[speaker001:] nope did I interrupt your reading schedule
[speaker002:] no been playing on my computer
[speaker001:] oh oh
[speaker002:] and
[speaker001:] well have you what have you read good lately
[speaker002:] um lately
[speaker001:] well well not not even lately tell me
[speaker002:] well uh let's see last book I read was a science fiction book called Weapon
[speaker001:] who's it by do you remember
[speaker002:] um uh it was it was his first book I think not very popular
[speaker001:] yeah my husband is a big science fiction uh reader but I don't uh care for it as much I don't have uh he's a computer man too so
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I think that sometimes goes hand in hand
[speaker002:] yeah what books are you into
[speaker001:] well uh I'm at a stand still right now but uh um we haven't lived in Charlotte very long
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and so uh and our furniture is stored somewhere else so I've had a lot of time I've read a lot of books but and this is uh one group of books I'm wondering if you've read that I I guess I started reading them two or three years ago by Jean Auel uh the first one was Clan of the Cave Bear
[speaker002:] um-hum no I sure haven't read that
[speaker001:] oh gosh that is wonderful
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and then the second uh book of hers was Valley of the Horses and the third one was the Mammoth Hunters are they sounding familiar
[speaker002:] yeah uh-huh yeah
[speaker001:] and her last one which I think waited everybody waited about a year or two for to come out
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh uh Plains of Passage
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] but uh uh I think Clan and and you have to read them in order you have to read the Clan first
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but that has that is the most different book that my I've read in many many years probably since Brave New World uh made such an impact on me many years ago
[speaker002:] oh yeah that's a good book
[speaker001:] and my husband says so too
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] the Clan so it's if you can pick those books up uh and sometimes they're packaged together those first three in paper back
[speaker002:] uh-huh well the last good book I read would be uh let me think uh the last series I read was Power that Preserves and have you ever read those by Donaldson
[speaker001:] yes I have
[speaker002:] yeah with the leper
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] good
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but how do you uh read more realistic books perhaps
[speaker002:] um what do you mean
[speaker001:] self-improvement or yeah how-to books
[speaker002:] yeah lot of computer books I guess
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] I'm into um neural networks and artificial intelligence
[speaker001:] you're into what I'm I'm terribly I I'm sorry I didn't
[speaker002:] neural networks and artificial intelligence
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] it's kind of what I've been studying in school and stuff
[speaker001:] uh-huh are you uh working or you a student
[speaker002:] right now I'm just looking for a job yeah
[speaker001:] are you well my husband is working uh temporary well under contract we had moved here after twenty years in Oklahoma
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] and he in fact he started with uh I guess uh well first generation computers
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and is that called mainframe
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and uh so he's under contract now with uh an insurance company that has bought many agencies so uh and they really needed he's an accountant also
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and so they needed someone to uh uh get things under control so he's been reading a lot about different kinds you know several agencies are on um uh one system uh some others are on other systems right now what's not red house but what's what's that
[speaker002:] um-hum red house
[speaker001:] oh I can't not red house uh the system I guess is what I'm trying to talk to um he's converting to it and then they will convert from it to another one later on
[speaker002:] uh-huh hm
[speaker001:] but he he's you know he he's good at and he's probably uh as good at troubleshooting as anybody that you can find
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but anyway uh let me talk are you uh are you married
[speaker002:] oh no
[speaker001:] do you have a girlfriend
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] yeah well there is a book that I want you to recommend to her
[speaker002:] all right
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and it's called and I can't I can't tell you exactly the author I get a lot of authors if I remember title remember the title I sometimes forget the author
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and it's called Women of Substance
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] and I believe that it's one of also one of the best books that I've ever read and there is a series of them
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh and I it's either by Belva Plain I think it was probably by Belva Plain but if you can just tell her to get that from the library that
[speaker002:] what's that about
[speaker001:] it's excellent
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] have you read Silence of the Lambs yet
[speaker002:] no I saw the movie yeah it's a good movie
[speaker001:] did you yeah I had I that's not my type of book so but it is my husband's and
[speaker002:] uh-huh I liked t he movie
[speaker001:] yeah yeah but uh one other thing I wanted to mention too someone uh a few years ago a dentist and his wife were getting rid of all their paper backs that they've read in the last few years and I they were going to take them down to the
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] oh the Y or somewhere like that
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and and I said well let me have them first and go through them and see which ones I want to read and she they said well sure take them all uh just take them to the Y when your finished
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and as I divided them into the books that I I would like and my husband picked out the ones he would like
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] those that he liked all had similar covers
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] the ones I liked had similar covers
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] and and the what's uh the the more uh those that he liked better were black and silver and gold and red and I'm talking about paper backs you know
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and I thought that was really you know we had two huge piles and all his were shiny like Christmas lights
[speaker002:] that's weird
[speaker001:] and mine were just blue and all that well it's been nice talking to you
[speaker002:] yeah thanks for calling
[speaker001:] and if I uh if I didn't do anything else I recommended a good book to uh another another woman
[speaker002:] all right I'll remember that all right bye
[speaker001:] okay good-bye