Give Me a Good Book Anytime

Helene Lawson · Mar 14, 2015

I would recommend you a lot of books, I have read a lot of books past my life and still enjoy reading them.
One of my very favourites (because of it's climate) was Caroline by Neil Gaiman, and generally I like Tim Burton and his films also.

Maggie Rose · Sep 30, 2020

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It was lost when my parents' house burned to the ground while I was away in college, but my parents had a report card of mine from the third grade, where the teacher had written, "Reads too much." Throughout school, rather than choosing from among the books on the recommended reading lists, I would read all of them, and more. I like pretty much anything that is well written. Among them was Isaac Asimov and I was in elementary school when I read Lovecraft's Cthulu stories. I found that John Steinbeck wrote far more books than most people ever heard of, and I have every one of them that I was able to get my hands on, and some of them required eBay, more recently. Although a couple of his books seemed to be loosely put together for the purpose paying the mortgage, I liked most of Kurt Vonnegut's stuff, but there was also Ken Kesey, Michael Crichton, Ted Dekker, W.P. Kinsella, Jerzy Kosinski, E.L. Doctorow, and Graham Greene. Even translated into English from the German, I liked Gunter Grass. Although very different, I have several of Erskine Caldwell's books, and Orson Scott Card is one of my favorites.

When I was in Bible college, I would go to a 24-hour restaurant in Fullerton, California often. After ten o'clock, their overflow room would be closed, but they'd let me go in there since I would buy a meal, drink coffee all night, and leave a very large tip. I had trouble studying at home because there were so many distractions so I found that was a good place for me to go if I needed to write a paper or study. Often, another man would come in and sit in the other side of the overflow room, appearing to do pretty much the same thing. Both of us were a little old to be in college but since there were a few colleges in Fullerton, I figured that was what he was doing. One night, we got there at about the same time, and said hello. He introduced himself as Phil Dick, as in Philip K. Dick, an author whose books I had already read. I knew he was living in the area because some of his books had local settings that I was familiar with, but had no idea that was who it was. If you're not familiar with Philip K. Dick, he wrote the books that the movies, Blade Runner, The Man in the High Castle, Radio Free Albemuth, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, and others were based on, although he died before most of them became movies.
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Reads too much? Is that even possible? I think kids today could use a bunch more, just my opinion.

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