UKRM Book Club

Daunt Books in Marylebone was quite nice too - haven't been in it since 2001
so can't comment on what it's like now.

 

[another book!]

This is a convenient thread to hijack for a question to the ukrm
bookworms (and others) - why do you like books / reading so much?

 

Escapism for me.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Paul Corfield

What a bloody good question...

I have a very low boredom threshold. Which is why I have lots of books
in the bog, I guess. When we do a beach holiday Sharon spends her time
doing word puzzles and people-watching. I spend mine reading from dawn
'til dusk.

I read for lots of reasons. Escapism, certainly. To learn new stuff.
Just to be entertained (I read a lot of what the studious[1] would term
"crap").

I *have* to read a few pages at night to shut my mind down, or I can't
sleep.


[1] And / or pretentious...

 

For years I used to read a book almost every day, it was great, a way to
switch off and relax.

I haven't been able to do so in a long time more recently, my attention
span is f*cked and I tend to get sidetracked thinking about things, or
just can't be bothered after work, I also don't relax as much as I used
to.

Maybe I should get back to into reading.

 

I've just started reading the bible.

Nothing beats a couple of thousand pages of sheer escapism!

 

So you wouldn't like it if we told you how it ends.

 

Ginge, they aren't talking about ****-mags here.

 

Oh. OK.

How about dirty books?

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Paul Corfield

The power of the imagination.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
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Now you're talking.

 

There used to be a clutch of secondhand and antiquarian shops in St.
Giles', and there's an excellent one halfway up Elm Hill in Norwich. Or
preferably halfway down, if I'm carrying books.

 

For you to dream about what might have been.

 

Then park in Park St, it's a much shorter walk!

HTH
John

 

He's a sweetie and you're a nasty man

 

The pleasure of seeing a writer capture an idea and share it. The
serendipity of the right book at the right time.

Gaining an insight into another section of archetypal phase space and
the knowledge gleaned that can be applied.

For escapism. For entertainment. For practical skills. For erotic
purposes. For mundane purposes.

Plus the really heavy ones are great for thwacking people with.

 

Paul Corfield says...

I read to escape from the pressures of life. I lose myself in another
world when the words appear in my head and create a scene that only I
can see. I imagine people I know personally, and celebs I've seen in
films etc, acting out the characters. If the writer is descriptive
enough you can almost hear the background noises and smell the different
things you'd imagine to be around. It's escapism at its best.

 

****, I really must start reading

 

Like everyone else here, I read for escapism. Some of the books I read are
like old friends. "I Claudius" by Robert Graves never lets me down, although
the pages are falling out and the cover has torn with age. For a couple of
hours, it takes me away from the hassle of today and leaves me feeling
grateful for the fact that - life in general is alot fucking better today
than it was then.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

The thin ones for table legs, don't forget.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10