Zibago
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This is weird but I have only read two complete non circuilum books in my lifeFor a while as a kid I had a healthy avoidance of books without enough pictures in them (I am pretty visually/spacially oriented person)...so most of what I bothered to read were non-fiction mostly...especially Space/Earth/Wildlife etc.
It was only later (I think around 10 years old and later) I forced myself to read longer "writing only" kinda books...and I learned to appreciate them too. I think the Hobbit and Lord of the rings were my first long binge reads....and then I found Tolstoy, Twain, Dickens and all the rest....I didn't have to see a snippet of something they wrote laundered through someone else's interpretation as something on TV/stage etc like I sort of relied on till then....rather I could just read it for myself..right at the source. It was quite liberating haha....and I have never stopped....only discovered new worlds like long rich history books etc (that I would never ever have thought of reading back in the day when I was hooked on pictures).
Then there are such things like Hamlet by the "Titan of english"-speare himself which I find something new in each time I read it (esp as my own perspectives on life change with time)...and probably always be the case....as I stare into my psyche like Hamlet stared into Yorick's skull.
iScam/fakebook/twitterati/insta-derp kids these days just don't know what they are missing out on!
@Zibago @Pakhtoon yum @Vergennes
Dune and Atlas Shrugs
In my mid teens I had no interest and in my late teens and twenties no spare time as all the spare time was spent on pursuit of a fair maiden or video games
But there are about 30 something books I started but never finished as reading the book after watching the movie kind of bored me or the positive review was overrated