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Poll Question: How many books have you read?
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2 [2.04%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [1.02%]
1 [1.02%]
7 [7.14%]
6 [6.12%]
81 [82.65%]
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Probably somewhere around 200-300. Not all that much, but I still have time. Smile
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Easily over 100. Probably somewhere in the 300-400 range. 
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I definitely read over 100 books before age 10 (though not very intellectual books). I've always been a big reader.


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Over 100 for me but not by much. I didn't care much for reading in school probably because I had to do it. In the Army, a friend would give me paperbacks after he finished them. Things like Catch 22, Sometimes A Great Notion, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and The Electric Koolaid Acid Test. He also gave me my first of many books by Kurt Vonnegut.
In more recent years I've read my share of military and political (Conservative of course) books and a conspiracy theory book that I really enjoyed.
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I really couldn't give a solid answer on this one.  Not including books I read for school, it would still have to be at minimum 50 as a conservative estimate.  I really have no idea.

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Full books, completely, not skimming, no audiobooks...

less than 20 real novels by myself...add another ten for school and college.

I don't read much, even less an entire book, and even even less something other than sci-fi/fantasy.
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Originally posted by LinusW LinusW wrote:

More than 100, definitely. Couldn't possibly say the exact number though.


Basically exactly what I was going to say.
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Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:


Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Am I the only one that reads and listens at the same time? ConfusedStuff like The Final Cut, Division Bell, Blackouts, Snow Goose, Jazz Fusion, etc, work as perfect soundtracks to certain genres of literature IMO.

I use to read, listen to music and watch TV all at the same time. I don't do that anymore, but will often play some instrumental music while reading.
LOL Cool, then you have the gift of being multi-functional, not many have that gift.I heard that some guy wrote music with his piano, read a book, watched TV, listened to music, listened to the radio for another type of music, and read the newspaper all at the same time. However, he only did that once, the next day his brain collapsed, and when they checked his head, there was a small portatile TV in it, the radio, the music player(or MP3 with headphones), the piano, the book, and the newspaper...





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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Am I the only one that reads and listens at the same time? Confused

Stuff like The Final Cut, Division Bell, Blackouts, Snow Goose, Jazz Fusion, etc, work as perfect soundtracks to certain genres of literature IMO.
I use to read, listen to music and watch TV all at the same time. I don't do that anymore, but will often play some instrumental music while reading.


LOL Cool, then you have the gift of being multi-functional, not many have that gift.

I heard that some guy wrote music with his piano, read a book, watched TV, listened to music, listened to the radio for another type of music, and read the newspaper all at the same time. However, he only did that once, the next day his brain collapsed, and when they checked his head, there was a small portatile TV in it, the radio, the music player(or MP3 with headphones), the piano, the book, and the newspaper...
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Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Am I the only one that reads and listens at the same time? Confused

Stuff like The Final Cut, Division Bell, Blackouts, Snow Goose, Jazz Fusion, etc, work as perfect soundtracks to certain genres of literature IMO.
I use to read, listen to music and watch TV all at the same time. I don't do that anymore, but will often play some instrumental music while reading.
What?
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Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Am I the only one that reads and listens at the same time? ConfusedStuff like The Final Cut, Division Bell, Blackouts, Snow Goose, Jazz Fusion, etc, work as perfect soundtracks to certain genres of literature IMO.


I love to read and listen - I remember distinctly listening to 'To Be Over' by YES whilst reading Terry' Brook's "Armageddon's Children"...
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About 20 years ago my bookcases were full and I had no more room for new books so I took most of them down to the secondhand bookstore, just keeping back the Dune trillogy, all the John Sladek novels and Ian Hunter's Diary Of A Rock and Roll Star. The bookstore took over 200 books off my hands that day.
 
My bookcases are now full again.
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Am I the only one that reads and listens at the same time? Confused

Stuff like The Final Cut, Division Bell, Blackouts, Snow Goose, Jazz Fusion, etc, work as perfect soundtracks to certain genres of literature IMO.


Edited by The Quiet One - August 08 2009 at 20:23
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Easily 100+ - What I do when I'm not listening to prog basically
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^literature books, including music, bios, essays maybe? I don't know... Short stories books, count as one. (Martian Chronicles = 1) Wink

School/Uni work-books don't count! Wink


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Hopefully over 100.

Do you mean novels or just books in general?
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More than 100, definitely. Couldn't possibly say the exact number though.
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Want to know if prog fans are good, constant, readers.
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