End Of a Era.

[Sumpter250]

I remember "The Saturday Evening Post" and "Life"

Alistair Maclean's "The Guns of Navarone" was published as a 'serial' , in the Saturday Evening Post, somewhere in the late Fifties?. I remember reading that story, one issue at a time, and the long ....wait.... between issues.
A friend, who had introduced me to Tolkien's writings with "The Hobbit", handed me a Paperback of "The Lord of The Rings" Trilogy. I read that, non-stop, from Saturday afternoon at about 4:30 PM, to Sunday night at about 10:30 PM.
Try that with a laptop :o
Yeah kids, I am "older than the Grinch", and I will remember more from reading the written word, than I could ever possibly remember from reading it on a computer screen.
OK, It was a bit of a pain, reading a story, cut into stone tablets ! I do believe that is where the 'term', "Heavy Reading", might have originated.