I Still Read Books
I still read books. The kind that you can read when you are away from your computer. The kind that you can read by candle light when the power is out and no longer have internet access.
I have changed the way I purchase books. I have started purchasing books utilizing the links that Kevin has provided so that each book I buy will provide some support to FriendBurst.
I recently purchased Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States utilizing Kevin’s link to Amazon. I highly recommend this book to both my liberal and conservative friends, even those libertarians. It gives you a view of our history you never get through textbooks in schools. He utilizes real people’s comments on various stages of our past, people who actually were alive when things happened.
I know many of you won’t agree with his views, but his method is an improvement of the way history is written.
Although the Kindle and such has it’s advantages (like the savings per book you purchase and saving space) I admit I like the old fashioned paper bound book better myself, too. 🙂
I will check that out John and thanks….:)
Did you know that you can find whole books at Google books? I used to be such a avid reader. but my 1st husband didn’t like me reading and taking time away from him. I did pass on to my children my love of reading though. They all still buy books and I also bought them all an e-reader this last Christmas. I had never heard of that author or his book before, I will look into it. Thanks John!!
You just can’t beat the comfort and dependability of a good old fashioned analog book. 😉
I’ll keep my eye open for that book. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen it recommended. It sounds very cool.
What an awesome book to buy Mr S. I brought it the year before last on the recommendation of a friend in St Louis. I was in New York last year just after he died and was pleased to see some people honouring the great man that he was.
“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
— Howard Zinn
Its not as witty as some of his others but includes so much more of what he was about.
I am on a book called “Tick Tock” by Dean Koontz about a little doll that arrives on an authors doorstep and it comes to life, starts changing shape and is out to kill the author by sunup. I am about half way through it.
yep Dude,
I was surprised at the wording in Tick Tock.
Although I like a lot of it, there are some things in the book that I find immature and predictable.
He doesnt write quite as good as he used to.
O’Akbar, you might like that book > http://www.enoughisplenty.net/introduction-page8.html
>> http://www.irishleftreview.org/2010/02/04/power/
Books are wonderful and so is/was Howard Zinn.
I will never swap real books for ibooks/kindle. So much of the new technology these days just seems to be getting more and more superfluous – “Oh here’s our new superduper upgraded version of the latest thing….until next month,when we will release pretty much the same thing again in a new package”.
The thing about real books; it’s more than just the reading of them. It’s the snuggling down on a cosy night with a good book,the smell they get (I read something somewhere not so long ago that the smell of an OLD book releases a reaction similar to opiates,haha),the fact that they don’t need batteries or electricity or recharging,that they are not going to inexplicably crash on you,they don’t make my eyes hurt and give me a headache,and another HUGE benefit…you can safely take them in the bath 😀
I always read books. I can’t survive if I don’t read books from papers.
And I love to go in old books stores and feel the smell of an old book.
And also, I would like to read books with statements from people that relate in what way was back in time.
I seem to have arrived at a time when I can no longer afford traditional books OR an ereader. I would LOVE to have a Kindle (since it’s so easily carried, as easy as a small paperback) can have thousands of whole books in it, etc. On the other hand, it’s been quite some time since I’ve been able to read an entire book of any kind. I start to get frustrated with what I consider the “filler” material in in and want to get on to the end…don’t feel I have time to read whole books, even though I enjoy them.