. I read "Six Days of the Condor" long before it was made into a movie (where they cut it down to 3 days). Setup: a bookish analyst is on the run from experienced operatives, manages to stay ahead of them and avoid all their traps. One baddie complains to another that their target has no experience, no training, how is he managing to avoid them? His fellow baddie answers, "He reads."
That felt like such a validation of my bookwormish childhood... and an attitude I wish we could convey to all the kids in all the schools everywhere. .
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I read "Six Days of the Condor" long before it was made into a movie (where they cut it down to 3 days). Setup: a bookish analyst is on the run from experienced operatives, manages to stay ahead of them and avoid all their traps. One baddie complains to another that their target has no experience, no training, how is he managing to avoid them? His fellow baddie answers, "He reads."
That felt like such a validation of my bookwormish childhood... and an attitude I wish we could convey to all the kids in all the schools everywhere.
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