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When I was in jail with (almost) zero distractions I read 100 books a year and 100s of magazines each year.

Since release 5 months ago I have read a total of zero, but I am getting back into it. The real world is distracting.



I often have a fantasy of long periods of uninterrupted time to be able to just read. But jail time is not part of that fantasy! You seemed to have made the best possible use of your time though. I read some of your previous comments, I would be very interested to read your story when you are ready to put it on paper.


While I was in jail I read in 1Q84 that the only place a man has time to read the whole of Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" is in jail. So I had it sent in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time (4,215 pages apparently)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Q84




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