Reading books is good, Discuss!!

[Hopper]

So just wondering if anyone else reads Harry Potter. I just kicked back the new one and it was pretty good, but suprising. I also picked up some guy Tredau(sp?) "Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About". Only like 50 pages into it but it seems pretty interesting. Talks about how in america there are cures for all these diseases but the FTC(federal trade comission) and the FDA(food and drug administration) won't allow them because they are not lisenced as a drug. He gives a lot of facts and says the he is not a medical doctor up fron't but merely a researcher. From what I have seen on tv and read so far it makes a hell of a lot of sense. The people in the US have a pretty clean life except for fast food and yet we get sick a lot more than other people. And if you look at animals in the wild, they don't get cancer, asthma, or arthritis. It should be interesting to what I can find out.

[Shane_Bos]

I dont read books as i dont often have time to kick back and read. There are other things i would rather do before i would be tempted to pick up a book (unless its in my way, or its edible). I would like to though as there are obvious benefits to reading a good book. Maybe if i was to start i would rather read then do other things but at this moment in my life, i dont really want to find out.

[Valk]

I dont read books as i dont often have time to kick back and read.

What about that "I'm bored"-thread a while ago?

[Shane_Bos]

Yeh but this week ive been really busy and im afraid if i pick up a book, ill get too into it and end up missing out on other things. Everything has a cost in terms of another thing. Quite often, visiting CC means sacrafising something else, and that used to be my PE routines. Its like when you buy a new computer game and you end up playing that for hours on end for days and then you realise that there was alot more productive stuff you couldve been doing. O well, maybe when i have fewer comitments.

[Valk]

But thinking like that isnt very uplifting isnt it?
If you think like that, then all your freetime should be devoted to doing the things you love the most or doing things you've always wanted to do.
And very few people do that.

[Bobo]

I enjoy reading, and I do loads of it. I read of course the mandatory books from the university, but I also read alot of scientific stuff, and sometimes fiction too. A good book is always ten times better than a movie in my opinion. When I read, it should be very quiet (or silent classical music in the background), and after 10-15 minutes of reading (without interruptions) I sort of get sucked into the book. It doesn't feel like reading anymore, I don't think about my eyes going through the lines, I sort of let my imagination do the work and it's like being a part of the story. Then, when the phone rings or something else as annoying happens, it's like waking up from a dream. I love reading, and recommend it to anyone.

[wern]

I only read non fiction

[Hopper]

I am the same as Bobo. Especially when I am reading harry potter books. Or LOTR. Maybe it is kind of dorky that I am 18 and reading harry potter books but I like them so screw all the hipocritical friends I know who say it's gay but have never read one.
Also I heard somewhere before that reading helps create the folds in your brain, can't reacall what they scientific names are of them from anatomy. Anyway they help you thinks faster and a bunch of cool stuff like that.

[Steve Madden]

i recently read a great book called "The Dante Club" by Daniel Pearlman. Its about a group of famous american writers and poets in the 1800s who have to solve a series of murders taken from the inferno portion of the Divine Comedy. I really enjoyed it

[BIGOKE]

Before Internet and the Discovery Channel books were the only way to experience adventure and history. Books that impressed me were Rich Man Poor Man, The Bourne Identity, Empire of The Sun, and When the lion Roars.

[Spike]

silent classical music

That's the best sort, usually. :lol:

I usually read some non-fiction for 30 minutes before going to sleep to switch my brain off.

[Bobo]

:x I meant with low volume, not zero! :lol:

[smooth]

Sometimes with books that provoke thought, it stimulates my mind so much that i stop reading and just start thinking about the passage i read for like 15-20 mins!

Stories and the like i can just get immersed in and see it in my head like a movie. While books on politics, religion, etc can't hold my attention(not in a bad way), i mean it just makes me think so much that it takes much longer to finish the first chapter, let alone wholebook :mrgreen
Right now Mao Tse-Tung: an anthology of his writings, then imma read the dialectic of sex:the case for feminist revolution.

This hopefully will be a productive month

[G-Spot19]

I am the same as Bobo. Especially when I am reading harry potter books. Or LOTR. Maybe it is kind of dorky that I am 18 and reading harry potter books but I like them so screw all the hipocritical friends I know who say it's gay but have never read one.
Also I heard somewhere before that reading helps create the folds in your brain, can't reacall what they scientific names are of them from anatomy. Anyway they help you thinks faster and a bunch of cool stuff like that.
Man, fuck them. I'm 20 and i love the Harry Potter series. I just read the Half Blood Prince and loved it. Except for the huge twist that was promised and boy did it hit hard. Harry Potter is getting very dark. Steven King even said this isnt a childs book anymore. Tell them to pick up a copy and read it then come degrade you. Its not dorky at all my friend, just your someone that appreciates an excellent series.

[BIGOKE]

I've never read Harry Potter but the movies were interesting though. Challenges the imagination a bit. Probably a bit too influential, but WTF. Who cares? books are inspiring to a lot of people. Books can conjure up sights and sounds and smells etc that sometimes movies cant. Books entice you to use your imagination. Movies just show you in a few seconds what a writer will take 2 mins to describe. Books are good, and good writers are even better.

[G-Spot19]

A very big Aman!

[smooth]

Never was interested. I read stuff more for my education or things i can put to use. Like religion to be more spiritual, etc. I don't see how reading Harry Potter can make me a better person, unless the magic spells work. :shock:

[G-Spot19]

If it did, i'd be using Avada Kedavra every day. :twisted:

[smooth]

the hell is that

[G-Spot19]

The unforgivable curse. INSTANT DEATH!!!!! :twisted:

[wern]

Pfft, you coldn't use that on me, because I am wearing the shield of Thoralax and the boots of Osrabadar.

[G-Spot19]

Hate to break it to you but no magic ever know or that ever will can repel the curse and Merlin himself would fall at its hands. The only thing that can shield it is unconditional love! So tremble my friend...TREMBLE :twisted:

[wern]

PS I made those items up

[G-Spot19]

Nice imagination. Sounded like something out of a dungeons and dragons type of a game.

[Shane_Bos]

Unconditional love for what?

[smooth]

lmao at you making those items up i thought they was really from book or something. i was like these harry potter fans crazy

[wern]

I've got this funny clip about it, btu I can't find it. I'll try to find it and post a link later today

[Shane_Bos]

Is it...

this one (http://gprime.net/video.php/magicmissile)

I think i posted it on here before but i cant remember :?

[wern]

Hahahah Thats The One


Legend!!!

[G-Spot19]

Reno 911!!! Great show. Best slapstick cop show out there. :lol:

['TheBugKahuna']

So...after I am finished reading Potter, I plan on reading another book. Anyone know of any great books to read?

And G, Potter is definitely addicting. I was going to read before I went to bed last night. I was planing on reading only a few pages, however, I could'nt stop myself. I had to finish the book. Read over 200 pages before I could fall asleep.

Now I am reading the fifth one. These books are like crack.

[wern]

read The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump

[G-Spot19]

If you get the new one, try not to curse JK Rowling and throw the book into the fire. It is a great book, but you will know what i mean when you read it.

[Valk]

So...after I am finished reading Potter, I plan on reading another book. Anyone know of any great books to read?


Nope, if you have read Potter you have read all the good books there are. :lol:

['TheBugKahuna']

Nooooo!