[speaker002:] all right so we started recording already
[speaker001:] uh I guess I don't know it's the first time I've made a phone call on it
[speaker002:] oh so you pressed one okay so I guess we're supposed to start talking uh what kind of books do you read
[speaker001:] right  I read uh a lot of Steven King Dean R Koontz uh some Danielle Steel my aunt got me hooked on those
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum so it's mostly all novels okay
[speaker001:] so I yeah they're all novels I'll read some of classic too
[speaker002:] oh like what
[speaker001:] um well I like The Grapes Of Wrath by Steinbeck an I like um
[speaker002:] uh yeah I like that I like Steinbeck a lot
[speaker001:] a A Rose For Emily by Faulkner that's one of my favorite
[speaker002:] I have never read a lot of Faulkner
[speaker001:] oh and this this is more of a play or something that it that it was from that that I saw and I read the book from that
[speaker002:] oh cool
[speaker001:] and by the way my name's Bill I'm from North Carolina
[speaker002:] I'm Doug I'm from Pennsylvania
[speaker001:] um um I let's see what kind of books do you like to read
[speaker002:] um well a bunch of stuff I guess um fair number of novels but mostly shorter ones and like I don't really like the you know six hundred page long Stephen King novels and all that right
[speaker001:] I really have to be in the mood I I read one like maybe once a year of those
[speaker002:] um-hum no like I like say uh Richard Broudigan a lot um okay he's um
[speaker001:] I've never read anything by him
[speaker002:] he's dead now but he was really a pretty amazing writer he wrote books that were like pretty short and pretty easy to read you know like written at a third grade level or whatever but they were still very heavy and philosophical also very funny like he wrote Trout Fishing in America
[speaker001:] yeah okay
[speaker002:] so that's anyway and um I read a lot of nonfiction books too um let's see
[speaker001:] I like to read read a lot of nonfiction history when Civil War era and
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and that kind of thing I I found that real interesting I'm reading The Lion and the Wind right now and that was on TV it was uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh now what's that
[speaker001:] sometime during Teddy Roosevelt's time
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and um about about American woman that got kidnapped in um Morocco
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh this is when they were having their revolution or whatever and Teddy Roosevelt sent troops over and really portrays him as a kind of a crazy man
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] surprised me I had no idea that he was like that
[speaker002:] um-hum what how crazy
[speaker001:] well just like some some uh one quote that he had was that he thought the America's emblem was stupid because it was an eagle and it should be a grizzly bear because he liked the to
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] to to hunt grizzly and stuff like that
[speaker002:] I see
[speaker001:] so it was it was I saw the movie and that's what uh made me want to read the book Candice Bergen was in the movie I'm a real big fan of hers so
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah cool see I also read a lot of books about music because I'm interested in that and fair number of stuff about science and also philosophy things
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] what
[speaker001:] I like I like to read some of the philosophy stuff stuff stuff
[speaker002:] um-hum like let's see and even like reading some new age things things that I don't quite believe in like here on my shelf I have a book called Journeys Out of the Body
[speaker001:] yeah I think that I'm fascinated by that yeah I'm fascinated by that
[speaker002:] it's all about how to have out of body experiences and all of that um-hum yep
[speaker001:] that and and uh even stuff about not like ghost stories but real encounters with ghosts and supposedly haunted houses I like I'm kind of a doubting Thomas and I like to read stuff like that
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] some of it really freaks me out
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum you're right definitely
[speaker001:] um and I like to read um I like to read some self help books like um I read Dianetics once once I got past all the gibberish on it and
[speaker002:] uh did you like it
[speaker001:] it was okay it it it it took me a while to really get into it it didn't help me that much but uh I think once you're set in your ways you're set in your ways
[speaker002:] um-hum I see yeah
[speaker001:] um then I one interesting real interesting book I read recently was when I was looking for a job I read How to Get the Job That You Wanted and it it had real good tips in it and
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I got the job that I wanted by applying the the methods that that they