Do you read much? Or at all?
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I listen to books mainly now - about 20-25 a year.
With the advent of wireless tiny earbuds, it’s now easy for multi tasking things like yard works, exercising, grocery shopping etc and of course the OG listening to books-driving. Studies show it has the same impact as reading, and I can confirm, it does indeed help your mind relax, opens up creative thought, keeps your vocab fresh and your writing abilities honed same way as if reading with eyes. Heck I could argue in someways even better because there is less skimming or zoning out like you do reading. Often listening to books I have read I hear all sorts of details I missed.
With the advent of wireless tiny earbuds, it’s now easy for multi tasking things like yard works, exercising, grocery shopping etc and of course the OG listening to books-driving. Studies show it has the same impact as reading, and I can confirm, it does indeed help your mind relax, opens up creative thought, keeps your vocab fresh and your writing abilities honed same way as if reading with eyes. Heck I could argue in someways even better because there is less skimming or zoning out like you do reading. Often listening to books I have read I hear all sorts of details I missed.
Typically have one book I’m reading and a different one I’m listening to.
Listen during the day, read in the evenings.
Listen during the day, read in the evenings.
I'm the complete opposite with audiobooks. I zone out listening to them, then when my brain gets back to comprehending what I'm listening to I have no idea what they are taking about
You certainly have to be doing something not requiring language type thinking. So I can’t really work listening to a book because I am reading and writing on other wok related things. But mindless things non language based and you can coast on while listening - like driving, pushing a mower, exercising, grocery shopping etc it’s easy to do.
I have always hated reading. I could never comprehend what I was reading. I always learned better by doing. I found out 2 years ago at 43yrs old that I am dyslexic. Probably explains why I hate reading. Since then I finished my Bachelors Degree and am half way through Grad School with the help of the Kurzweill 3000 app.
Love to read and wish I had unlimited time to partake. My all time favorite book is The Dead Zone by Stephen King.
A few weeks ago I asked a guy who does some work for us what his favorite book is. He teaches creative writing in college. He said Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty. I knew about the tv miniseries of course but never realized it was a book. I bought it and I’m 2/3 through it and it is actually challenging The Dead Zone for my favorite book. It’s amazingly well written. I’d have it finished but I’m trying to savor it because I don’t want it to end.
A few weeks ago I asked a guy who does some work for us what his favorite book is. He teaches creative writing in college. He said Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty. I knew about the tv miniseries of course but never realized it was a book. I bought it and I’m 2/3 through it and it is actually challenging The Dead Zone for my favorite book. It’s amazingly well written. I’d have it finished but I’m trying to savor it because I don’t want it to end.
One of my all time favorite books. It could have been 500 pages longer and I would not have minded one bit. The best written characters I've ever read.
I highly recommend. It sort of had a resurgence a few years back when Tennessee tried to ban it.
Holocaust book Maus hits bestseller list after Tennessee school board ban
Author Art Spiegelman says decision to ban Pulitzer-winning novel that depicts Jewish people as mice and Nazis as cats is ‘demented’
Interesting. I got diagnosed with ADD when I was 42. Helped explain a lot about me. Congrats on overcoming, or better learning to live with it. Try forgive yourself and not feel guilty about your prior struggles. You can get pretty sad if you get on the hamster wheel, mulling over what could have been if you didn't have dyslexia. Better to move forward and be amazed with what the future holds.
Try to read a few chapters of the good book a day.
I might need to go and give it a retry. Loved Dead Zone but was never able to get into Lonesome Dove. Been getting more into Cowboy era stuff so might be worth a reboot.
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Lonesome Dove is one of my all time favorites. Love Gus.
I haven't but definitely looks like something I would get into. Thanks !
I’m an avid reader, always have been.
Mostly history, but I also enjoy the spy novels, mystery fiction.
The history I read is very specialized since it involves linguistics and migration.
Mostly history, but I also enjoy the spy novels, mystery fiction.
The history I read is very specialized since it involves linguistics and migration.
Every day. EVERY. DAY.
Not necessarily books (own about 100 give or take, re-read them constantly), but online I'm reading something if an actual book isn't possible time-wise.
You are never, ever too old to learn something new. Keeps the mind active and therefore sharp.
Not necessarily books (own about 100 give or take, re-read them constantly), but online I'm reading something if an actual book isn't possible time-wise.
You are never, ever too old to learn something new. Keeps the mind active and therefore sharp.
Yeah, I read news / articles / work, I presumed OP meant hobby reading. Hell, if folks are posting on here, technically they are reading.
Edit, he actually did say "for pleasure."
Regularly read tech articles, blogs, and documentation for work. Outside of work I tend to go off an on when it comes to reading. I've mostly been a nonfiction fan, read a lot on WWII, old west exploration, arctic travels, and some on sports. Thinking I should mix in a fiction book or two or maybe find some shorter nonfiction as I tend to bog down on some of the longer, overly detailed and drawn out nonfiction books.
