How many books have you read?
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Topic: How many books have you read?
Posted By: The Quiet One
Subject: How many books have you read?
Date Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:14
| Want to know if prog fans are good, constant, readers. |
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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:17
| More than 100, definitely. Couldn't possibly say the exact number though. |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:18
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Hopefully over 100. Do you mean novels or just books in general? -------------   
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:19
^literature books, including music, bios, essays maybe? I don't know... Short stories books, count as one. (Martian Chronicles = 1)  School/Uni work-books don't count! |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:21
Easily 100+ - What I do when I'm not listening to prog basically  ------------- 
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:23
Am I the only one that reads and listens at the same time?  Stuff like The Final Cut, Division Bell, Blackouts, Snow Goose, Jazz Fusion, etc, work as perfect soundtracks to certain genres of literature IMO. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:24
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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. ------------- What? |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:25
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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The Quiet One wrote:Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:26
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? |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:29
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... |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:31
What a cool guy - We should hang sometime  -------------
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:38
Basically exactly what I was going to say. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:39
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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. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: August 08 2009 at 22:30
| 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. |
Posted By: GaryB
Date Posted: August 08 2009 at 22:52
| 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. |
Posted By: Concentration Moon
Date Posted: August 08 2009 at 22:58
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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. Who is everyone's favorite author? Mine's Kafka. ------------- 
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: August 08 2009 at 23:16
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Easily over 100. Probably somewhere in the 300-400 range. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 02:16
Probably somewhere around 200-300. Not all that much, but I still have time. 
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 03:22
i have read about 40-50 books i think (i have not counted the exact number but its close to 45++ books )it helps when Fantasy epics are 5 books or more in one series. I have read almoust 1000 (or more) Donald Duck comics, Marvel comic and DC comic stripes. |
Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 04:08
| Considering prog takes intelligence to appreciate, I would imagine prog fans would read more.... |
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 04:32
That's the oldest joke in the book. I think we've already established in the 4-5 years that I've been here that there's absolutely no correlation between intelligence and progressive rock. -------------
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Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 04:42
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It's hard to say but in the past 3 years,I've seemed to have a surge of reading and I would say 30-60.Also do you consider comics? And about intelligence and prog.............insert Phil Collin's career change joke here... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 04:48
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Since I became a veracious reader, when I was 14 - I can still remember the first four books: Vargas Llosa's Aunt Julia, Ancharov's Samsh*tovyĭ les, Bulgakov's Margarita and Garcia Marquez's Cien años de soledad), I have read over 200 books. Mostly novels, I'm somehow distant from poetry, and have read only a handful of philosophy, essays or critics. To this can be added a few more, but not that many, books and stories I read as a child. I was quite the Jules Verne fan... ------------- 
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Posted By: GaryB
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 06:19
| In answer to the favorite author question, mine would be Vonnegut. |
Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 09:23
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Books that I would grant any literary merit (pretty much excluding all books read before I was a teenager) I would say I'm in the 30-60 category. However, if we were including the Goosebumps and Animorphs series, I would easily have 100+.
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 10:05
| A few hundred, I suppose. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 10:58
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you could have included ">1000", I would have been in that category too -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 11:22
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In my house there's about 900 books (my mother is doing a pedant archive) and I have read around 40% of them. Plus a number of them that are not in our home library, so I guess a figure is around 500. However, I'm often re-reading my favourite ones, not once or twice: my top 50 favourite books had been all re-read ( re-readen? re-red? ) a dozen of times. There are only a few that I can describe as "bad". |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 11:51
| Not too many, but still probably 60-100 |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 11:54
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Does anyone ever get that Prog-head need to be a completist? I remember reading 2001 - A Space Odyssey, then the Sentinel, followed by Lost Worlds of 2001 and every Clarke book I could find, then later 2010, 2061 and 3001. Once I'd discovered Dune I then bought every novel Herbert wrote, the same for Robert Sheckley, Harlan Ellison, Philip K Dick, John T. Sladek, Iain M Banks, Michael Marshall Smith, Ken MacLeod, Peter F Hamilton, Storm Constantine and Neil Gaiman. I've recently discovered the comedic fantasy novels of Tom Holt ... that's another 28 books I'll end up adding to my collection. ------------- What? |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 11:57
Sorry my assumption of reading books was pretty bad..... I agree I should have put that category, and some like 200-300, and so on... |
Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 12:03
I can only say it happened to me once with Jack London. I picked up Martin Eden sometime last year then I decided to almost everything he published. ------------- Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 12:11
Reading books does not guarantee intelligence (Twilight) Listening to prog does not guarantee intelligence Anyone who holds a higher opinion of himself just because he reads more than another person is a stuck up brat. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 12:11
I'm not a completist. I'm a maniac of a completist. It happens not only with my prog-rock music, but also with literature. I've practically added a new shelve (sp?) to my (parents') home library, with new authors, but also with new books of authors I've picked and read from there. I have, right now, the full Gabriel Garcia Marquez bibliography. Dostoievsky's also full. Salinger full. Kafka as well, except a volume of posthumous short stories that, as a book, got out of print before I even discovered Kafka. The Faulkner collection's building up, but I already have all the big novels. The Joyce collection misses only Finnegan's Wake, but that book was never translated in Romanian, so I'm thinking of getting it in English (along with the Merriam-Webster dictionary ). I've purchased five anthological volumes of Borges' writings (from essays to poetry), so I guess there's not much left to complete there. Completing is in progress with writers such as Virginia Woolf, Mario Vargas Llosa, John Steinbeck, Haruki Murakami, Jose Saramago, Milan Kundera. I've got seven of Henry Miller's writings, including the Tropics and the S-P-N trilogy, but I don't know how hopeful towards completing it to be, I haven't seen a new item translated in two years. -- And only from here on comes the rest of what I've read, with a lot more to start reading. But since I'm a completist, half of the spirit of reading/discovering something new is cut by the spirit of having most of what I like very much. Which is probably bad, but I can't help it.  -------------
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 12:17
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From what I remember I don't think Merriam-Webster dictionary is going to help much with Finnegan's Wake.
