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I read Sherlock Holmes years ago.....loved his “thinking’. I also read Louis L’mour books-—love the Sackett series. Read the Pelican Brief and Jurassic Park and Les Miz and Brother’s K. and “Farnham’s Freehold” .

I tend to read more history, though, and philosophy like the Nicomachean Ethics—and liked “John Adams”, “The Team of Rivals”, “St. Thomas Aquinas” by Chesterton, and books like “John Dewey and the Decline of American Education” and Charlotte Iserbyt’s and John Taylor Gatto’s and Eakman’s books about public schools and curricula-—Also books on Pathology and Child Development and Greek philosophy and John Locke and Cicero.

Dr. Berlinski’s book-—”The Devil’s Delusion” was a recent favorite. Love that guy. Read “God and Man at Yale” and CS Lewis—The “Abolition of Man”, which was profound. All of CS Lewis’ work and the “Hobbit”.....and even Michener’s books which got a little too lengthy (and boring) for me eventually.

I love most books, gotta admit. Reread “Fahrenheit 451” after the author died-—it was eye-opening because the author stated in last interview that the movie got it wrong-—that it was about people giving up reading -—not by government force—but because of TV and all the White Noise and distractions-—they gave up the Classics for Sound Bites and “bread and circuses” and after they gave it up, when people were starting to figure out the emptiness in their lives and wanted to educate themselves again—the government stepped in to eradicate books. The government found zombies easier to control and intimidate than people of Wisdom.

I love some of the children’s books also..read a lot of the Newbery Medal Winners......just read the “Annotated Alice” (in Wonderland) and enjoyed it immensely.

You can tell-—it is my passion-—to read. I have no time for “tv programming” at all. Occasionally go to the library and get some movies but love the ones on Westinghouse, Tesla, Einstein, Newton, Medici, etc.-—biographies. Some classics like “For Greater Glory” and “Amazing Grace” “Pride and Prejudice” I love also.

Then I do art (paint) and crafty things.......love it, as I listen to youtube videos-—debates on Christianity, Freemasonry, Catholic Theology. LOVE IT! :)