Rebecca was no Damascene conversion; I still preferred reading MacLean and Francis to anything else.
Mr. Hogan preferred reading classical literature; Mr. Morgenthau is more into history.
Detective Oakwood considered composing his own mystery novel but wisely decided he preferred reading them to writing them.
And he preferred reading Jane Austen to doing multivariate analysis.But system-building often produces castles in the air rather than enduring insights.
Like members of any passionate subculture, they debated purism: Most said they preferred reading manga on paper to its electronic form.
When I asked her what she thought an intellectual was, she said it was someone who "valued education" and preferred reading to sports.
It's clear that he was still agonising over Sylvia Plath's legacy, and that he preferred reading Shakespeare and fishing on royal estates to the 'claustrophobic clockwork chamber' of contemporary English poetry.
As a freshman at Stanford, he preferred reading books to sitting with people in the dining hall, and, when asked if he was abnormal, told people that he found them abnormal for not preferring books.
"I gladly took it just like that until something terrible happen.... .. Nadia said she preferred reading stories online because "you could add your own character and twist it the way you want it to be".
He preferred reading to acting, with which he was almost always bored when not actually disgusted, loved poetry so much that he memorized and often quoted oodles of it, published two small books and dreamt of writing big ones, although indolence and fish-worthy drinking intervened.
The guitarist and songwriter went on to explain how he preferred reading "about things that have actually happened", citing Ernest R May's depiction of the White House during the Cuban missile crisis, The Kennedy Tapes, as the kind of book he can "get into".