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 12:19
Then it's hopeless. But I still want that book!! Joycejoycejoycejoycejoycejoycejoycejoycejoycejoycejoycejoycejoycejoycejoyce -------------
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 00:25
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Sheesh, I've got over 100 books read on my sony reader and I just got that six months ago. ------------- 
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 01:49
the only SF writer I would want to be a completist of is Stanislaw Lem, though by far not all of his works were SF, and he himself hated to be called an SF-writer. some of his works have not been translated into German yet though (and even fewer into English), though the list of German translations is almost complete, and we have all of his books. I am not much of an SF-fan, but Lem transcends the genre. the only other SF_writer I really like besides Lem is Phlip K. Dick, especially his latter works. I am not counting such classics as Aldous Huxley, George Orwell or H. G. Wells because they wrote lots of books outside the genre too. there are several authors we have the complete works of, mostly by being complete editions; it is the easiest way. examples are Goethe, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe or E.T.A. Hoffmann (a writer of fantasy and horror stories and novels of the romantic era. he was also a caricaturist and composer; a true multi-talent. I highly recommend his novel "Die Elixiere des Teufels", "The Elixirs of the Devil". many horror stories or novels draw on the concept of the doppelganger, "The Elixir of the Devils" is the only novel I know of where a person has TWO doppelgangers). of others we slowly acquired book after book. Friede is a great fan of the Nero Wolfe whodunnits of Rex Stout; she already had all Nero Wolfe books when we met (somewhat over 70), though she does not have any other books by Rex Stout. help, we need a bigger house! we are running out of space for all the books we own ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: russellk
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 02:12
| I've averaged three novels a week since I was a teenager. So I guess I've read a few thousand novels - I have over a thousand in my library. I read good books more than once, though. |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 15:59
He's certainly one of my favourites. I need to read more of his work though. Everything I've read by him has been great. -------------
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 16:03
I'm trying to do that with Jeffrey Ford and Kurt Vonnegut at the moment. With Ford, I have just the two to get (his debut Vanitas isn't easy to find). Vonnegut I have a little longer to go. But yes, I also end up doing this. I want to get all the SF Masterworks series eventually. Seeing them all lined-up together will look great. It's a shame I only have one so far though (and that happens to be The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut). Edit: Oh and yes, like Rico, I have the Penguin editions of Jorge Luis Borges. I think there's still some letters of his to get though. -------------
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Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 16:09
Not to mention no relation between intelligence and how many Book's you read.
That would suggest people in the Bronce Age , had less intelligence than any teen today, wich is not the case. Most likely its the opposite. ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 16:10
Plus you've written some too. -------------
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 16:22
| A few hundred, I reckon. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 16:25
All of them that I have. Then I got stuck on a Noam Chomsky one I couldn't get through. Now I stick to comic compilations. 
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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 13:11
True enough. Actually, the most intelligent man I ever met didn't read at all. According to his own words, he had read less than 10 books in his lifetime - voluntarily, that is. And yet, there was absolutely no way to beat him in an argument - even when discussing books! -------------
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Posted By: Matthew T
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 17:38
Lost count long ago. I have been known to borrow books get home and when I have started realised I have read it before. Any Genre like music for me except the old Mills and Boon.The girls can have them------------- Matt |
Posted By: 1967/ 1976
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 04:52
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>100 are books
But:
>1000 are Disney's comics!!!
