be transported, forget, get away, people who answer they read a writer for sentence by sentence, lamanna sentence level which is the opposite of being transported because you are focusing so much on the writing itself, being taken away by the writing. >> for fiction i agree with both of those answers, a way to receive a concentrated intelligence, you know how hard it is to write sentences, how much thought goes into a sentence when a thought was spoken aloud. you get lots of smart into your head. nonfiction is not escapism so i don't read it for that huge change i think now that i read as terry does to get outside of myself, my own relatively narrow world of my own problems but thinking back to why i read as a kid, desperately wanted to learn how to be. i wanted to piece together and identity and it was a struggle. i read arthur's like hemingway and ian fleming and jack kerouac and jp dunlevy because i was trying to forge an identity for myself and it came down to what should i drink? >> going to be james bond? >> i passed foreign service, could be a spy, but i was trying to put together