I was going to hold off until I could actually state a new book I’m reading (although I never understood the point of this never ending thread anyway, especially since very few actually make more than a 10 word comment on ‘just finished’, but:
Wabbit said:
Jay, it has been noted that your posts can very sarcastic, insulting, and condescending toward many users on this forum. I'm sure you are passionate and you are entitled to your opinions but either make them without the insults or don't post them at all. Just tone it down please.
In my general posts, very rarely if ever am I insulting to an individual - I usual prance about a theme, seeding unfertile ground. If a *reader* decides they are insulted by, say, reading fiction aimed at pre-teens then they probably need a bit of an introspective view of themselves but instead they post a bunch of nonsense directed at me. If *then* I get personally “insulting” it’s their own fault for not being even vaguely able to pursue a conversation, let alone a debate. Pointing out errors in thought, process and conversation is not “insulting” it’s factual.
So I’m sorry that I can’t tune down my ever-status of ‘monotone’.
If you’d like me to resign from the board, I will do so and do so quietly.
Ice said:
I'm afraid I completely disagree with this statement - whether or not you choose to read Harry Potter has little relevance on your intelligence
Instead of ‘rolling your eyes’, which really isn’t a great debating technique, could you actually try to put it into words why you disagree?
Books are, basically, food for the brain. Otherwise why not just turn on the TV?
Yes, junk food is desired by all and it has it’s time and place.
Book reading is a solitary engagement. TV, Music, playing an instrument, conversation --all these things (to a degree) can be done as multi-tasking.
Reading, for the most point, can not.
So sorry, what one **chooses** to read _does_ have some factors on brain usage. And if following current trends and The Madness of Crowds is a factor, this is also a gauge of, sorry, “intelligence”.
Also not being able to actually talk about WHY one “loves” such stuff instead of just getting defensive about it is, again, a brain-thing.
Really all this should be in a separate thread, if admin chooses I have no problem with my words being taken elsewhere. My suggestion for the thread title would be The Death of Reading: Logic Need Not Apply.
Still reading Paul Auster…
j