[speaker001:] okay so what books do you like to read
[speaker002:] well all kinds to tell you the truth uh mostly I like uh um science fiction science fantasy type books
[speaker001:] like what what authors
[speaker002:] uh well let me see uh well the most my favorite ones are kind of an old author Edgar Rice Burroughs
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and he had a uh series of uh called John Carter Of Mars I don't know if you're familiar with it or not but uh he's the one that wrote Tarzan Of The Apes and all that too and uh and uh
[speaker001:] no I'm not okay yeah heard of that
[speaker002:] and uh he uh he had one where this guy was a Civil War soldier and and uh made some trips to Mars and stuff I thought it was really interesting plus I I liked Pierce Anthony uh the one about uh Zanth I don't know if you're familiar with that
[speaker001:] oh that's interesting no I really I have never really never never read science fiction much
[speaker002:] and well that was more fantasy I guess and uh because it's kind of neat because it has a lot of puns and stuff you know in it and so it's kind of funny too and then uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker002:] then I like uh what else do I have there oh it's a series of another fantasy but it's Fred Saberhagen Saberhagen and it's the it's uh The Sword Series which I liked and uh Gore I like too it's another fantasy one
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh starting I think I'm going to start pick up a few uh more science fiction as far as well as Isaac Asimov have a number of his books too and H G Wells
[speaker001:] right that's older stuff
[speaker002:] yeah uh but but I think they're pretty good and uh and then I'm I think I'm going to start picking up some of the newer Star Treks because I hear they're pretty good too
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I had a professor at school whose sister wrote a Star Trek episode wrote one of those novels that yeah as under this fake name she wrote it in she's a professor at another university and it was
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] kind of a hush hush thing that she'd written this book so we all had to read it for a sociology class so um no I don't the author was like Madge Larson or something like that it was a kind of feminist
[speaker002:] do you know which which one was it uh-huh
[speaker001:] Star Trek people on a it's the the woman had been a POW in Vietnam who wrote it and so she she's one of the first female POW's and so she had um
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] kind of paralleled that with kind of a space version of it and it was kind of it was interesting I don't know if it was interesting just because I knew the person who'd written it or if it was actually a good book
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker001:] but I've never really read a lot of science fiction it's
[speaker002:] uh-huh well I sort of read mostly in high school and uh you know and I and I like it you know as as kind as the light reading and everything and uh I recently uh completed graduate school and I've really kind of got interested
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] through a number a couple of classes that I took there on on history and stuff and I've gotten a number of history books but I haven't read any yet you know uh
[speaker001:] right oh but you've got them so that
[speaker002:] yeah but I've got them and they're ready to go that's right but uh I was kind of getting into you know like uh you know like medieval times and stuff like that and just as to just to do some reading about what went on and everything
[speaker001:] halfway there so that's good uh-huh yeah I've I've read a lot of medieval literature this year in school a lot of like took a class in Chaucer so we were reading in the Middle English and all that and that was a lot of fun kind of weird but
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh yeah and what what which ones do you like
[speaker001:] um well I'm uh I like a lot of contemporary short stories um
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] authors authors like Bobbie Ann Mason she's from Kentucky and writes a lot of just kind of contemporary realism sort of stuff um John Barthelme who wrote he just died a few years ago and he wrote kind of weird avant-garde
[speaker002:] um uh-huh
[speaker001:] short fiction and then like in the sixties through the late eighties and he was kind of responsible for turning around the short story movement so that was kind of neat um
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] if I'm reading kind of trashy stuff I like um I guess kind of mystery books and then stuff that's funny I like pretty much any humor book
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and gosh oh
[speaker002:] well I've got those as far as humor I've got a couple of Irma Bombecks too
[speaker001:] oh that's fun
[speaker002:] yeah and then also there there's another one I don't know you might have read it The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy yeah there's a series well it was a trilogy with four books and uh have you read those
