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Reader Memer, Meder Reamer
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altfriday5:
1. Do you read for recreation?
Oh yes.
2. What sorts of things do you read? Fiction? Nonfiction? What category or genre? Long pieces? Short? Books? Magazines? Web pages?
Non-fiction: history or military affairs, I also like memoirs of ordinary soldiers. Fiction: SF from my favourite writers (J.G. Ballard, William Gibson, Theodore Sturgeon, etc.) or cheap crappy magazine SF from old magazines from the 1950s and 60s (I have a substantial collection).
3. Does your mood (day-to-day), circumstance (week-to-week or month-to-month) or lifestyle (year-to-year) influence the reading choices you make?
Hard to say, probably my mood more than anything else influences my immediate reading choice. I actually don't get much time for sustained reading, usually an hour or less before bedtime when I am not at my most attentive.
4. What function does reading hold for you? Escape? Learning? Companionship? Imaginative voyage? Other?
Information, amusement, confirmation of my prejudices, sometimes nostalgia - reading a book I've had for a while sometimes brings back the feeling I had when I first read it.
5. What, if anything, that you've read in the last year or so stands out as particularly excellent reading?
I'll have to think about that. I started many excellent books, but time and irregular schedules prevented me from finishing most of them. Rip it Up And Start Again was probably the best, The Four Agreements made me feel a bit better for a while, I started Freakonomics and Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife... today I bought the new Army/Marine Corps Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency.
altfriday5:1. Do you read for recreation?
Oh yes.
2. What sorts of things do you read? Fiction? Nonfiction? What category or genre? Long pieces? Short? Books? Magazines? Web pages?
Non-fiction: history or military affairs, I also like memoirs of ordinary soldiers. Fiction: SF from my favourite writers (J.G. Ballard, William Gibson, Theodore Sturgeon, etc.) or cheap crappy magazine SF from old magazines from the 1950s and 60s (I have a substantial collection).
3. Does your mood (day-to-day), circumstance (week-to-week or month-to-month) or lifestyle (year-to-year) influence the reading choices you make?
Hard to say, probably my mood more than anything else influences my immediate reading choice. I actually don't get much time for sustained reading, usually an hour or less before bedtime when I am not at my most attentive.
4. What function does reading hold for you? Escape? Learning? Companionship? Imaginative voyage? Other?
Information, amusement, confirmation of my prejudices, sometimes nostalgia - reading a book I've had for a while sometimes brings back the feeling I had when I first read it.
5. What, if anything, that you've read in the last year or so stands out as particularly excellent reading?
I'll have to think about that. I started many excellent books, but time and irregular schedules prevented me from finishing most of them. Rip it Up And Start Again was probably the best, The Four Agreements made me feel a bit better for a while, I started Freakonomics and Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife... today I bought the new Army/Marine Corps Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency.
