Rich Franklin Doesn’t Bother With Novels

  • Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 at 6:02 pm by Bear Frazer

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Last month, Your BFF chopped it up with Rich Franklin and asked him about the most random stuff on the planet. While some of it will be appearing on the pages of FIGHT! Magazine in the not-so-distant future, here is an excerpt where the former UFC Middleweight Champion talks about the types of books he loves and loathes, as well as some titles you might wanna check out at Barnes & Noble.

Bear Frazer: Alright Rich. I know you read a lot. So with that said, what is the last book you started reading and never finished?

Rich Franklin: Let me think. The last book I started reading and never finished. I’m thinking back. I read often and I don’t know, man. Typically, I finish books. Probably … probably … you know what? I don’t even know. I’m trying to think of books that I’ve read that … I just don’t know. Once I start a book, it’s as if I have to finish. I have to finish a book. The last book I read was a book titled I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, and I read that cover-to-cover. Probably the book I read prior to that was Marine Sniper [by] Charles Henderson, the famous Marine Sniper. I read both his first book and his second book. Silent Warrior was the second book and Marine Sniper was the first one, and I read Silent Warrior and that was probably the book I read before that. But I do a lot of reading.

Bear Frazer: Fair enough. Since you read all your books, what book would be the one where you’d march back to Barnes & Noble and demand your money back?

Rich Franklin: Ooooooh, you are stumping me here! I’m trying to really think because I’m really selective. My time is so limited that unless I have half a dozen people telling me a certain book was really good, I won’t even bother picking it up and … I don’t read novels either. You would catch me reading a book on Roman history before you catch me reading some sort of fictional novel. I don’t even bother with novels. And so I guess with that being said, because that’s the tastes that I have, you’re not ever really disappointed in reading a book about, say, Roman history for example because it’s almost written like a textbook sort of speak. It’s not as if you put it down and [are] like, “Oh, that was a horrible book.” I’ll tell you one book that I did read that was a good book and I recommend it for someone, but it was a difficult read and I read this shortly after my dad passed away. It was 90 Minutes In Heaven and he (the author, Don Piper) was hit by a car and he died. He was actually pronounced dead for 90 minutes, and then he ended up recovering and living, and he basically tells about his out-of-body experience, which is part of the reason why I was reading the book. But the book went so deeply into the recovery and his accident and what he had gone through – which was a terrible thing by the way – that as I was reading the book, it was horrible having to read what this guy went through. I was like, “I don’t want to read this stuff, man. This is just … bad.”

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