In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
I inhaled books. I loved Classics Illustrated comic books. These were books that I could afford to buy after I turned in pop bottles for change. 'The Prince and the Pauper,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth.' Male narratives filled with adventure and self-discovery.
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
I've always been a big fan of books.
I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.
I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.
Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.
I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!