As I have said earlier in this correspondence, personal experience is always better than that received through literature; which by it's nature is second-hand and may not relate to what you have experienced or want to experience yourself. There are people who have never read a book but have done things equal to anything that one might read in novels. Sitting in an armchair surrounded by thousands of books is an artificial substitute for life itself even though we may have enjoyed what they contain. None of the writers that might be able to help you could do so without having experienced life above and beyond the ability to put it into writing. Writers can make the mundane interesting by their skill in presentation but that doesn't mean that their readers should accept it as a substitute for their own lives.
I'm not obsessed with how many read, I'm obsessed with getting the most experiences out of literature I can.
You could be right, I really don't know as I haven't counted them, there is also the fact that I have re read some of them a number of times. In the long run it doesn't matter how many books someone reads, so much as what they have read. The main concerns are whether one has enjoyed them and whether anything has been learned from them.
Only hundreds? Its sounds like you've read at least several thousand books.
I don't know exactly but I suppose it would be several hundred. I don't read much these days as I have other things to do but if something is of particular interest I will find time for it. Modern writers don't interest me and one of the useful things about this forum is that I can get some idea of what's being written nowadays and thus avoid wasting time on books that don't seem to me to be worth reading.
Have many real books have you read?
I did a range of jobs over a long period of time, mostly in local and central government agencies.
So, what did you do for a living?
I don't remember, I was only a child at the time, but it was probably something like this: http://youtu.be/bzc6BFAVgRo Or possibly this: http://youtu.be/ew4LwBUzX5A
What was the piece that made you fell in love with classical music?
