manan dedhia

3 months ago

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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