On Jan 9, 10:53*pm, "Steve W." wrote:
Giles wrote:

...as is often the case, Mr. Clemens said it better.....and more
succinctly: "The man who does not read good books has no advantage
over the man who can't read them."

Food (and good, nutritious food at that) for thought.

Wolfgang

I'll read just about anything. From classic stuff to tech manuals.

I'll read tech manuals......under either of two sets of conditions.
One, I absolutely MUST have the information, and there is no other way
to get it or, two, there is absolutely nothing else to do and
abolutely no other reading material available. Fotunately, both sets
of conditions are rare, and the latter increasingly so as I now have a
virtually unlimited set of books available at all times.....no more
sitting in the waiting room and suddenly discovering that there are
only two pages left!

There's other stuff that I won't willingly touch, but not so much that
I don't feel justified in claiming rather broad tastes. I've only got
a few pages of Burroughs' "A Princess of Mars" left. Classic
trash.....but trash nevertheless.

Luckily, Twain's dictum does not preclude ingestion of materials
entirely devoid of nutritional content.

Wolfgang