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Maverick

I always was a big reader. The J-dud Master would warn me about reading too much non-dud material. I was always taking college classes and borrowing text books and would exhaust authors writings,( read all the books they published).

All my neighbors know I am an ex JW and several have talked to me about the 40 days of purpose by Rick Warren. I read his stuff and watched a group leader video he has out, and found it nauseating. The guy is a moron!

But Dansk if you have anything good to offer I'll look at it. But it has to require more than ten brain cells to hold my interests! Ricks book only took two! Maverick

Sentinel

I always loved to read from my youth on up. For so long, there was always so much JW literature to read that I had little time to explore elsewhere. We were forbidden to read many subjects that interested me.

Now I am like a sponge!

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Strawberryfieldsforever

I read much more after leaving the JW's. I used to feel guilty about not finishing my WT and Awake mags. I hated reading them. They were sooooo boring! Now I love to read novels. Mary Higgins Clark is one of my favorite authors and John Grisham. I can read for hours at night!

maxwell

I've read less, although I really should read more. The brain needs to stay active and keep learning. I have read Crisis of Conscience and a couple other secular books about JW. When I was a kid I loved to read sci-fi and mystery novels. I've read a few sci-fi novels as an adult and I enjoyed re-reading 1984 lately. In the future, I plan to read Animal Farm and Darwin's classic writings (can't remember the title right now). I figure that I've read creation propaganda all my life, so I might as well see what the other side has to say without the filtering done by the watchtower publications.

MorpheuzX

After I left the WTS I stopped reading religious materials completely. I made a slight switch into philosophy. I believe the first two books I read after leaving the WTS were Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols and Beyond Good and Evil. That lead me into reading a very wide range of seemingly unrelated philosophers, anyone from Sun Tzu(The Art of War), to Thomas More(Utopia), to Machiavelli(The Prince), to Plato(The Republic), to Lao Tzu(Tao Te Ching) to Noam Chomsky(Necessary Illusions). I was trying to find anything to help me better understand the world and in a way those books all did.

Later in college I had to do a systematic study of philosophy all the way from the ancients like Heraclites and Anaxagoras to the more contemporary like Jean-Paul Sartre, Peter Singer, and John Rawls. And let me just digress and say that after all that I once almost embraced existentialism and totally abhor utilitarian philosophy.

After I got all of that philosophy junk out of my system I read virtually ever single book published by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Irvine Welsh, Thomas Harris, Stephen King, Albert Camus and a load of books by Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, John Steinbeck, Jean Genet, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- a diverse group, but all worth reading.

I also own and have read nearly the entire poetic works of William Shakespeare (wrote some fantastic sonnets), Silvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Frost.

These days I find myself reading less books and print, in general. I find myself much more interested in reading the content of The Economist, the NYT, and the Washington Post. In fact, I'm only reading one book at the present and it is a laughable work written by Rick Warren. It's a book for the Christian fundamentalist out there, wrought with contrived emotionalism ? you know the whole, "Jesus loves you so much" gibberish. I'm about half way through it and I'm not sure if my stomach is going to allow me to finish.

So, I guess I read more.

reboot

ive always read alot too Dans, but do read alot more now

It's nice to have more spare time to hole up with a book.Usually have about three books on the go...I like reading anything but usually it's travel/survival books and historical biogs and Classic English Literature.My tastes change with the weather too!

Classic lit./Antartic adventure in the winter with the fire on and wine...and move on to middle Eastern/African travel in the garden as the weather hots up

Wild_Thing

yes

Wild_Thing

I also watch much more porn.

wheres caleb?

While part of the organization, I only read non-fiction. I felt that anything else was superfluous. When some of what the organization taught turned out to be fiction (new light), I started to enjoy fiction. I love to read. Reading is fun.

L_A_Big_Dawg

Yes, I found that I read much more. I made it a goal to read at least one book a month. The key for me was to read stuff that I would have never read a J-dub. I mostly read non-fiction, but when I dabble into fiction I slide towards Tom Clancy ( love the entire John Ryan series), and alternative history (how about an alternative history of the J-dubs? Like if J.F. Rutherford was thrown out before taking control of the Borg?).

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