Have you grown out of books and authors?
I came up with the idea of this. Well, the other day when I decided that, you know, a pandemic would be a good time as any to revisit some of my old favorites from my bookshelves. So the Agatha Christie, the Jeffrey Archers, the Dan Brown and the Michael Crichtons. There was a time when I blazed through all of these books with a special kind of vengeance, and I used to be a huge fan of all these writers
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:59
She's a Muslim author, and she writes children's fiction, and she wrote this children's adventure story, and I read it, and I almost started crying at the end of it because it reminded me of The Famous Five by Annette. I just felt like I was a child again. And after reading that, I'm kind of like I've got to read Famous Five series again
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:08
I used to really be deep into the James Patterson Alex Cross novel series. Books, Bosch, HEROnymous, Bosch from God. I can't remember the author's name, and now I was really big into the crime, Detective, crime books, mystery books. And what happened was that once I started learning more about true crime and the methods in which how real life cases are investigated and interrogations are conducted. These books, these fictional cool guys became a joke in a way
Todd Wiese
@Raretodd · 2:00
Hey, everybody, I'm with the Wan on this one. I don't read fiction books anymore. Every once in a while. I will, but I enjoy nonfiction books. I like political books and history books and biographies. I really like biographies. I finished reading the biography of Rob Halford from Judas Priest called Confess, and I also read Bruce Dickinson's autobiography called What Does This Button Do? And I am reading Dune
While I did like how Titus Welliver gave a face to the character I once crushed heavily on, I kind of gave up after a couple of episodes, but I'm really glad that you managed to read Silence of the Lambs despite having watched the movie. I think it's a cult crime classic that ought not to be missed by anybody in my opinion
Merely human. I like that point. You brought up about people generally leaning towards fiction at a younger age and gradually moving on to books that offer them, you know, kind of a fashion, actual knowledge of people, places, cultures, and society in general. I think in a way we do rely on nonfiction to be able to be a part of the larger social dialogue and to even become informed participants in society
Shinnas when you mentioned about Revisiting classics. In your response, something just struck me. I remember reading and, you know, revisiting some evergreen classics like Jniayer and Withering Heights. And I suppose I did not feel the same way I did when I read the regular commercial fiction kind of books. I didn't find them to be tiresome or out of place
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 2:44
And in reality, they would lose every case that they brought to the court because they're just going about things in a legal matter, breaking into places to retrieve evidence without a warrant. A lot of that stuff. It kind of soils and dampers real life situations. But yes, I'm not completely against fiction, but I guess it's just I'm just lost. I don't know where to begin with books
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 2:18
Dewan, what books have you been listening to with sound effects in the background? I mean, for me, I mean, I do a lot of audiobooks, I mean fiction, even nonfiction for that matter. And normally you have the sound effects like intro of music. And then it's like this book was read by blah blah, blah, blah, blah and blah, blah, blah, blah blah. And published by this media and this media
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 3:49
And then we have book club, and we can do another buddy read here for classics. Absolutely. Why not? We can do two buddy reads at one time. Heck, I read about seven to ten books a month, so at that rate, I'm sure I can swing a book club books, a classic and a buddy read. Oh, wow. Okay. All right. Let's do it. Let's do it
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 2:19
Oh, Shahnaz, thank you for bringing that up. No, it wasn't sound effects throughout the whole audiobook. It's just at certain places in the audiobook where, like an interlude to the next chapter, something along those lines where I would hear, like, ambient noise and some music and things of that nature
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:12
And with all the reading that I do and getting copies from publishers and things like that, I haven't read much fantasy. I've read a little bit, and that's one of the things that I really need to focus on in the upcoming year is to try to balance out my reading and really find some time to read the genres that I want to read. I mean, don't get me wrong. I like the books that the publishers are throwing my way right now