Aspies For Freedom

I'm just reading "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson, and read a bit of it every night when I go to bed.

I like reading books on how to make your own telescope, or Van der Graff Generator, or magnetometer.

I don't  read many novels because I often find there are too many characters doing too many things at once, so I sometimes just read what happens to one character, or give up on the book altogether.

My favourite Sherlock Holmes story is "The Copper Beeches," because the woman wears a green dress. "The Speckled Band" is the most frightening.

My favourite film is 84 Charing Cross Road.

oh Amy I like the Miss Marple stories best, especially "4.50 from Paddington."

Another Miss Marple story is "The Body in the Library" which is like Cluedo, isn't it?

The lady whose house I clean on Thursdays
has invited me to a Party on Saturday, so I must iron my black wool skirt tonight, or I will forget.

Best Wishes,

Stella

oh yes Amy, I love Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple. I think Margaret Rutheford was in the film of "4.50 from Paddington."

I agree with you about fiction.  So many of those thick novels have so many people in the them, and switch from one place to another so often I can't seem to follow them at all. Sometimes you start a book like that, and are enjoying it, and then it switches to someone completely different in a different place, so I sometimes skip those bits, and just read the parts about the same character so I can follow what's going on.

But I like Huckleberry Finn, Black Beauty, What Katy Did, and Pollyanna which have got clear stories in them.

Thank you for asking about Miss Marple.

Stella

I like most books. I have a blog of book reviews- http://www.bibliofiles.blogspot.com. I like books with my interests best, but I also like science fiction. I get very mad when books have highly improbable/impossible scenes, and bad puctuation ruins books for me.  After I read books, I often immitate the characters, which gets on my family's nerves, so I try not to read books with weird dialects too often.

I am reading/have read,
Oxford Dictionary Of Biology,
Oxford Dictionary Of Physics,
Strange Worlds Amazing Places: A Tour Of Eath's Marvels And Mysteries,
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians,
The Peoples Of Europe: The Huns,
Hamlet,
Atlas Of World History,
Sphere,
2001,
and The American Heritage Dictionary

After all this I am surprised I don't need glasses yet, though I probably will soon.[i]

Why not, after all every book that have ever been written started as words in a dictionary. There are so many fascinating (e.g. good, great, interesting, neat, pleasant, enjoyable, wonderful, terrific) words to find(e.g. expore, discover, learn of, uncover).

I almost never pay any atension (mispelled) to how there spelled. I like the etymology part more.

Etymology fascinates me, I just love language/s.  I can't bring myself to read a dictionary, but I love flipping through and reading the definitions of incredibly obscure words.  I haven't even got around to reading the bible yet, so I don't know when I'll get to the dictionary.

As for what books I read, I like 'classic' science fiction (as opposed to 'sci-fi').  Stuff like Isaac Asimov (now, did he have an ASD?  I read his autobiography, and he sounds suspicious to me, as does his son) Arthur C Clarke and Robert Heinlein.  I've got a wonderful big book with every short story of Arthur C Clarke's, which I adore, and I've got about 60 books by Isaac Asimov on my shelf.  Also, I love JRR Tolkien, I've got most of his books.

Yay! a book thread! working in a Lib i am spoilt for choice.
The Curious incident of the dog in the night time. i raved about this to anyone who would listen. probably put them off it and me. :-(
the pratchett man saved me 10 years ago when i was deep in hell.
have become bored with his adult discworld stuff now, but am enjoying his foray into girlwitches as this is at about my emotional growth level. quietly brilliant and lots of granny weatherwax wisdom.mmmm.
Douglas Adams for years. Jeff Noon. Not so amusing but peculiar concepts. etc.
Tend to read two different types. I read for my emotional age, because i am trying to do some bits i missed out on. I have learnt about showing and telling and friendship. I also love Rhyme out loud like Roald Dahl and Dr Suess. Have a particular fondness for certain picture books. A good kids book should appeal to adults too.

Then i read for my intellectual age, mostly biological sciences and other cultures. i enjoy writers with a sense of humour or who are obviously addicted to their topic. I  like Bill Bryson and Oliver Sacks. David Horrobin wrote a thought provoking theory about what we call schizophrenia, from an evolutionary perspective, The Madness of Adam and Eve.
I am currently reading Mad in America, a history of psychiatric treatment. It is depressing but want to find out where it all went wrong and why.

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I recently found (but didn't buy) a book that I had been I just want find for some time. Birds of the West Indies, by James Bond . The author of the Bond books (I forgot his name) desided that the name sounded boring enough to use for a for his main character.

Recently...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams(LOVE it. Sometimes I feel exactly about life as this book does)
The Wheel of Time, Book I by Robert Jordan
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil by James Luceno
Yoda: Dark Rendezvous by Sean Stewart

Anyone who likes Douglas Adams should read Terry Pratchet,  hes quite amusing.

Currently reading Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.

Ever seen the Blackadder show about Dr Johnson?   Very reverent...

Another good book: "Defending the Cavewoman and other tales of evolutionary neurology" by Harold L. Klawans. It's fascinating and easy to understand without being overly simple. It examines case studies and explains how certain "bad traits" may actually be useful, just for a purpose we may not see. Very interesting read.