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 10:54
Around 70 probably, or more. But around 100 if we include graphic novels!  ------------- 
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 15:46
------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 18:01
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How can anyone who is over the age of 18 not have read 100 books? It's really not very much, even if you're like me and unable to sustain the 2 books a week anymore. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: russellk
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 18:55
| ^ Henry, it is estimated that only 3% of adults read novels regularly. More than 80% of adults have not read a novel in the last decade. Makes it hard to tell them stories. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 18:57
 Well, I certainly felt as a "3%" in high-school.  -------------
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 20:06
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I've lost count.
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 22:10
Change that percentage to 0.003%, and you have my School in a nutshell... -------------
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 22:28
It's called having a life...
 No... really.... that we all like prog here doesn't mean we all read like crazy... this is progarchives after all, not literaturearchives.... -------------
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 22:29
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Yeah, even at the college level, I find a lot of people prefer to find a synopsis of books for classes and such online rather than reading. I took a comparative literature course on science fiction a few semesters ago, I'd estimate that less than 10% of us actually read the books. I'll admit, some of them I didn't make it through, but only because I found them incredibly distasteful *cough* J.G. Ballard's Crash and Atrocity Exhibition *Cough*, but I tried each. As far as the favorite author question goes, I'd have to say either Douglas Adams or Frank Herbert or Heinlein or H.G. Wells or Vonnegut or Philip Dick. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 03:25
You could give yourself an easy ride and read it in Dutch or Japanese! There are first-rate translations available.
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Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 03:39
Funny that you mention Hoffmann. I just re-read "The Sandman", which is by far the scariest story I know. (OK, perhaps together with Poe's "Ligeia"...) For those of you who are not aware of it, there are several excellent English translations! Last year, I greatly enjoyed Hoffmann's novel KATER MUERR (which has been translated as TOMCAT MUERR or somesuch, by Anthea Bell, who also translates the Asterix series into English). Magnificent stuff - no wonder it inspired Schumann so much. I could not possibly tell you how many books I've read. When I was a child I read at least five a week. Now I'm 49, and the habit has never gone away. My favourite novelists are Rabelais, Proust, Georges Perec, Cervantes, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Geerten Meijsing, Murasaki Shikibu, Nagai Kafu and Junichiro Tanizaki. Favourite poets: Su Dongpo, Basho, Buson, W.H. Auden and Ted Hughes -- in addition to a fair number of classics by Dutch, English and German poets... |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 04:14
"Kater Murr" (not "Muerr") is one of the most interestingly structured novels ever, since the writings of that tomcat have been done on the backsides of a diary, which he tore out at random. so there are actually two stories going on (with overlappings), one of which is strangely fragmented though. a most interesting concept ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 04:15
Please define: "intelligence". |
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 04:19
Sorry 'bout the misspelling, miss. I guess it comes from seeing this strange title, "Brüno", everywhere. N.B. The name Bruno is actually pronounced "Brüno" (with a proper u as in French "tu") not in German (as far as I know) but in Dutch! |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 04:56
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 07:54
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Impossible to say. Maybe 1000, maybe more. In fact, I think I have translated more than 100 books.
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Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: August 19 2009 at 22:35
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Hundreds - more probably well over a thousand on almost any topic imaginable! ------------- 
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: August 19 2009 at 23:09
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In school I used to read a book per week and in university much more than that (Was obsessed with politics), now I try to keep a book each 15 days at least Iván
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Posted By: Badabing666
Date Posted: August 25 2009 at 16:42
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I aim to read a book every 2 weeks. Only problem is that the regular arrival of music magazines generally slows my book reading down. ------------- 
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Posted By: omri
Date Posted: August 26 2009 at 13:59
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There should have been a choice for more than 1000.
I read about 150-200 books every year (and as a child I read much more).
I never counted but I am pretty sure I passed the number of 10,000. ------------- omri |
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: August 26 2009 at 14:51
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^ You read three books a week? That's pretty impressive.
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 26 2009 at 15:05
quite normal.. I usually read a book a day. it depends on size and difficulty though; there are books I need 2 or 3 days for. but a 300 page novel usually is only fodder for one day. when you have learned to read a page in half a minute or even less it is quite easy ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: September 02 2009 at 20:33
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I read more than 100 books, for sure. I'm now reading Mikhaïl Boulgakov's Le Maître et Marguerite, I don't know what it's called in English though. It's excellent. ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 04 2009 at 22:26
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The thing that amused me about this poll was who counts how many books they have read?
I am and always have been an avid reader,and always used to read above my "spposed" level.When I was a kid and should have been reading children's books I was taking books from the adult section of my local public library without checking them out,would read them,sneak them back in and return them to the shelfs.
I probably read over 100 before I was 8,so well over 100 books. -------------  |
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: September 04 2009 at 23:38
I try not to do that with books - or with music, as a matter of fact. I find that it takes the magic out of it ... making literature/art/music a routine thing. ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: September 04 2009 at 23:47
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Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: September 04 2009 at 23:52
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I can read a 300 page book on one day ... I've done it many times, even last week. But I could not do that every day ... it wouldn't give me any time to reflect on what I've read.
