Originally Posted by deafskeptic

Nods, I'm the same way myself. I'll read things even if they're a challenge for me. My father and I used to fight over me reading books that he thought were too hard for me. I think Jame Joyce's book Ulysses is a challenge for me.

I remember reading Moby Dick years go and he said the book is very complex. He didn't think I understood it. I said I did understand it but sometimes I have to reread the book to pick up on stuff I missed the first time around. The last time I visited my family I read part of War and Peace. I must confess I didn't finish it.

When I came over last summer, I read Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I remember thinking that his book prolly didn't go over well with Christians.

My dad said to me he couldn't understand why I'd read a such a dull book. I don't think history is dull to me. Granted, I'd prefer more recent editions but that's what I had to read at my parents home.

He keeps telling me that most people are into TV and MTV and that I'm too much the intellectaul when it comes to cartoons. I take it he's never read Doonsbury (I don't read doonsbury) or other comics like Neil Gaiman's Sandman series.