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>This certainly does not match up with my experience with my hobby of book consumption or the experiences of my friend who is a wine sommelier I could not thin
by EC1 11y ago
>This certainly does not match up with my experience with my hobby of book consumption or the experiences of my friend who is a wine sommelier
I could not think of someone I'd get along with less. You must be much older than me. This is exactly what I'm talking about. I'd never want to listen to someone tell me about the history of something, that's boring, that's regurgitation, I can google that. If you've made wine before though, that's definitely interesting.
- nathan_f77 11y agoI kind of agree about the wine sommelier, I don't want to go into that much detail about the history of wines. The movie "Somm" was enough for me. But I do like history, especially if it's directly related to the person I'm talking to, or the place I'm in. This Reddit thread was one of the most interesting things I've read recently: https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/3zgffa/what_is_the_most_extraordinary_feat_of_one_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/3zgffa/what_is_the... And I'm in Phnom Penh now, having done the tour of the Killing Fields and S-21 prison. Learning about Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, and even refreshing my memory about communism, the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, etc. I'm finding it all very interesting now. But also I agree with the commenter above you, "creative hobbies" would make more sense than "instigative".
- dfc 11y agoWhere do you see me talk about the "history of something"? Or do you think that "history of something" is the only genre of books?