Why you should read novels

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Ryan Reid Oct 30, 2009, 1:08pm EDT

i dont read all to much, im more of a music guy

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Vivian P. Oct 30, 2009, 1:08pm EDT

this article

you meant right now didn't you ??

Oh and good choice youv've made there

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Vivian P. Oct 30, 2009, 1:09pm EDT

Tracey rules !!!!!!!!!

Tracy Fabre Oct 30, 2009, 1:19pm EDT

... but with compassion. ;-)

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Kathryn E. Oct 30, 2009, 1:09pm EDT

as good a reason as any to read novels. you have long, slim, artistic fingers.

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Kathryn E. Oct 30, 2009, 1:09pm EDT

Tracey is awesome!

Tracy Fabre Oct 30, 2009, 1:19pm EDT

Your check is in the mail.

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Kathryn E. Oct 30, 2009, 1:09pm EDT

And so are you!

Vivian P. Oct 30, 2009, 1:10pm EDT

why yes he is !

Tracy Fabre Oct 30, 2009, 1:19pm EDT

Agreed!

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DesertDarlene L. Oct 30, 2009, 1:10pm EDT

I'm actually listening on CD to Wizard's First Rule which is what most of the show the Legend of the Seeker is based on. It's a whole series of fantasy books by Terry Goodkind. I'm not much of a fantasy reader and this book is so huge and was very slow in the beginning, but I'm at the point where it's starting to move a little, so I am liking it.

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Kay M. Oct 30, 2009, 1:12pm EDT

I read that one you're holding and I liked it!

Tracy Fabre Oct 30, 2009, 1:19pm EDT

YOUR check is in the mail, too.

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Desire Hendricks Oct 30, 2009, 1:12pm EDT

I'm reading a Harry Dresden novel, White Night.

david f. Oct 30, 2009, 1:17pm EDT

ahhh - good taste - dresden is great reading

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david f. Oct 30, 2009, 1:17pm EDT

well said, peter. i'm in the middle of beat the reaper

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Tracy Fabre Oct 30, 2009, 1:21pm EDT

I'm part-way through Pat Bertam's More Deaths Than One AND Con Chapman's CannaCorn. But I had to return I Can Make You Sleep unread because I don't have time for a few weeks to learn how to sleep. ;-)

That's a lovely book cover you're holding up. I can't wait to see you repeat this photo with the cover you did for Sending Rupert Home!

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Vivian P. Oct 30, 2009, 1:23pm EDT

I'm still waiting for the books I won from Gather

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Sensational Sadie Sexy Senior Sitizen Oct 30, 2009, 1:28pm EDT

I couldn't agree more Col. I always tell the children in my second grade class that reading is like going on a vacation from all they things in our everyday lives and we all have some things in our lives we would like a vacation from.

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Purrrrrrrrrrr~Genki dashite~Nantoka naru-yo! S. Oct 30, 2009, 1:33pm EDT

preeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeecisely~

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Purrrrrrrrrrr~Genki dashite~Nantoka naru-yo! S. Oct 30, 2009, 1:34pm EDT

*pssst. you have nice fingers*

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Vicente Duque Oct 30, 2009, 1:40pm EDT

Thanks Peter Joseph :

We read novels because it is Wonderful, Beautiful, Great, Astonishing, Ecstatic !

And it gives a lot of pleasure.

On the other hand kittnes and cubs play in order to prepare for adult life.

The same with children.

Literature, Novels, Poetry, Paintings, Illustrations, Sculpture, Music, Gourmet Food, Wonderful cooking, Bakery Delicatessen. All these things prepare us to be better humans after the wonderful ecstatic experience.

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Vicente Duque

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Sarah (I want points) Oct 30, 2009, 2:17pm EDT

I love reading. I'm about to start the last book in the Twilight series.

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Marianne R. Oct 30, 2009, 3:26pm EDT

I'm about midway through The Time Travellers Wife at the moment.

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Melanie S. Oct 30, 2009, 3:55pm EDT

I couldn't agree more! I always say that my imagination is 100 times better than any movie special effects can muster up on the screen.

I just finished read the second Sookie Stackhouse book that I got for my birthday.

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Johnice R. Oct 30, 2009, 4:03pm EDT

I have started: The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience by, Bixler, Mark

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Ellie !. Oct 30, 2009, 4:28pm EDT

I love your sales pitch! Sometimes I hate being trapped all alone with myself in my skull!

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Kat W. Oct 30, 2009, 4:29pm EDT

I'm reading "Play Dead"

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ann c. Oct 30, 2009, 4:31pm EDT

Oh what a fabulous advertisement for Tracy's book. She should return the favor.

I'm reading, Flannery, A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch!!!

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kokomo *. Oct 30, 2009, 5:57pm EDT

Peter, I totally agree with what you say and you put it so well. Many, but not all, novels are accurate and a good author extensively researchs before writing. That's of course if the novel takes place in the past, or in the "present," but the "flash back" is used to understand where the characters are coming from.

Oh course that doesn't always work in sci-fi. It's pretty funny to read those old sci-fi books (or watch the original Twilight Zone, for example) to see how people thought the future would be. Ha, ha!

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