Why I read
I am very average. In pretty much every respect.
As the DMV guy said when I finished my driving test, “You’re not great. You are OK at best”.
Like most people, I am sucker for good plotlines. And characters.
Difficulty empathizing with a stranger coming from a vastly different context is not a shortcoming I wish to ignore.
A reliable way to improve aspects of yourself is an added bonus.
Unless time travel is invented in this lifetime, I will never see the Romans getting beaten by the Germanic tribes or the pyramids of Egypt being erected.
But with a good book, I can get pretty goddam close.
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