all right so we started recording already uh i guess i don't know it's the first time i've made a phone call on it oh so you pressed one okay so i guess we're supposed to start talking uh what kind of books do you read right i read uh a lot of Steven King Dean R Koontz uh some Danielle Steel my aunt got me hooked on those um-hum um-hum so it's mostly all novels okay so i yeah they're all novels i'll read some of classic too oh like what um well i like The Grapes Of Wrath by Steinbeck an i like um uh yeah i like that i like Steinbeck a lot a A Rose For Emily by Faulkner that's one of my favorite i have never read a lot of Faulkner oh and this this is more of a play or something that it that it was from that that i saw and i read the book from that oh cool and by the way my name's Bill i'm from North Carolina i'm Doug i'm from Pennsylvania um um i let's see what kind of books do you like to read um well a bunch of stuff i guess um fair number of novels but mostly shorter ones and like i don't really like the you know six hundred page long Stephen King novels and all that right i really have to be in the mood i i read one like maybe once a year of those um-hum no like i like say uh Richard Broudigan a lot um okay he's um i've never read anything by him he's dead now but he was really a pretty amazing writer he wrote books that were like pretty short and pretty easy to read you know like written at a third grade level or whatever but they were still very heavy and philosophical also very funny like he wrote Trout Fishing in America yeah okay so that's anyway and um i read a lot of nonfiction books too um let's see i like to read read a lot of nonfiction history when Civil War era and um-hum and that kind of thing i i found that real interesting i'm reading The Lion and the Wind right now and that was on TV it was uh uh-huh now what's that sometime during Teddy Roosevelt's time um-hum and um about about American woman that got kidnapped in um Morocco yeah uh this is when they were having their revolution or whatever and Teddy Roosevelt sent troops over and really portrays him as a kind of a crazy man um-hum yeah surprised me i had no idea that he was like that um-hum what how crazy well just like some some uh one quote that he had was that he thought the America's emblem was stupid because it was an eagle and it should be a grizzly bear because he liked the to uh to to hunt grizzly and stuff like that i see so it was it was i saw the movie and that's what uh made me want to read the book Candice Bergen was in the movie i'm a real big fan of hers so um-hum yeah cool see i also read a lot of books about music because i'm interested in that and fair number of stuff about science and also philosophy things um-hum what i like i like to read some of the philosophy stuff stuff stuff um-hum like let's see and even like reading some new age things things that i don't quite believe in like here on my shelf i have a book called Journeys Out of the Body yeah i think that i'm fascinated by that yeah i'm fascinated by that it's all about how to have out of body experiences and all of that um-hum yep that and and uh even stuff about not like ghost stories but real encounters with ghosts and supposedly haunted houses i like i'm kind of a doubting Thomas and i like to read stuff like that um-hum some of it really freaks me out yeah um-hum you're right definitely um and i like to read um i like to read some self help books like um i read Dianetics once once i got past all the gibberish on it and uh did you like it it was okay it it it it took me a while to really get into it it didn't help me that much but uh i think once you're set in your ways you're set in your ways um-hum i see yeah um then i one interesting real interesting book i read recently was when i was looking for a job i read How to Get the Job That You Wanted and it it had real good tips in it and um-hum i got the job that i wanted by applying the the methods that that they