bwf@ihlpl.UUCP (Fecht) (06/20/85)
Gads! Don't your eyes get sore?
leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) (06/23/85)
>Gads! Don't your eyes get sore?
Interesting you should ask. There is a small, dull story there at
least as far as my reading. Evelyn always read a lot. My medium was
always more cinema. I would read maybe six or seven books cover to
cover in a year. I did a lot of short reading but rarely stuck with a
book all the way through. I am the chairperson of the AT&T Science
Fiction club, but even in that field I have read few of the classics.
I used to kid people that I was "functionally illiterate." Then I
found out a close friend actually believed that I really didn't read.
That was sort of startling. I started reviewing more of what I read in
the science fiction club notice. Then on March 10 this year I read a
short story in which one of the characters claimed to read 50 pages a
day. I decided that I would read a minimum of ten pages that day, a
minimum of 11 the next day and so forth until I ramped up to 50 pages a
day. I am now reading better than a book a week and getting back to a
lot of books I had intended to read for years. I guess I find the best
way to get back into reading is to ramp up like that. Now my list of
films recorded off the cable and waiting to be watched is getting out
of hand. I guess you can't win.
Mark Leeper
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