Nik-Ken-Bah
Well-Known Member
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you. – Richard de Bury.(1287 – 1345)
The books that help you most, are those which make you think the most. —The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. – Theodore Parker. (1810 – 1860)
What genre/s do you tend to read for enjoyment, pleasure, entertainment?
What is the title of the book/s that you find as outstanding in your mind?
What was the title of the book that you cherished as a child always keep coming back to to read?
I have an eclectic taste in books encompassing nearly all genres both Fictional and Non-fictional as I have been a avid reader of books since the first time I could read effortlessly and understood what I was reading. I read books printed in the 18th, 19th centuries of which I had a small collection of many moons ago now. Now I have to settle for reading them in PDF format.
I suppose the book I cherished in my childhood was Just-So-Stories by Rudyard Kipling.
I have no one favourite author or book title as there is an amazing amount of writers to choose from in the world of literature. All who stand out from their
contemporaries in their age.
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
The associate of Pope and Addison,
the mind accustomed to the noble though silent discourse of Shakespeare and Milton,
will hardly seek or put up with low or evil company and slaves. – Thomas Hood. (1799 – 1845)
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book!
A message to us from the dead—from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away.
And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. – Charles Kingsley.(1819 – 1875)
The books that help you most, are those which make you think the most. —The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. – Theodore Parker. (1810 – 1860)
What genre/s do you tend to read for enjoyment, pleasure, entertainment?
What is the title of the book/s that you find as outstanding in your mind?
What was the title of the book that you cherished as a child always keep coming back to to read?
I have an eclectic taste in books encompassing nearly all genres both Fictional and Non-fictional as I have been a avid reader of books since the first time I could read effortlessly and understood what I was reading. I read books printed in the 18th, 19th centuries of which I had a small collection of many moons ago now. Now I have to settle for reading them in PDF format.
I suppose the book I cherished in my childhood was Just-So-Stories by Rudyard Kipling.
I have no one favourite author or book title as there is an amazing amount of writers to choose from in the world of literature. All who stand out from their
contemporaries in their age.
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
The associate of Pope and Addison,
the mind accustomed to the noble though silent discourse of Shakespeare and Milton,
will hardly seek or put up with low or evil company and slaves. – Thomas Hood. (1799 – 1845)
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book!
A message to us from the dead—from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away.
And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. – Charles Kingsley.(1819 – 1875)