I read that at Iowa in the 90s. Maybe it was freshman Rhetoric, can’t remember, but I did read it at Iowa. More people should read that one.
Read it this summer. Was a good read but I found the end not as good as the middle.
Have you read The Cowboy and the Cossack?
There’s a dangerous man on the river tonight, and I doubt your deputy can handle him.
Try to read for at least a few minutes every night. Helps soothe my mind and overcome my borderline crushing insomnia, which I’m enjoying as I type this at 3:43a. Enjoy history and most of all modern fiction classics. I’ve read everything by Hemingway and McCarthy several times over and will probably keep coming back to them until I’m too senile to read.
One downside, those guys ruin most other fiction writing. Can’t really go from Blood Meridian to some jerk off’s latest toilet read.
One downside, those guys ruin most other fiction writing. Can’t really go from Blood Meridian to some jerk off’s latest toilet read.
I can spend weeks reading wikipedia articles on individual subjects - world and US history being the main ones.
Because I spend much of my professional time reading I don’t read for pleasure as much as I used to. But I do try to keep one ongoing for bus rides.
Brian, here’s a serious recommendation you will like:I prefer reading philosophy, non-fiction and biographies.
I don't read as much as I used to because of my cell phone addiction. Does that count as reading?
Mary through the centuries, by jaroslav pelikan.
I read The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates a few weeks ago. Really enjoyed it.
Re-read last week The People's History of the United States again last week. I read this book first time as a 6th grader. Important book and perspective.
Got halfway thru How Basketball Can Save the World a month or so ago before leaving it in a hotel. Just got another copy and restarted. Really enjoying it.
Re-read last week The People's History of the United States again last week. I read this book first time as a 6th grader. Important book and perspective.
Got halfway thru How Basketball Can Save the World a month or so ago before leaving it in a hotel. Just got another copy and restarted. Really enjoying it.
Every morning for maybe 45 minutes before work. I'll read more on the weekends after football season.
I listen to Audiobooks almost exclusively while driving. I have tried when at work doing the mundane tasks or other times while doing something, but I just can't focus. BUT while driving is perfect, I get about 30-40 minutes of listening in per day and haven't hardly listened to the radio in years while in the car.
I go through spirts where I'll read a lot for a month or so then not pick up a book for a couple of months. Just depends on the time of year and what I have going on I guess. Coming up on winter months I'll read again because there isn't a lot I enjoy doing that time of year other then vacations.
I've 3/4s of about 10 books this year. Not sure why I can't pull them through to the finish line. I think part of the problem is about the only reading time I have is at night and I'm asleep after about 5 pages of any book I've tried. Wife reads a ton and is a big influence on our kids reading a ton, which is great.
Currently reading Dr. Zhivago after having seen the movie about a half dozen times over the years. Very tedious. I’m about 2/3 finished and it seems like the story hasn’t even really started yet in comparison to the film.
yeah, i gotta say, i just never quite get why the russians love this book and pasternak so much. (interesting side story - when pasternak died, people would show up at his grave each year to see if his mistress/lara would place flowers, which she occasionally did). way too much of the 'art and the artist' thing.
If light fiction centered on military history is your thing, then I recommend the “Casca” series. Each book is self-contained, though you’ll want to read The Eternal Mercenary first to establish the back story. A serious reader could easily read one of these books in the time it takes to watch a football game. (Side note: the original author, Barry Sadler, was the singer/writer of Ballad of the Green Berets. )
The main character, Casca, was the Roman centurion who pierced the side of Jesus Christ, and as a result is condemned to wander the earth as in immortal until the Second Coming. Each book (not chronological) is set in a military conflict taking place after 33 AD.
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The main character, Casca, was the Roman centurion who pierced the side of Jesus Christ, and as a result is condemned to wander the earth as in immortal until the Second Coming. Each book (not chronological) is set in a military conflict taking place after 33 AD.
Order of Casca Books - OrderOfBooks.com
This is the Order of Casca Books in both chronological order and publication order. List verified daily and newest books added immediately.
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I don't think I'm dyslexic, but I do think I struggle from ADHD. I tend to get about 3 paragraphs in and realize my mind wondered somewhere else about 1 and half paragraphs in. I have to go back and re-read it. Much better from "hands on" learning or being shown a couple of times and left to do it by myself.
Idk if it helps anyone here but you can be the judge.
I found when I do cardio at home (I have a treadmill and bike) that when I listened to music I spent more time skipping songs to find the one I was in the mood in. I made a switch to audiobooks about a year ago and that 30-60 mins really flys by. Plus afterwards you can feel like a superior human being compared to your friends and HBOT posters.
I found when I do cardio at home (I have a treadmill and bike) that when I listened to music I spent more time skipping songs to find the one I was in the mood in. I made a switch to audiobooks about a year ago and that 30-60 mins really flys by. Plus afterwards you can feel like a superior human being compared to your friends and HBOT posters.
