[speaker001:] say Arlington Texas now since I got somebody from Arlington Virginia one day yeah
[speaker002:] is that right yeah well I never thought about that but there is an Arlington like I I had a card the other day from Birmingham Michigan
[speaker001:] oh Birmingham
[speaker002:] uh you know and I was thinking yeah and I was thinking the only Birmingham I could think of was Alabama
[speaker001:] right it's funny how many names have been used uh all over the country
[speaker002:] yeah well tell me what kind of books have you read
[speaker001:] but uh well to tell you the truth I've been going to college for the last four years so mainly text books
[speaker002:] I was gonna say not fun kind right
[speaker001:] no um but I I really tend to like biographies a lot not necessarily always heavy ones but you know sometimes biographies I just read one about Grace Kelly I I love to read about
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] real people to me half the time it's more fascinating than some of these made up stories
[speaker002:] yeah it is because you know that it's really and truly a the true thing you know I read one about Bob Hope that I liked
[speaker001:] yeah it happened it happened really
[speaker002:] yeah that was real good I'm like you if it's not a heavy biography you know I enjoy it
[speaker001:] right I used to like to read about royalty a lot I read when I was younger I read about every king and queen that lived I think in Europe that was my thing for a while
[speaker002:] I'm trying to think uh I read a uh a novel that used the names of like Princess Di and Prince Phillip coming over here to be entertained and all and there was a murder yeah it was sometime ago seems like it was The Spy Went Dancing or something like that uh
[speaker001:] oh really oh it sounds like fun
[speaker002:] it was a lot of fun because they used these real names you know
[speaker001:] wonder if it was by one of those famous writers you know Margaret Truman Daniels writes a lot those
[speaker002:] yes in fact I believe it was because uh-huh I believe it
[speaker001:] really sounds like something she would write
[speaker002:] yeah I think it was by her that you mention it because uh someone had given it to me and I thought well this will be great and it was
[speaker001:] yeah I've heard heard that she's done real you know her books are really interesting and they always sell well
[speaker002:] um-hum well when you use real people like that I think you know and royalty especially you know
[speaker001:] and uh yeah brings it to life I know uh the British some of the British people laugh at us because we're so enthralled with their royalty
[speaker002:] yeah but you know that's like them being enthralled with our football and so forth you know
[speaker001:] I know our movie stars
[speaker002:] our movie stars because it's totally different concept to us
[speaker001:] oh right
[speaker002:] but I haven't I haven't had a chance to read a lot lately either I have read uh mostly novels I went to visit my daughter in Florida and I took a novel with me oh
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] and read it at Thanksgiving time and um it was uh one of those generation novels you know starts out when they're small and continues through generations and I like that you know
[speaker001:] oh yes oh I always like those have you ever read anything by Susan Howatch
[speaker002:] yes I have
[speaker001:] isn't she fabulous
[speaker002:] oh she is wonderful
[speaker001:] oh once you start I don't like to get one of her books because I I just live to read I'll I'll skip everything just to get back to the book
[speaker002:] I stayed up one night I think till two in the morning finishing one of hers because I start I could not put it down
[speaker001:] oh yeah she's just uh I don't know does she how often does she come out with them I probably have missed the last few since I've been back in school
[speaker002:] well no it seems like she doesn't write as often as oh well like Danielle Steele and those silly things she writes the same thing
[speaker001:] oh well she can she can turn them out overnight I swear
[speaker002:] yeah and and they're the same silly things I mean if you've read one there I mean it's you know it's
[speaker001:] yeah I've never read a whole one of hers I don't think
[speaker002:] it it's practically the same thing over and over you know
[speaker001:] and think how rich she is
[speaker002:] yeah wouldn't I you know I'm criticizing her and wouldn't I like to have her money
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] you know because they go from hardback to paperback and she has millions of them um-hum
[speaker001:] and then make movies out of some of them or
[speaker002:] you know miniseries and so forth but I seems to me like Susan Howatch does not write as often I have not seen as many of hers
[speaker001:] right well hers are so involved and they're and so such a higher intellectual level because she quotes a lot you know
[speaker002:] um-hum I think she does a lot of research too
[speaker001:] I do too so she couldn't possibly turn them out like some of these popular writers but oh her books are just incredible I don't think they've ever made a movie do you
[speaker002:] huh-uh yeah no I don't think so and I've often wondered why haven't you you know I
[speaker001:] yes well no uh I really just thought about it now but there's just maybe it's because they take so much in I don't know
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum maybe they're just too involved for the average person to go and sit through them you know
[speaker001:] um-hum they're so big they're such you know it would be like another Gone with the Wind I guess a three hour movie
[speaker002:] um-hum  yeah well and maybe that turns people off but look at Gone with the Wind you know
[speaker001:] oh I know it's about one of my favorite movies
[speaker002:] uh have you uh gotten into Scarlett yet
[speaker001:] no it had such a bad press I wasn't too intrigued
[speaker002:] I yeah that's exactly what I was gonna say I was amazed because I in the beginning when it was on you know on route coming out I heard mixed publicity you know kind of good and bad
[speaker001:] um-hum right
[speaker002:] and then when it came out all I heard was just uh how bad it was that I didn't even wanna get it
[speaker001:] me either do you know anyone that's read it
[speaker002:] hum-um
[speaker001:] no I haven't heard of anybody that's read it either but it was I think it was on the best-seller list though for a while
[speaker002:] no well it wouldn't surprise me