BOOKS...

[thaibound]

(kahuna @ Jun. 15 2010,07:18) For you guys who claim they don't like to read or don't have time or just don't, pick up any book by either of my two favorites...Tom Robbins or T.R. Pearson...
I can guarantee, love em or hate em, you won't be bored...

thanks, Kahuna
since Tom Robbins is my atf and i've never heard of T R Pearson, i just googled him to discover he was born but just a few miles and a few years from me.
i'm still amazed there can be so many fine writers that not only have i never read, but i've never even heard of them.
i'm off soon to amazon to prep for my next overseas flight and wonder if you recommend i should start with pearson's 'a short history of a small place' or something more recent?

[kahuna]

Another Southern Boy...Why is it that many of our "best" writers come from the South...

A Short History of a Small Place is a marvelous piece...his first novel as I recall... but my favorite for multiple reads is Cry Me a River...A lot of laugh out loud stuff...and sometimes very touching...

[Tomcat]

(Snick @ Jun. 17 2010,08:41) ps. You should get an iPad the way you travel, I'll copy you my 3000 EBooks

Thanks for that Snick, bear it in mind. maybe by August ill have one

Im not really a luddite but IPad may be a bit clinical for me. All my Conans have the great artworks by whatshisname .. same same for the Sci Fi books, they have some great artworks. ( another thread i think for the Artwork)

They say dont judge a book by the cover but i am a sucker on that count

[Snick]

Frank Frazzeta (R.I.P.)

[Torurot]

Books have a feel and a smell. Sticking in multiple bookmarks etc. Easy.

[PigDogg]

(kahuna @ Jun. 16 2010,18:42) Another Southern Boy...Why is it that many of our "best" writers come from the South...

Not sure but it seems to be so.

On my list 3 of the 4 are from the South.

[Chinaman]

Some months back when someone asked me what I though of e-books and whether I would care reading them, I gave the thing a miss preferring the feel and the entire experience of a real book ... BUT

I just started to read a book in pdf format on my little iPod Touch and I have to say that I LIKE IT.

1. One can "steal" books off the net
2. no additional weight
3. although I find it harder to read small print on paper, it seems no problem on screen
4. cuz that little thing is so light, reading in bed or on the loo is no problem either
5. it's easy to store quite a number of yr favorite reads on whatever e-device
6. even if I spilled some coffee onto the screen, it will not stain the "paper"

The iPad will be even better, in part. 4 mags ...

Amen
CM

[strocube]

I voted compulsive reader.
I absolutely LOVE books. I'm one of those people that is always reading a book. If I notice that I'm about to finish one and I don't have another one ready to go I start to panic.
Amazon fucking loves me.
How anyone can say they don't like to read is just beyond me.

[JaiDee]

(strocube @ Jun. 18 2010,11:19) How anyone can say they don't like to read is just beyond me.

I'd agree with that, especially adults.

 I mean, when you are 15 and forced to read a book, I can understand hating it;  but as adults, we should all enjoy the act of reading IMO, it fills our heads with knowledge and takes us away to other places without even leaving the living room.  Alex Trebek from the Jeopardy show has said many times that the people who do the best on his quiz show are the people who are compulsive readers; they also have better vocabulary's.

    The thing I REALLY can't understand is when someone sits next to me on a long-ass plane ride and has zero to read;  here I am with 3 magazine's and a good book just to take me from Detroit to Tokyo then on to BKK while the guy next to me just thumbs through the Delta in-flight magazine while on the tarmac and then has nothing for the rest of the flight and looks bored and restless while I am passing the time much better and off in another world of my own. Reading makes long plane flights, days at the beach, and nights when nothing is on the tube much, much better.

[Lefty]

(PigDogg @ Jun. 17 2010,17:16)

(kahuna @ Jun. 16 2010,18:42) Another Southern Boy...Why is it that many of our "best" writers come from the South...

Not sure but it seems to be so.

On my list 3 of the 4 are from the South.

I read a book once written by some Southern writer, but I forget his name. It had a yellow background cover and was kind of thick, like maybe 300 pages. I don't remember the plot exactly, but I think it was about some poor people.

[Lefty]

(JaiDee @ Jun. 18 2010,11:43)     The thing I REALLY can't understand is when someone sits next to me on a long-ass plane ride and has zero to read;  here I am with 3 magazine's and a good book just to take me from Detroit to Tokyo then on to BKK while the guy next to me just thumbs through the Delta in-flight magazine while on the tarmac and then has nothing for the rest of the flight and looks bored and restless while I am passing the time much better and off in another world of my own. Reading makes long plane flights, days at the beach, and nights when nothing is on the tube much, much better.

Some people are into meditation too ya know.

[JaiDee]

Those meditating people look like they are trying awfully hard [and usually not succeeding] to sleep.

[Lefty]

you do close your eyes to meditate. I think it would be good for you. Help you get in touch with the inner Jai Dee.

[thaibound]

(Lefty @ Jun. 18 2010,16:40)

(PigDogg @ Jun. 17 2010,17:16)

(kahuna @ Jun. 16 2010,18:42) Another Southern Boy...Why is it that many of our "best" writers come from the South...

Not sure but it seems to be so.

On my list 3 of the 4 are from the South.

I read a book once written by some Southern writer, but I forget his name. It had a yellow background cover and was kind of thick, like maybe 300 pages. I don't remember the plot exactly, but I think it was about some poor people.  

was it jimmy carter's 1978 budget proposal to congress?

[JaiDee]

(Lefty @ Jun. 19 2010,09:13) you do close your eyes to meditate. I think it would be good for you. Help you get in touch with the inner Jai Dee.

If you had even a minor, tiny inkling of just how close I will be coming to my inner self, as well as becoming one with the universe and all things in it over the next 5 or 6 weeks, you would be simply amazed Lefty.

I will be seeing and experiencing things which are way beyond description; simple meditation can't get anywhere near that, trust me.

 Anyway, wasn't the topic on non-reading types trying to get to  sleep on an airplane??  If you are trying to tell me that more than  2 or 3  people are "meditating'' on a 12-hour plane ride I'd say you were crazy!  wait a minute, I say that anyway.......