I'm not sure if this has happened to you but it's happened a couple of times recently and I thought was interesting.
2007 saw my return to reading... Not so much that I stopped reading all together but I kind of had about 4 years off.
I only discovered reading after I graduated from high school in 2000, mainly because nobody was forcing me to do it(Stubbornness is one of my better qualities.)
So I started to read A LOT toward the end of 2001 till sort of the beginning of 2003. Then all of a sudden "I didn't have the time."
I constantly read magazines and websites. Hell one night I got lost in Wikipedia(The pillar of truth that it is) for 5 hours and only realised I had done so when I looked at the clock: 5:36am. But no books.
I digress...
So last year after the end of the most rewarding and eye opening relationship of my life so far(I learned a lot.) I read Marilyn Manson's biography. Of all the people I expect to feel a kinship with, he was the last person on earth I would have expected. The book was written/edited by/with Neil Strauss. So I read The Game and more recently The Rules Of The Game(Yes I am). And I've felt a very strong connection with the internal dialogue of both of these people. Do you find that happens a lot with certain people's, particularly autobiographical, writing; or is it just me? And who is it for you?
My 'To read' pile(I have this strange rule that books can't live on my bookshelf till they've been read.)
2007 saw my return to reading... Not so much that I stopped reading all together but I kind of had about 4 years off.
I only discovered reading after I graduated from high school in 2000, mainly because nobody was forcing me to do it(Stubbornness is one of my better qualities.)
So I started to read A LOT toward the end of 2001 till sort of the beginning of 2003. Then all of a sudden "I didn't have the time."
I constantly read magazines and websites. Hell one night I got lost in Wikipedia(The pillar of truth that it is) for 5 hours and only realised I had done so when I looked at the clock: 5:36am. But no books.
I digress...
So last year after the end of the most rewarding and eye opening relationship of my life so far(I learned a lot.) I read Marilyn Manson's biography. Of all the people I expect to feel a kinship with, he was the last person on earth I would have expected. The book was written/edited by/with Neil Strauss. So I read The Game and more recently The Rules Of The Game(Yes I am). And I've felt a very strong connection with the internal dialogue of both of these people. Do you find that happens a lot with certain people's, particularly autobiographical, writing; or is it just me? And who is it for you?
My 'To read' pile(I have this strange rule that books can't live on my bookshelf till they've been read.)
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its huge but dont let that put you off....
I feel like I've heard that line somewhere before...