Posted on 08/21/2007 2:24:45 PM PDT by Nachum
The “luxury item” designation only partly applies to price. Again, content, appearance, etc.
Oh yeah, when the seven volume Rising Up, Rising Down came out the publisher was worried about the $1,100 (I think) price tag. The first pritning sold out almost immdiately. Since then, I’ve been seeing specialty books regularly selling for $600 and $700 in more and more homes of the wealthy along with a lot of normal priced books.
And three in four AP news editors pray this poll is correct.....
Blame english departments for assigning antiquated, boring books. Reading one action-less book you aren't interested in after another, and then being told what the author "meant" by someone who isn't the author is an experience to be glad to be done with indeed.
I think Shakespeare has single handedly kept more young adults away from libraries than every channel on the idiot box put together.
I also prefer nonfiction. My husband and I read every night. I reread Tolkien and Dorothy Sayers every year. Have read “History of the the English Speaking Peoples” and have purchase the new one the President read. How people can get through life without reading is beyond me.
Good point.
I know they exist but actually I have never, ever seen anyone reading a comic book.
And both are the sort you'd never find on a highschool reading list. If captive youth were exposed to patriotic adventure stories instead of Chaucer and Flowers for Algernon, more would read of their own free will later.
Maybe it’s the way I was brought up. Reading wasn’t a luxury, it was mandatory. My mother was a school teacher and we read books, LOTS of books. Perhaps if you think of it as a luxury then other mundane things will take up your time.
Harry Potter is so overrated. I have read the first 5 books, and number 6 is sitting on the dresser for 3 weeks now, and I just can't find the time to open it. Between Asheron's Call (a game) and FreeRepublic, I barely can sqeeze out enough time to go work out at the gym or see a movie. Something has to give.
It’s funny, but I actually find it difficult to communicate with people on any real level who don’t read, even at least, a newspaper, lol.
Btw, what’s the title of the book the President read? Thanks.
Then you don’t know about “The Silver Surfer” — One of the noblest and most tormented cosmic entities in the universe, who treasures freedom above all else, but has often sacrificed his liberty for the greater good.
Most of my great finds for cheap are books on the must read before you die lists. Pulitzer prize winners, recent best sellers lists, classic fiction, History, autobiographies, politics, mysteries, thrillers, modern classics, and many great world lit works. I don't waste my time or money on poorly written books.
Living in a college town with a master of fine arts program does have it's bennies. ;)
Books compete with other forms of “entertainment” such as TV, video games, movies, the internet, etc. They are time consuming and relatively pricey to own.
That is true but it’s also very easy to get caught up in mindless, brain numbing entertainment. We get to witness the results all the time by the poor social behaviors, ignorance of what is happening in the world, and atrocious spelling and grammar on message boards.
Those mind numbed robots vote.
Yep.
But, I do read about a book/week. If one doesn’t read an awful lot, there’s no way he can stay even marginally informed in today’s world.
A guy equals the sum of : what he has read + the women he has
been intimate with + the sports he has played + jobs he has
had.
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