Do you read books?

@Mrchess78 said in #19:

I guess you've got yourself Covered. :).
“Book ‘em Dano!” Hawaii 5-0

God says don't read to many books, I don't read books for the sake of ,I get too many bad messages through them. They stole reading off me too xxx

@SimonBirch said in #22:

God says don't read to many books, I don't read books for the sake of ,I get too many bad messages through them. They stole reading off me too xxx
So, you’re limited to just 66 books then?

@HerkyHawkeye said in #23:

So, you’re limited to just 66 books then?
I am limited to not reading. Full stop. We're going to **** you up mentally , financially and physically , is what they said , so be it , game on xxx

@SimonBirch said in #24:

I am limited to not reading. Full stop. We're going to **** you up mentally , financially and physically , is what they said , so be it , game on xxx
So, are you are prohibited from reading? Period? I’m just trying to understand what you believe God told you.

The gods (demons,people whatever you want to call them) are so deeply embedded into collecting everyone that you wouldn't believe what I say. If you're alive , living and breathing , never give up xxx

@SimonBirch
We’re not quite on the same page so to speak. I wish you well. Love your statement “Never Give Up”.

NGU my friend.

No joke, I'm a complete bookworm, I read 67 novels last year!

I had a hard time getting through Proust's "Swann's Way." I spent three months rereading it, taking time over each sentence, and each hidden symbolism was really difficult, except at the end where it became easy to read with Swann's romance.

This year, I'm reading more sci-fi. I've put Asimov aside to return to Lovecraft and Poe, whose spontaneity of style and short stories I appreciate. I've also picked up French sci-fi, notably Barjavel, but my current gem is "La Soupe Aux Choux" by Renée Fallet, which was adapted for the screen with De Funes in the lead role of one of the peasants who encounters the alien. I find the novel more interesting than the film, because it addresses more complex themes and has a darker, more political tone.

I also read with a great interest the novel/monograph of Alexander the Great by Maurice Druon, I plan to get "The Accursed Kings" soon and I will also get "Le Cheval Roux" by Elsa Triolet - whose house I visited last month (Triolet house - Aragon near Saint Arnoult in Yvelines)

@CSKA_Moscou maybe you will enjoy three body problem by cixin liu, it has themes of the tenuousness of our perceptions of reality, the complexities of communication and intention, and technological differences as well as the survival and conflict aspect with the alien species. Unless you have already read the series