I used to read a lot and enjoyed it, but I think I just somehow forgot about it

nowadays I just read whatever's on this forum, the bbc news site (just because firefox has it a defaulted rss thing or whatever, i live in canada..) or just other random shit on the internet. But I guess those things don't really count.

Oh last summer I was really fucking bored so I re read HOLES in like 2 days

you stole from a charity shop yet your a christian

your going to hell dude

To clarify it was in such terrible condition they were going to throw it away anyway.

I like to read biographies (but only by people who actually knew the guy otherwise it's mostly name dropping of people they barely knew or guesses) for non-fiction.

For fiction I mainly read Charles Bukowski or Stephen King. I know you can make fun of my fiction choices but whatever, they are entertaining enough to keep me reading without necessarily being great literature.

recommend me some good nonfiction books.

What kinds of topics?  All of these are good (a few aren't non-fiction):
http://doktormartini.wordpress.com/booklist/

What kinds of topics?  All of these are good (a few aren't non-fiction):
http://doktormartini.wordpress.com/booklist/

Doktormartini, how to say this... Da Vinci Code? You are too casual martini! You should read more alternative literature!

is maclean's actually any good? it just looks like a canadian time/newsweek

pretty much yeah but I eat that stuff up.  I read Newsweek and Time, too, at doctor's offices (though they aren't nearly as good as Maclean's imho).

For non-fiction, I've read The God Delusion, The Science of Good & Evil, Freakonomics, Cartoon History of the Universe I, II & III, In Praise of Nepotism, Intelligence in Nature, A Short History of Nearly Everything, How to be a Canadian, Dave Barry books and collections, Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw, A Shortcut Through Time, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence, God, the Devil and Darwin, Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine, How to Solve the World's Food Crises and a bunch more, usually along the lines of:

-Science in general
-atheism or secularism
-nature
-intelligence
-evolution
-economics
-humor
-history

I also mostly just read non-fiction. The last book I read was God is Not Great by Hitchens.

How was this, by the way?


EDIT:
Oh yeah, I also read a fair number of game design books, like Theory of Fun in Game Design, Swords & Circuitry, and something like Interactive Storytelling (can't remember the title at the moment)

can't stand anything too esoteric these days on top of all the reading i do for class

I haven't read shit the past several months.  I've read most of Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay, but it's not as good as the show...

I enjoy reading the most when I am busy.  I haven't been busy since I graduated from university.  All I do is play video games.

Why wouldnt you read? Reading is an automatic thing like going to the washroom or staring at hot chicks.. you do it subconsionsly, you are reading this rigth now,also I am incerting subliminal messages into your brain at the moment, have fun trying to bite off your own @#$% tomorow.

No problem.

EDIT: Just a random fact... rpg players actually read more than people who read books.

interesting non-fiction. could be anything but I have a weakness for culture, history or civilizations.

I haven't read a book start to finish in a long while. The last thing I read was the metamorphosis, that was about a month ago, and about two months before that I read the trial. That's pretty much all I can remember - I've made a bunch of attempts since January to read books but I always lose enthusiasm somewhere along the way - sometimes it's 10 pages in, sometimes it's 200 but I never finish, at any rate.

It's terrible. I used to read a whole lot. I have become extremely lazy and no longer put any effort into the things I thought I was cultivating that made me proud of myself.

occasional erotic webcomics

Please feel free to pm.. you know for intelectual purposes.

The only reason I don't read much fiction is because I really have no idea where to begin. Apart from the classics like To Kill a Mockingbird and whatever I really have no idea which books and authors are supposed to be any good. I don't want to just stumble into a book store are take any random book out. It's much easier to find a good non-fiction book that you'll enjoy since all you really need is to have some interest in the book's subject matter. Also I find that non-fiction gets better promotion. I watch a lot of Daily Show and Bill Maher and pretty much every episode has some writer giving an interview and plugging their book, and nine times out of ten it's probably a non-fiction book. Whereas with fiction, if TV is any indication, then the only books released in the last 10 years have been Harry Potter, Da Vinci Code and Twilight.

hit me up sometime for a couple pointers. i could probably think of some shit right up your alley.


i don't read as much as i should anymore. i've got a couple random books sitting around that i've been meaning to read, none that i'm particularly enthusiastic about diving into. i haven't been a bookworm type for ages. usually i just write instead

school sucks no time to read what i want have to read anatomy books and gay shit about economics who cares

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