Anyone read sth like "The Goal", SuZe Orman's books, or cook book?

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In terms of cookbooks, I don't read them cover to cover but I occasionally read about a certain technique or type of food if I'm interested. I like to read pop non-fiction like Freakonomics and The Tipping Point...they deliver information but are not nearly as dry as a textbook. Any book that covers some area I'm at least mildly interested in, I'll usually at least try to read.

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To be honest, I don't really read books. I used to read books all the time a couple years back but now, I find it hard to pick up a book and start reading it. To answer your question about what I read, I read internet blogs/articles/forums and that's probably most of the reading I do outside of school. I definitely think it is a good idea to read a more diverse array of books just to be more well rounded in your understanding of different things. If I were to choose a book to read, I would probably read some kind of informational book or maybe fiction once in a while. There's just something about picking up a book and reading that makes me uninterested. I guess different people have their own way of reading.

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I also don't read books as much as I used to, at least not cover to cover. Usually I'll just skim the table of contents and pick out the chapters that I think are most interesting. Most of my reading is blogs and online articles as well, and sometimes journal articles as well. I do find though that I enjoy a good book much more than a good article; it's much more satisfying. I'm trying to get back into my book reading again.

In terms of what I read, I usually gravitate toward health topics, both mental and physical, and I also really like to read about human factors. Anything that looks well-written and not dry is potential reading material though. I'm not really picky about what I choose to learn about.

Nonfiction is becoming my new favorite; I'm not much of a lit junkie anymore, even though I used to LOVE novels.

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Well... I'm pretty sure I have never read a "friction" book

Anyways.... I actually haven't read any books in a while... but the one that I usually do read is my Bible .

When I do read other books though.. it is usually a novel or some sort of fiction.

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I'm an odd sort of reader, I will go through stages where I read loads then stop for protracted periods of time!

When I have time to commute I will read various non-ficiton stuff, recently just finished a book on the political history of Britian (by Andrew Marr, the bbc political correspondent), and it was really interesting, I never thought I would say this but I think that Margaret Thatcher was maybe not such a bad prime minister now!

I do read novels (I've recently started the Ian Fleming collection of James Bond novels - which are remarkably good fun).

I'm also like reading fiction that is based on people experience and observations.

Currently I'm reading "a year in the Merde" who's main character is Paul West (I forget the author off hand, I will try to edit the post later), about a bloke who has emigrated from England to France, which is rather amusing (and pertinent as I am about to do the same thing). It is loosely based around the experiences of the author and his other ex-pat acqaintaincies.

I generally stop reading when I start traveling to work by car, or I only have a very short trip. I love the internet and being able to download various radio programmes from the BBC iplayer site (this will be very important to me when I get to France!).

Dave

 

 

 

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