Me? Endangered? Oh noez!
Not much, I'd say.
Thank God she didn't do something silly like run for President because I fear many of us would have jumped on board without thinking it through. Sort of like voting for Huckabee or McCain if you get my drift.
I used to read (books) nonstop.
I still read a lot for pleasure. Mostly non-fiction.
This smells of more of the “they don’t read” BS they’ve been pumping for 8 years now.
She does not read for PLEASURE. She has a 24 hour job.
I have time to kill waiting in lines, while eating, etc. I am generally reading through 2 or 3 books at any point in time as well as a periodical or two. But I read a lot of articles online too. At a point in time, you have to put the “text” down and relate with people.
You also have to give your eyes a rest.
It is a curious form of attack to take on Condi considering our own displeasure with her bowing to antisemitic Islamic supremacists (making Jews use a separate entrance and then telling the muslims that you understand how they feel???).
Lots of bookworms in my family.
I, too, have been increasingly disillusioned by Condee Rice, the more I see of her. She certainly has some good qualities, but they seem to appear at rarer and rarer intervals these days.
I can’t imagine a life without reading or books. I can’t pass a bookstore without going in and my favorite way to spend an afternoon is in Steven’s (Raleigh, NC)used bookstore. I am curious about the books others read as well.
I sometimes use a magnifying glass to get a closer look at the bookcases pictured in magazines.
It bothers me to go in a house where there are no books. The house and its owners seem somehow bereft.
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She watches football to relax. She probably has to read all the time for work.
Any woman who enjoys the NFL is a notch up for me above one who doesn’t.
Reading, I firmly believe, is a source of relief from tyrants. Both for individuals and societies.
These sentences pose an interesting thought. I still like to read for fun. I just started De Tocqueville's Democracy in America the other day. It's a pretty new translation, and I think it's going to be very good.
actually, the bookworm is an endangered species. we are headed to a new dark ages. we have advanced as far as we are going to, and this is as good as it gets.
Sorry, I feel asleep reading this. Let’s see...Oh, yeah. Many of us who love to read haven’t read a book in years because we can read the internet, not as this author suggests, but real books on the internet as if they were from dead trees. For example, I’m into screenplays now and have read one a day for the past month or so. I’d do the same with paper versions, but they’re unwieldy and I’d have to drive to the library. So I contend that there are two different kinds of literate people: those who can read but don’t enjoy it and those who truly enjoy it. The internet has not changed either of them.
The high point of literacy in America was reached at the BEGINNING of the age of the Government School. The Government School was introduced to America for the purpose of REDUCING the level of literacy in America. The Government Schools are a resounding success. They are accomplishing what they were designed to do: create an illiterate, ignorant, fornicating Mass American, who would be amenable to being herded into factories and to the battlefield.
My eyes glaze over anytime I hear any politician, no matter how “conservative,” promising to “fix” the Government Schools. They ARE NOT BROKEN. They are functioning PERFECTLY. They are accomplishing PRECISELY what they have been DESIGNED to accomplish.
What was the Library of Alexandria compared to the Internet? Exclusive. It was also vulnerable to a despotic attack by Islamic tyrants.
With the world of knowledge at your fingertips, people turn to their vices rather than seek to better themselves. Instant gratification. Don't earn the money to buy some leisure; just download that song/new movie. Don't woo a girl, just spam out "hi theres" to young women on a social network and if their rejections seem too much, just discretely get some porn. When that gets old watch some reruns and laugh at some jokes. Who can concentrate on reading Asimov's books on science when you can read his books on ROBOTS instead? Why learn the laws of science when you can learn the laws of ROBOTS?
I lost interest in Condi during her speech in 2004(?) at the Repub Convention, in which she described how her grandfather switched religions in order to get a scholarship to college—and that’s why her family have been “devout whatevers ever since.” What kind of cynicism is that?
Not a bookworm? Not reading is unfathomable to me.
One day of human observation is vastly more valuable than one day of electronic noise.
Read.
you have to start as a young person reading what you like and not what is forced upon you
I read a lot of crap when I was young...I out grew it.
I have read a lot of very informative and inspirational stuff after I had my fill of pablum...I grew up...
I LOVE to read! If all books were written like this article, I’d never pick up another.
-Mark Twain