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View Poll Results: About how many books do you think you have read in the past year? | |||
0 | 18 | 13.74% | |
1 | 16 | 12.21% | |
2 | 9 | 6.87% | |
3 | 13 | 9.92% | |
4-5 | 21 | 16.03% | |
6-7 | 9 | 6.87% | |
8-10 | 11 | 8.40% | |
11-12 | 5 | 3.82% | |
13-15 | 3 | 2.29% | |
16-20 | 6 | 4.58% | |
21-30 | 6 | 4.58% | |
31-40 | 5 | 3.82% | |
41-50 | 2 | 1.53% | |
51+ | 7 | 5.34% | |
Voters: 131. You may not vote on this poll |
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Reading's just not for me. I don't see many benefits from it, but let's not start some whole book-benefit-bashing thing (hey it's a benefit! I learned alliteration from a book.) I recently had to read a book for school...but I just looked up a summary online. Funny thing is, I came first in the test we had on the text. Fancy that! (take THAT you benefit bastards!) Edit: Just fixing a typo, don't mind me. There's nowhere I can't reach.
Last edited by Muzza; Aug 23, 2007 at 03:51 AM.
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Maybe if you read more you'd learn how to properly form a contraction.
e: Typo, sure. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.
Last edited by YO PITTSBURGH MIKE HERE; Aug 23, 2007 at 07:04 AM.
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If it's not on the Internet or in a video game, I probably won't read it. I don't even like reading novels.
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I kinda abide by Kaleb's opinion on this, but I read around 10 books this last year. School-related. Books on quantum mechanics aren't exactly favorite reads of mine
Hoping to tear through a few whilst offshore... But for fun =U I was speaking idiomatically.
Hey, maybe you should try that thing Chie was talking about.
Last edited by Gechmir; Aug 23, 2007 at 03:48 AM.
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Can we just go ahead and autoban anyone who freely and shamelessly admits to being an unread illiterate retard
I promise you we won't be losing anything valuable What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
I have an habit of reading at at least one large book, (500 pages up) and several short ones (like novels) per month, but thats when my income is good, and I can afford those, there is a public library 2 blocks from my house, but I like to read on my own pace.
Asside from books, I also read tons of newpapers and magazines, as well as comic books, mangas and imported magazines, altought those don't count as reading a book, It does count's as reading something, since most of the stuff I read is informational (reader's Digest, Natgeo, etc) Yet, I still feel an ignorant ass because noone I know have the same habit, and pretty much all they talk is weird shit on TV. FELIPE NO |
I read a bit of Cicero recently, when looking up what lorem ipsum meant. He seems like a reasonable fellow. What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
Jam it back in, in the dark. so they may learn the glorious craft of acting from the dear leader |
Do what I do and reach back into the mists of time to your high school english summer reading lists.
There's nowhere I can't reach. |
I'm amazed so many people read books! I always thought it was eating up so much of my time, movies are much easier. I never read books. Scientific magazines are more my cup of tea.
I don't count my books about separation principles, warmth transfer and chemical process industry though. How ya doing, buddy?
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Last edited by katchum; Aug 23, 2007 at 09:58 AM.
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I like to read a lot, but I don't get to do it as much as I'd like to. Earlier in the year I was pretty good about reading 15-30 minutes a night, I'd read while on the bus, and spend a bit of my lunch time reading. It was nice to start doing it again, since I usually don't read at all during the school year since between textbooks, homeworks, and technical papers I hardly want to read another word.
Of course, then my girlfriend came out for the summer and doesn't let me read at right before I go to sleep because she wants to do something else. I miss my books. (Currently stuck in the middle of this one about Tesla that the professor I work for gave me. He's a pretty neat dude, but I swear the author has ADD and no knowledge of science whatsoever.) How ya doing, buddy? |
I was speaking idiomatically. |
I read maybe 5 books a year. I'm a slow reader by comparison anyways because I have a problem staying awake. Generally it's all non-fiction. Worst thing is that people are jealous of me because I read one book in four months that I just so happened to bring with me to school. What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
actually, in my younger years, I bought the first one, I think it was inferno. But it was too dull to get through and I think I quit within fifty pages. My attention span was fried by video games and shitty decathelons by scientologists. I'm just glad that it got fried before I read too much awful sci-fi and fantasy books. Terry Goodkind was bad enough. FELIPE NO |
In all honesty, though - if it hadn't been for Pang, I would have probably never loved a lot of the books I read today. If there's ever any doubt about Pang and his knowledge of literature, it should be shot down immediately. And yea, Divine Comedy. Ugh. She likes Voltaire's Candide, though. So she can't be entirely discredited. Most amazing jew boots |
I read all sorts of trashy low brow literature. If we're talking over the span of a year, I think I read through all of Robert Jordan's books sometime last year, again. Then I've read a ton of books off of Baen's website. I'd say 30+ there this year. And that's on the conservative side. Then I downloaded a bunch of other books, to grab the Dark is Rising series, and I think I've consumed another 10-12 books on top of that from the same batch.
I go on binges, so it's really hard to guess how many total, but I'd say it's easily over 51. I know a while back for about a week, I was reading multiple books a day. About the only "high" literature I've read that comes to mind is Fanny Hill, and Tom Jones, by John Cleland and Henry Fielding respectively. Jam it back in, in the dark.
Last edited by Radez; Aug 23, 2007 at 12:48 PM.
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Lurker, at least L. Ron Hubbard taught us how two lesbians into S&M go about raping a guy! There's nowhere I can't reach. |
haha Sass. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Similarion was like that too; actually, I don't think I would've made it through Lord of the Rings if I hadn't watched the first movie ahead of time.
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I had a hard enough time not falling asleep during The Two Towers. I kept hoping and praying for the second half of the book to appear in between the pages sometime soon. No one gives a shit about the elongated version of the battle of Helm's Deep. The first part of the Silmarillion reminded me a little too much of the Bible. I put it down after the first 20 pages or so. ;_; (I feel bad about it to this day, since my friend Sarah finished it. But she never finished high school and she's not the brightest. SAD) I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
Come on, Similarion is just a backstory. It's not even a real book like Lord of the Rings is. It's all just elf Ayurmuer travelling to these lands and doing battle with banished kings and his best elf friend Myroumer dying and with his last breath cursed the heavens, and that's why the area is a swamp to this very day. How ya doing, buddy? |
I haves confessions to makes.
The historian in me is precisely why I love the Silmarillion. What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
I dont read any novels a year, in fact, outside of the little reading I did in HS I havent sat down and read anything, though, if I ever plan on taking any (community) college in my lifetime, I guess starting a regiment of a few a month wouldn't hurt.
FELIPE NO |
I would've expected the results to be worse, one in four is not that bad. Quite a few people that I know have hardly read a book in their whole lifetime, let alone last year.
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Nothing says we need to beat what's wrong Nothing manmade remains made long That's a debt we can't back out of |
Aside from the Halo novels, I haven't read any non-technical/textbook type of books since 4th grade for book reports.
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I'm actually reading a lot more than what I ever did for quite a long time. I remember being 11 years old and I use to read as many hardy boy books I could get my hands on. I haven't really kept up with much reading until recently. I work at a job that requires sitting in a truck for the majority of my work day on occassion, so I try to take as much reading material as humanly possible to try to occupy my time.
I just finished reading Battle Royale the actual novel, not the manga, and I usually read a few books concerning the type of work I'm doing to help improve myself with all the environmental work that I do. There's nowhere I can't reach. |