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Steven O. Selsnik

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Re: Rate the last book you read.
« Reply #290 on: December 08, 2009, 08:15:02 AM »
anyone here got a kindle? if so, is it worth it?

Read here.

I love my Kindle.

Looking at one for my wife for Xmas. She is a school librarian and a traditionalist but is interested in the kindle. We make good use of the public library. My fear is dropping $250 on this thing and by March it is collecting dust.

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Re: Rate the last book you read.
« Reply #291 on: December 08, 2009, 06:04:47 PM »
anyone here got a kindle? if so, is it worth it?

Read here.

I love my Kindle.

Looking at one for my wife for Xmas. She is a school librarian and a traditionalist but is interested in the kindle. We make good use of the public library. My fear is dropping $250 on this thing and by March it is collecting dust.

I don't know your wife, but I'd bet any librarian who could carry 1500 books with her at one time just by slipping a small device into her handbag would do so.  My Kindle is rarely 10ft from me.  I use it all the time. 
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Re: Rate the last book you read.
« Reply #292 on: December 08, 2009, 06:12:25 PM »
anyone here got a kindle? if so, is it worth it?

Read here.

I love my Kindle.

Looking at one for my wife for Xmas. She is a school librarian and a traditionalist but is interested in the kindle. We make good use of the public library. My fear is dropping $250 on this thing and by March it is collecting dust.

Hm.  If she doesn't love it I'll buy it from ya.   Fer reals.  

Let's see... Rate the last book I read...

We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill

Love this stuff.  Why anyone ever wastes their time on fiction when reality is this interesting is beyond me.  
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Re: Rate the last book you read.
« Reply #293 on: December 08, 2009, 06:18:24 PM »
OmNom, what do you think of the Philippa Gregory Tudor series or others written about the Court etc?  Since you do a lot of non-fiction reading in the same area, I was wondering if you give PG's books any credit.
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Re: Rate the last book you read.
« Reply #294 on: December 08, 2009, 06:19:52 PM »



Love this stuff.  Why anyone ever wastes their time on fiction when reality is this interesting is beyond me.  

I am the same I read better than 90% non-fiction.

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Re: Rate the last book you read.
« Reply #295 on: December 08, 2009, 06:28:28 PM »
I hate reality.

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Re: Rate the last book you read.
« Reply #296 on: December 08, 2009, 06:31:13 PM »
Why anyone ever wastes their time on fiction when reality is this interesting is beyond me.

Does this apply to movies, too?  Do you watch more documentaries than average?

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Re: Rate the last book you read.
« Reply #297 on: December 08, 2009, 06:44:30 PM »
Why anyone ever wastes their time on fiction when reality is this interesting is beyond me.

Does this apply to movies, too?  Do you watch more documentaries than average?

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No.  With movies I'm very escapist.  

But with books I just cram my head with everything I can, and fiction seems pointless.  I would rather read abstracts on PubMed for a month.  Heck.  I confess.  I *do* read abstracts on PubMed for months.   :-[

I can't explain it, I really can't.  Something happened... A switch flipped when I was about 24, 25.  I can read fiction, I do read it, but the whole time I'm reading fiction it's like fingernails on a blackboard.  I am just hurting I want it to end so bad.  

Funny, Clovis, I'm a Klosterman fan too...
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Re: Rate the last book you read.
« Reply #298 on: December 08, 2009, 06:51:04 PM »
Why anyone ever wastes their time on fiction when reality is this interesting is beyond me.

Does this apply to movies, too?  Do you watch more documentaries than average?

pixote

No.  With movies I'm very escapist.  

But with books I just cram my head with everything I can, and fiction seems pointless.  I would rather read abstracts on PubMed for a month.  Heck.  I confess.  I *do* read abstracts on PubMed for months.   :-[

I can't explain it, I really can't.  Something happened... A switch flipped when I was about 24, 25.  I can read fiction, I do read it, but the whole time I'm reading fiction it's like fingernails on a blackboard.  I am just hurting I want it to end so bad.  

Funny, Clovis, I'm a Klosterman fan too...

LOL OmNom, this is literally exactly how I think too about movies and books. We are one in the same.

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Re: Rate the last book you read.
« Reply #299 on: December 08, 2009, 06:52:03 PM »
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