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This is my second posting if you include the one I just mistakenly made to myself (apparently) on my notice board, so I'd better give a quick recap.
I'm an avid reader in my sixties who after a lifetime of reading has learned - pretty much zilch. My preference in terms of genres is anything I can read, but think fantasy, politics, history, popular science, alternative history, art and architecture as a starting point.
I think as a way of giving a flavour of myself I'll try to throw down a few works of which I'm particularly fond and perhaps we'll take it from there.
Let's say; TLOTR (read about four times), The Dictionary of the Khazars (about six, and I actually believe I get it now), David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity, anything by Shakespeare, Gombrich's The Story of Art, Tim Shipman's Brexit books, Colour and Jewels, two books by Victoria Finlay, Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School, Alex in Numberland (maths stuff made fun), Watchmen by Alan Moore.
Gosh, I'm just spilling out names as they come to me really - it's too big a subject. My limitations; I won't read Mein Kampf - I don't want that beast inside my head for any amount of time. I tried to read Escher, Godel, Bach but was out of my depth before the end of the first paragraph - no, correction - sentence (but I took in A Brief History of Time without so much as a hiccup). Conspiracy? I don't know. Is Oliver Stone's Alternative History of the USA conspiracy?
Anyway, there you have it - or me. Shall we take this further? I hope so!
;)
I'm an avid reader in my sixties who after a lifetime of reading has learned - pretty much zilch. My preference in terms of genres is anything I can read, but think fantasy, politics, history, popular science, alternative history, art and architecture as a starting point.
I think as a way of giving a flavour of myself I'll try to throw down a few works of which I'm particularly fond and perhaps we'll take it from there.
Let's say; TLOTR (read about four times), The Dictionary of the Khazars (about six, and I actually believe I get it now), David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity, anything by Shakespeare, Gombrich's The Story of Art, Tim Shipman's Brexit books, Colour and Jewels, two books by Victoria Finlay, Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School, Alex in Numberland (maths stuff made fun), Watchmen by Alan Moore.
Gosh, I'm just spilling out names as they come to me really - it's too big a subject. My limitations; I won't read Mein Kampf - I don't want that beast inside my head for any amount of time. I tried to read Escher, Godel, Bach but was out of my depth before the end of the first paragraph - no, correction - sentence (but I took in A Brief History of Time without so much as a hiccup). Conspiracy? I don't know. Is Oliver Stone's Alternative History of the USA conspiracy?
Anyway, there you have it - or me. Shall we take this further? I hope so!
;)
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