Excellent thread. Thank you for the wonderful recommendations.
Mrs. Tuttle and I both read quite a bit, but mostly modern mystery fiction. With both books and TV, I am conscious and unapologetic that I mostly seek escape and whimsy rather than weight. Having long ago rejected academia as vocation, I read for pleasure rather than work.
Since it had been so long for me, I went back and re-read the Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe) and John D. MacDonald (Travis McGee) books. Loved 'em again.
I thought Eragon was a truly horrible movie.
Like Jack, I long ago learned that - as long as I have a book - I can be content practically anywhere with or without other people. As is attributed to Groucho Marx - "Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read."
