to not read Books?

[VinegarTits]

what the title says

I would rather watch telly

not unreasonable just a bit deprived

VT, I am not sure that I could recommend a good one for you ...

I have only listened to a few audio books:

One when my grandfather and I were going on a marathon driving trip to my parents' house and he got us this crime/thriller type book which I can't remember the name of. I still remember us arriving at the house after this 12 hour trip and sitting in the drive waiting for the end! And finally my parents (who I had not seen for a year) come out and said "oh you've arrived - how exciting" etcetc and we just told them to sshhh and we would come in when we were ready. We really were completely engrossed!!! It was a great way to share something together and we chatted about the book for ages afterwards.

Another one was Possession by AS Byatt which someone got me when I was in hospital and couldn't read myself. I loved it but had read the book already and am not sure that I would have loved it so much if I hadn't.

The other was War and Peace which I bought because someone told me that audio books were great for when you were breastfeeding ... wtf?! Didn't work for me but I can still remember the first line which I played over and over while struggling to latch on DS. I suspect that I would have finished the paperbook much quicker!

Anyway in short no recommendations from me but I think a good start would be to find somethign you are interested in which is relatively lightweight and fun and see how you go. Good luck!

(Caveat: I enjoy watching TV and books.)

Do TV programmes yet exist which offer the intellectual, educational or artistic heights that exist in books? I think that they don't. I think there are good TV programmes, but that there are truly great books. TV programmes simply haven't had the time to become as good as books.

But then am I trying to debate an impossible question of subjective value judgements - is the written work a more valuable art form than film?

I love both reading and watching TV, but if I was deprived of only one, it's the reading I could not do without.

YANBU.

Do what you want with your leisure time

I used to be an academic and read books all the time. I have even written parts of books but now my work means I sit in front of a computer every day where I am reading email, articles, blogs, forums continuously and I could not bear to pick up a book.

I suppose it is a bit like a chef coming home from work and just not wanting to cook.

YANBU if that is what you want, but you are missing out badly!
I have never been without a book to read since I first started to read (and before that no one could sit down or I handed them a book to read to me). I finish one and start another-I have 4 lined up at the moment. I belong to the library and it isn't likely that I would run out, but if I did I would re read an old favourite.

Each to their own but I know that I would be desolate without books. Even now, if I have nothing to read, dp knows to keep out of the way!

I think the biggest difference is that reading is an active occupation and TV viewing is generally passive. In reading, we must work alongside the writer to create meaning; in TV viewing I'm not so sure this is necessary.

Janeite - Yes - the pictures are much better in text-only books

I will definately read your book KM (will there be an audio book version?)

DreadPirate - see, not only do you have a fab name which references a fab film, you are clearly very clever as well!

Ladies i think you have misunderstood my post. I didn't say i don't like books in the living room. My post was -half joking- response to someone who said she would judge a house with no books in the living room. And i did know a woman who didn't read at all but had books on display .

Omg i will show this thread to my DH. I didn't know people react like this to someone who says he/she doesn't read.

I know it is a little U, but I do be a bit judgeypants of a house with no books to be seen anywhere. Not like seriously judgey "you're all morons", just "why no books? does not compute" sort of judgey.

Only in my head though, not out loud.

I think I have books in every room-except the bathroom.

But what do you read in the bath piscesmoon?

Audiobook for VT? Fahrenheit 451

I hate going to houses without books - I always think they seem somehow naked. If there are no books, what do people nosey at whilst the host/ess puts the kettle on?

and their houses are so much less cluttered than mine - deeply unreasonable!

I also have books in the bathroom. And the loo! They are everywhere, they just can't be contained, and thats after I got rid of half of what I had when we moved into our teeny house.

Your posts are very articulate, so clearly it's not doing you any harm VinegarTits . By any chance do you just not see the point of fiction? A few of the computer techie geek blokes I know struggle rather with fiction.

presumably you read newspapers, possibly even magazines such as new scientist? would have thought good journalism would be more enriching than say reading Dan Brown and Mills & Boon.

I can't read in the bath without it getting soggy!

Just read your OP (not all the comments in between, sorry).

Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaattttt you don't read books? What is wrong with you

TBH I really don't think YABU as it doesn't affect me and I couldn't give a monkeys

However, I love nothing better than DD being in bed and settling down for the evening with a good book (or ahem trashy mag)