HB of CJ wrote:The author is Alexander Kent and the main character is Richard Bolitho. The era is from about 1775+- to 1815. Most of the books are during the Napoleon War era. At least 25 novels in the series. Extremely good reading.
Two of the best classes I ever took were touch typing one and two and speed reading one and two. Both actually taken in high school from 1964 to 1967, We learned touch typing on manual Underwood typewriters ... with blank keys.
You know ... the big heavy Clark Kent type typewriters using old fashioned inked ribbons. One key at a time. Nearly 50 years later it still serves me well. Who would have thunked it? Also easy to read slow for just enjoyment.
HB of CJ (old coot) Cm. I love this Forum!
I will have to check them out, 25 book would keep me busy for a minute.
DDHv wrote:I've been a bookworm as far back as first grade. Speed reading was learned five decades ago. One cure for book drought has been to purposely include a percentage of non-fiction. A list is kept of titles that look interesting but not locally available. This is turned over to the librarian about monthly. The net has been helping also.
Sometimes things turn up that are interesting in unexpected ways and slow me down, such as:
Jung, M. et al. 1992. First observation of bound-state β- decay. Physical Review Letters. 69 (15): 2164–2167.
or:
M. Ozima, S. Zashu, Y. Takigami and G. Turner, "Origin of the Anomalous 40Ar-36Ar Age of Zaire Cubic Diamonds: Excess 40Ar in Pristine Mantle Fluids," Nature, 337 (1989): pp. 226-229.
For some reason, speed reading doesn't help much with things on that level
I'm somewhat of a contrarian: my preference is to locate weak spots in any paradigm. There are many more of them than most people expect are possible.
Those would defiantly slow me down.