Types of Books

The only category among them thar choices that I have no interest in whatever is in the self-help how-to category, If I can't help myself, ain'y no book gonna do it for me. And if I want more insights into myself, my behavior, etc., I have to look within myself not accept the opinions of a pop psychologist (or even a serious shrink, for that matter). I'll pick up a how-to book just to look up something (like how to rewire a a light switch from a one-way to a four-way connection), but that's not reading. That's research.

EhBeth, I have it, but haven't actually read it...
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Tommy - this wa all I found that Craven had not.

good luck!

Deb

I would recommend the books of David Lodge to anyone who isn't familiar with his work.

On the other hand, I wouldn't recommend such to those who know him already. Wouldn't be much point, would there?

http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i10/10a01401.htm

Debacle- There is a skewed logic in your premise, but I still haven't figured it out!!!

On closer examination of the syllogism, Phoenix, I must acknowledge it does limp with a slight tautological bias. For to argue otherwise I would either:

(1) risk showing myself guilty of what I believe the logicians term ignoratio elenchi,

or else, Heaven forfend,

(2) accuse you of making an argumentum ad hominem.

You both better watch out or I will hit you with the dreaded tu quoque!

I can see I am going to have to get hold of this man's books!

Forever rising from the ashes . . .
As our astute friend Phoenix has noted, tastes change with your age . . . fiction does not much interest me of late, and my reading remains almost exclusively in the realm of history and biography . . . once an avid science fiction fan, the last such book i've read was The Boat of a Million Years, and i found myself critiquing the work as i read it--on the whole, i found much to complain of in the work . . . I was once a fan of Thomas Pynchon as well, and couldn't get past the first few pages of the last book of his which i picked up . . .

Old age is hell, and i say that having only just arrived . . .

okseeyahbye

S

Debacle, Your logic on Lodge is flawlwss. What a mind!

Don't mind Debacle, Hazlitt. He's (mostly) harmless.

I have just started "A Bright Shing Lie"

I Can't spell - "A Bright Shining Lie"

Merry Andrew, I agree with you that self help books are worthless, at least for me. For one thing, I'm too old to worry about self improvement. If I'm not satisfied with myself now, I never will be. I certainly acknowledge that I have imperfections, but I don't really care.

I wrote a short story "The Rosary" - a couple of years ago. I sent it to Misti fior a review - I think she was positively non-committal about it!

I voted for Fiction.... more specifically, I love a good mystery. Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James. On the lighter side, Janet Evanovich. And on the side of the tough female heroine, Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, Sara Paratsky. And, of course, The Dog Lovers Mysteries by Susan Conant.

I'm currently reading "White Oleander", before I see the movie.

Previously, I read "Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood", before I see the movie.

Voted fiction but it was a heard task to choose. But if I could only ever read one thing it would have to be fiction because I believe all fiction is based some where in the reality of the writer and is the history and biograpical knowledge within that individual. So voting for fiction was a vote from my point of view.

Currently reading Selected Non-fictions of Jorge Luis Borges edited by Eliot Weinberger and Back \ Slash by William H. Lovejoy. However, I am about to embark on the Lord of the Rings and from what I have been told that will be a read I cannot stop until finished and may have to read the series more than once.

I answered "non-fiction" because I am a huge fan of comedy, science fiction, biography, and fantasy. For any of these to make sense, there must be a reference point based in "reality". Once one knows about history, reality, logic, psychology, sociology, etc. they it is easier to creat your new 'world' because there is a common reference point for the author and the reader.

I can take off in my imagination and use my creativity to heightened effect with the inspiration of 'non-fiction' "fact".

"positively non-committal" Tommy? You've got the gift, all right.

Favorite Fiction?



My favorite fiction : mysteries and spy stories.

Reading?
I love adult comics.