Spare time? It's a concept few builders are familiar with. Whenever he can find some -- either on weekends, on an airplane or on vacation -- Mark Wilson, President of London Bay Homes of Naples, Fla., spends it reading.
Wilson says he mostly reads fiction and the bestsellers, including "everything Tom Clancy has ever written."
Business books, like those by computer gurus Michael Dell and Bill Gates, also make the list, as do autobiographies and historical accounts.
And what author from his youth does he fondly return to? Charles Dickens, says the British-born Wilson, who says he must have first read the stuff when he was only 13 years old.
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