us?
I'm kind of a reverse snob in genres.
As a boy, I read
Heinlein, Asimov, Bradbury, etc.
As a young adult, I found
King and
Koontz. My bookshelves are full of first edition of just about every King and Koontz. When I hit hard times a decade or so ago, I sold several first editions on eBay. Regretted it ever since.
As an adult, I loved anything by
Crichton, Graham Masterton, Bentley Little, and a newer title by Arthur C. Clark called
The Light of Other Days (a really cool book about advanced technology).
I veered off at times such as my
Bonanza days where I read the entire series by
Stephen Calder (sadly, all are OOP now.)
In the non-fiction area, I liked
The God Delusion by
Richard Dawkins and
DMT: The Spirit Molecule by
Rick Strassman. I also loved
The Holographic Universe by
Michael Talbot (a super interesting theory.)
As a senior, things changed when I wrote and published my first novel,
Bad Vibe. It is a science fiction based story involving the first invention of a zero-point energy bridge and I found I had a knack for science fiction.
A long time ago, I had written four screenplays and spent a year trying to sell. This was before the internet had become big and I had little success. Later (only a few years ago), I wrote my second novel,
Iddimu and I also discovered that I had a knack for horror. I had noticed that during the authoring of this second book, I had stopped reading anything. At the time, I didn't think anything of it. Then I wrote
Portal, then
Grief Begets, one sort of a horror scifi, the other a love story with paranormal overtones.
Again, I did not read while writing. Now, after putting all the writing away for a couple of years, I find that when I get the urge to read, I also get the urge to write. One cancels out the other and writing wins. Consequently, I have 3 other works-in-progress. I'll reveal the titles (if anybody cares) as I get further along. I think I may have already done this in an earlier post. Maybe, maybe not. My memory
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That's enough of self promotion. I just wanted to illuminate why I don't read anymore.