[speaker001:] uh-huh right no I I I have one of them sitting on my bookshelf and I just never picked it up
[speaker002:] do you yeah they're they're pretty funny because it's really kind of interesting and uh uh those are are kind of neat too and I've read uh I like Steve well I like some of Stephen King
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I I like him
[speaker002:] I I'm not really too I don't really like his endings so much but uh I think some of his books are pretty good and then there the other one that I've read a little bit is uh um oh God let me go look at his name here it's the one that wrote uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah I used to
[speaker002:] um I can't even think of his see oh here oh Clive Barker
[speaker001:] oh what have you read by him
[speaker002:] uh The Books Of Blood and uh Cable Cable I guess how you say just you know some paperbacks and stuff
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh I've never read anything I got a book of his out of the library just the other day to try it out I'd been to England and thought you know he's like the British Stephen King so oh really I'll have to
[speaker002:] oh did you uh-huh well I like him better than Stephen King yeah he he he's pretty he's pretty good
[speaker001:] oh well he's next on my list to read I'm reading a little private eye book now
[speaker002:] yeah and then of course I've read the uh Clancy books
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you know uh Hunt For Red October and Red Storm Riding Rising
[speaker001:] oh those are the ones my dad keeps trying to get me to read but I
[speaker002:] well actually you know Red Storm I haven't I've started Red Storm Rising but uh I really recommend Hunt For Red October
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] because it really it's good and and it keeps going pretty quick but the Red Storm Rising I've heard and then it's been apparent the first you know few pages or whatever it's kind of slow in starting and everything
[speaker001:] well that's good right
[speaker002:] but it's not a bad book at all
[speaker001:] well that's interesting I read I like Moby Dick that's a that's my big book that I like
[speaker002:] yeah yeah actually I I I got an old copy of Moby Dick that I like too I read a while back
[speaker001:] that's one I just my very very favorite book so if I had to go read something again I'd probably read Moby Dick or Scarlet Letter I also like
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah oh probably liked Star Trek Two didn't you
[speaker001:] no I actually have never seen any of the Star Trek movies was that oh well that's interesting I had a roommate in school who did a did you ever see the movie Heathers
[speaker002:] oh you hadn't Two was really good because he quoted a lot from Moby Dick no I didn't
[speaker001:] oh it's it's kind of this sort of black comedy movie about this these kids in high school who are not real popular and they kill all the popular kids in the class it's it's kind of bleak but it's sort of fun and they do a lot of Moby Dick I had a roommate who wrote a whole paper on Moby Dick and Heathers and
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh wow
[speaker001:] and well I I thought it was a little much but it was kind of fun
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I like John Irving that's
[speaker002:] John Irving yeah
[speaker001:] he hasn't written much in a while but when he does I'm pretty happy with it
[speaker002:] yeah oh yeah that's good
[speaker001:] yeah I'm trying to think what else I've read that I've really just loved I don't know how I it's hard to read when you're in school it's like you just read those textbooks and that's it
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I know and that will have to do
[speaker001:] but I guess maybe in the real world too you just don't have time to read but
[speaker002:] yeah that's pretty much the way it is usually I try to I have some a book or two by the bed and then maybe like I get to read for twenty minutes before I go to sleep or something
[speaker001:] uh-huh and then you fall asleep and have to reread it the next night because you forgot what you've read yeah I I do that too oh I like Larry McMurtry he's good and like Lonesome Dove was
[speaker002:] yep that's right yeah uh-huh
[speaker001:] it was a long book but it was really good
[speaker002:] well I understand that Peter Benchley is coming out with a new one yeah I just read an article the other day you know uh because I have this Jaws book here and I think he's going to call it The Beast or something like that it's about a squid
[speaker001:] really uh-huh oh
[speaker002:] so you know whether or not it will be as good as you know Jaws was I don't I don't know
[speaker001:] I liked Jaws and The Deep and The Island those were pretty good so I would read that
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh yeah Jaws actually have have you read the first one the book
[speaker001:] yeah