You know, after a couple years of looking at your book lists, I ask myself...are these people really that intellectual and interested in this "serious heavy hitting literature", or are they just throwing out the labels for show ? I mean really, doesn't anyone here do any light reading? I guess climbers are really smart mother fuckers.
For me as 1/2 time dad, juggling boating, work, some social life, the fucking yard, life's little ongoing errands, time in the mountains, grandparents, occasions, appointments, and all the other shit that makes up my week, about the only time I have to read is on the shitter and usually it's a magazine. I can't finish an article before the fucking phone rings, there's a knock at the door, or I have to break up a fight between my kids. Jeez, last week my son and his friend got into a full blown fist fight in my yard. A true face punchout battle which I finally had to break up when my son Drew was slamming the other fucker's face into my cedar fence. Drew's 13. Point is, I have no time for reading...my loss I guess.