Bleeding Red White Blue and Silver

I must say that since I've purchased a Kindle, I am really really really reading alot of books. I think I have about 120 active books in my kindle right now and I will keep adding to them!  Why read?  You have to be of the lowest form of human intelligence if you never read more than one book a decade.   I have given up completely on movies.  I might watch bits and pieces, but rarely will I see a movie these days. I loved the movies when I was younger, but I say that once you hit 34, you either mastered the miraculous content of the cinema or you are going to never get off the train.   I don't think that movie going is a bad thing, and in fact, I believe it to be a very strong educational material for the younger mind.  But that said, reading is where its meant to be.  I like to read a little bit of one book and put it down and read another.   Why read though?  Because the more you read books, the more you blend into humanity.  I must say that I am resurrecting many of the old literatures now,  Agatha Christie, Jules Verne, Herman Melville, Rudyard Kipling, Hawthorne and all the like.  Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton, David Eddings, John Grishom and all the other newer authors are just great.  I wont read it as fast as I can in any one book, but I will go as I go.  I have a new passion for books about Africa.   It started with Alan Paton's Cry the Beloved Country.  I have found What is the What, A new one called Half the Yellow Sun and one I just bought called Beneath the Lions Gaze.  Good reading.
If you dont read more than one of Elie Weisel's book in your time, you are really sincerely avoiding the assembly line of human faith and healing.   I hope that the older you get, the less time you spend in front of the screen and more behind a book.
The thing about reading is that you get to see the thoughts and emotions of a human being in a verbal form.  It totally replaces the minute experiences of visual forms of media.  I do feel that we have many emotional moments in the cinema, but that said, it hits you fast and it takes you away, but reading will give you the money you need to build that tower in your mind.   Cinema just gives you a powerful train ride.  There is a difference.