When he was a boy, the author:
avoided books .
looked at books but didn't read them
preferred videos to books
read enthusiastically
Students at university used to spend the evenings:
discussing philosophy
reading short books
thinking deeply
the author doesn't say how they spent the evenings
At work, the author:
didn't have to read
didn't have to read books
didn't have to read manuals and pamphlets
didn't have to read contracts and documents
The author:
hardly read a book for ten years
doesn't read books
hasn't read a book for ten years
didn't read a book for ten years
Now the author
doesn't have a TV
has a TV next to his bed
has a computer with a TV inside it
has a computer instead of a TV
Vocabulary: Choose word for this definition Very important because of its, often negative, effect on the future
peer
scour
fateful
avid
Vocabulary: Choose word for this definition Extremely eager or interested
The author probably read "Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in PostIndustrial Society"
in 1972
in 1982
in 1992
. in 1993
Vocabulary: Choose word for this definition . To search (a place or thing) very carefully in order to try to find something
Vocabulary: Choose word for this definition A person who is the same age or has the same social position or the same abilities as other people in a group