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[sweetnpetite]

I really love psychology. So much so that I can read pages and pages of stuff that most people would find extremly boring. I even have to read it slowly outloud and more than once to get it, but I am just so fascinated that I don't care. I even have a whole book of Freud's writings (although i haven't even come close to reading it cover to cover, I usually just open it and read about dreams or something).

So what are you drawn to, obsessed with, whatever to the extent that you would basically read textbooks on in your spare time. (I happen to be like that with many things, but there is one really good example)

 

[sweetnpetite]

uh... bump!

 

[rgraham666]

History. I love it.

 

[sweetnpetite]

History. I love it.

Oh I love history too!

I always feel the need to point out to everyone that despite popular belief, history *isn't* written in stone!

 

[TxRad]

Oh I love history too!

I always feel the need to point out to everyone that despite popular belief, history *isn't* written in stone!

That's cause history is always written by the winning side......

Sometime they don't hide all the evidence to the contrary......

I think I was 15 when I spent the summer reading the complete Comptons Peoples Encyclopedia.... Why you ask? Because it was there, I guess is the best answer.... The local Library was closed for remodeling and it was to far to another one...

The things I still remember are scary sometimes....

 

[WyoD_S]

For me it is metals and mechanical engineering.

Metallurgy is fascinating, what can be done by combining the different elements with heat, pressure, vacuum, etc...

Mechanical engineering is even more fascinating. Studying how things work down to the minute details can keep me spellbound for hours.

My bookshelves are filled with metallugy texts, engineering texts, books about gear ratios, actuators, levers, machining, hydraulics, pneumatics, electronics, blacksmithing, etc... etc...

When I am not here, writing, or working I am out in my shop either making something or designing something to make. Most projects are for my own fulfillment or for friends, every once in awhile I'll make a short run of some fun project to sell.

 

[babiesmiles]

Management and law books !
but yeah I am a perv

 

[yui]

So what are you drawn to, obsessed with, whatever to the extent that you would basically read textbooks on in your spare time. (I happen to be like that with many things, but there is one really good example)

Language. Especially those that aren’t my own. I have 24 dictionaries in 15 different languages on the shelf above me computer … <cough> that doesn’t even touch the materials I have in my bookcases.

 

[Liar]

Maps. When I was a kid, I could just be lost in a world atlas for hours and hours. And now I have Google Earth. It's the same thing all over again.

And language. Not languageS, I don't hve the patience to learn new lingos, but language communication and how that works.

 

[Aurora Black]

I'm partial to Psychology, as well. I love it all, but the biological aspect of it sticks out the most in my mind. I love how the brain works.

 

[JRaven]

Broke computers.
Nothing else can zone me out as well. I love poking and prodding, nursing a dead PC back to being a healthy, functioning machine.
Otherwise, it would be history.

Jenny

 

[sweetnpetite]

bump.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I really love psychology. So much so that I can read pages and pages of stuff that most people would find extremly boring. I even have to read it slowly outloud and more than once to get it, but I am just so fascinated that I don't care. I even have a whole book of Freud's writings (although i haven't even come close to reading it cover to cover, I usually just open it and read about dreams or something).

So what are you drawn to, obsessed with, whatever to the extent that you would basically read textbooks on in your spare time. (I happen to be like that with many things, but there is one really good example)

History - picked up a master's in contemporary US history.
Anthropology - can't think of a better avocation than to be on Pacific Island with a bunch of bare-breasted native girls doing hands-on research.

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Rumple Foreskin

 

[scheherazade_79]

Propaganda in the arts and media
Forensic linguistics
WW2

 

[Remec]

So what are you drawn to, obsessed with, whatever to the extent that you would basically read textbooks on in your spare time. (I happen to be like that with many things, but there is one really good example)

Comic book continuity, some of my favorite scifi/fantasy realms (Oz, Wonderland, Pern, Federation Space), Magic:The Gathering are the first three to come to mind.

 

[Aurora Black]

I'm not much of a Freud fan. I'm drawn more to Jung and Piaget.

A case that never fails to fascinate me is that of Phineas Gage.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Forensic linguistics

You've got to tell me about this! What in the world is forensic linguistics? It sounds fascinating.

For me, I'm not sure. A good book on almost any subject can grab me, but in the library lately I've been grabbing books on the history of religion. It's always been an interest of mine.

Anything but economics. I simply can't understand or care about economics.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

So what are you drawn to, obsessed with, whatever to the extent that you would basically read textbooks on in your spare time. (I happen to be like that with many things, but there is one really good example)

Philosophy (excluding the ridiculous "Philosophy of XXXX" style pop-culture stuff, and anything existential) and things written in Attic Greek (or Coine). I roll like that.

 

[TitilateMe]

I'll read anything.

I'm so geeky that I was reading a book about diaries of women who were part of the Westward expansion, and found out that it worked with a paper on Moby Dick I was writing. Translation - pleasure reading --->research.

I also like linguists (not just cunning ones), especially Umberto Eco. He writes good literary criticism, too.