Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, June 13, 1995 TAG: 9506130028
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: MIKE HUDSON
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
"It does make you a little weird," he muses.
But he doesn't mind being different. Lynch, 36, doesn't preach against TV. It's just that it's never really interested him - and he doesn't have time for it anyway.
He works the midnight shift as a machinist at Kollmorgen Industrial Drives in Radford and takes classes at New River Community College. And he reads incessantly - books by John McPhee, Mark Twain, Tolkien and many other authors.
He's a speed reader. He can finish a book in an evening if he wants to - and he often does.
Lynch worries that TV has helped destroy the art of conversation.
"People get a little uncomfortable where you want to sit in a chair facing them and just talk - rather than sitting looking away from each other watching the same thing. ... I've had people who have told me flat-out they would come see me more if I had a TV."
Mind you, he's not above taking a six-pack as a good-will offering to a friend's house if there's a playoff football game he wants to see. But most of the time, he can't see blowing a whole Sunday afternoon watching TV. He'd rather sit in the sun and read.
"A book is so darn portable," he says. "You can drop it in with your fishing tackle or whatever."
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