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
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so i
yeah they're all novels
i'll read some of classic too
oh like what
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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
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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
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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
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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
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yeah
surprised me i had no idea that he was like that
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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
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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
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what
i like i like to read some of the philosophy stuff stuff stuff
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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
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some of it really freaks me out
yeah
um-hum you're right definitely
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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
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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
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i got the job that i wanted by applying the the methods that
that they
