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Originally Posted by BallOfFire Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for those items. I am actually going to college right now, so I'm reading several hundred pages per day, but it requires all my effort and is pretty torturous. I just can't stand to spend that much time in someone else's head who has less going on there than myself =P. I'm told it's arrogance, but I prefer "recognized intellectual superiority." ^^ |
Well, of course you would, lol!
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Originally Posted by BallOfFire By the way... Terry Pratchett... isn't that the person who wrote the Shanara series? I loved those books back in Junior High, but I doubt they could retain my interest these days. |
No no NO!!
That's Terry BROOKS -
dreadful writer! I never could imagine why he was so popular. I only ever read two then decided not to bother any more. Urgh.
Terry Pratchett is a different kettle of fish altogether! He is The Discworld writer.
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Originally Posted by BallOfFire My problem is I started reading for pleasure at a young age, so by Junior High I was already reading adult level books, including many that not even most adults would understand. |
You and me both. Though I find it hard to believe an ADHD child could be persuaded to do much reading...??
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Originally Posted by BallOfFire I just kept reading harder and harder books until there was no where to go from there. Any harder and its just purposeful obscurity on the part of authors in a conceited attempt to disguise their own shortcomings. |
I always preferred fiction when I was young; but as I got older I started reading as many factual books as fiction. Heh. The teaches at school always looked to see what book I had brought with me to read at playtime, because they were constantly amazed at the huge age range of the material I read - anything from Fairy Tales and Enid Blyton to Dickens and Chaucer. At ages 8-11.
I never went looking for difficult books. It was just that I was growing up during WW2 and afterwards and I didn't have many books of my own, so read my parents' and grandparents' books, because they were there, and because I was an obsessive reader.