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: September 04 2009 at 23:54
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Well I think we all could if it we had enough free time, but my point is that some people can comprehend things a lot faster and so it's not quite the same as cramming in 8 hours of reading every day because they can it all in 1. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: September 05 2009 at 06:58
| Far too many to count... Like Jody, I started reading at an early age (I was self-taught, and went to elementary school already knowing how to read), and for most of my life I was a voracious reader. Unfortunately, I must admit that my reading rate has slowed down considerably in the past couple of years or so, probably due to an accumulation of stress. An interesting fact about me, anyway, is that nowadays I'd rather read nonfiction than fiction. |
Posted By: omri
Date Posted: September 06 2009 at 12:53
It seems I started a small discussion here (never happens when I intend to) and since it's about one of the things I prefer to do most I'll add few words.
I have never been taught fast reding but I read about 50 pages an hour (double side) when I read literature. For me the story is most important (few years ago I bought a book of Munch's paintings and the seller asked me why I chose Munch. My answer was that his paintings tells stories).
For me usualy the day is not completed without some reading and if it means I sleep less then it's fine with me. I read mainly fiction cause the story is much better when not limited by facts. However, when it's a good book I keep thinkink about it long after I finished it so I don't think I read more than I can digest.
However Jimbo, don't feel too frastrated cause on the other hand I did not have sex for quite a while
 Maybe that explains why Ghost Rider reads less nowadays
 Oh I called you Raff by mistake on another thread today but again, for me you will allways be Ghost Rider ! ------------- omri |
Posted By: omri
Date Posted: September 06 2009 at 12:55
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And another last comment for today :
I find it pretty obvious that most of us read far more than most people. This answers the question raised in another thread are we a sub-culture ? My answer is deffinitely YES .
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: September 06 2009 at 13:06
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I have no idea. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: September 07 2009 at 03:07
Sometimes I find that the literature itself demands you to slow down. Reading for instance Kafka, Proust or Joyce (where the story is less important than the way it is told) takes a lot more time than reading Wodehouse or Rowling. ------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: omri
Date Posted: September 07 2009 at 12:01
Absolutely. Kafka needs a slower reading to apreciate it. The same with Falkner, Dostoyevsky (sure misspeled his name sorry), Henry James or even Mario Vargas Yose. But I don't read only classics and there are others who are much more easy reading. ------------- omri |
Posted By: Windhawk
Date Posted: September 07 2009 at 14:59
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More than 100 was a pretty low alternative as far as highest number is concerned. Before I had kids I used to go through 3-500 books pr. year ;-) ------------- Websites I work with: http://www.progressor.net http://www.houseofprog.com My profile on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/haukevind/ |
Posted By: Abyssal Sheep
Date Posted: September 07 2009 at 15:19
| Between 30 and 60 I think, closer to sixty. Favourite author is Haruki Murakami. I'm only 17 and school keeps me reading so much that I never really feel like picking up a book for myself... except in vacations (which is when I easily read three books a week or so). |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: September 07 2009 at 15:32
Yeah I know, and realised and admitted this in page 2 or even 1... This thread became pointless after the 2 first pages... |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 08 2009 at 00:10
Funny,when I am stressed out I read even more.That's how I have always dealt with stress,just buried my nose in a book. ------------- |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: September 08 2009 at 06:31
It used to be like that for me in the past - now I find I don't have a lot of energy for new material, so I end up re-reading what I already have. Bear also in mind that I have left most of my books behind, and that I don't want to end up having to buy a larger house to host all those books ! Then again, there is a wonderful public library within walking distance... |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 08 2009 at 17:39
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I read in spurts... when Raff introduced me to the Wheel of Time.. I literally had a book of that series in my hand in every spare moment.. at work and at home till I finished it. I read 'The Road' Friday in a single day..litterally a day long sitting broken only by the the drive home after work . I love the feeling of having a good book that you just can't put down.. it is very relaxing and with the stressful job and nutcases I work with, it is needed at times hahaha.
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: September 08 2009 at 19:25
I need to start reading again. Every time I go to the library they never have any books I'm interested in. I found a website called http://www.online-literature.com/ - The Literature Network where there is a large amount of literature available for free online. If I remember correctly the website said that it has works from over 250 authors, worth checking out, IMO. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 08 2009 at 19:31
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I'm being put on bifocals. More of a non-fiction type here. Probably read more political stuff than anything, but I got stuck on a Noam Chomsky book and a Kevin Phillips one. Made it through a few good cartoon books in the meantime. Currently working on book called Dreams And Their Meanings.
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: September 09 2009 at 04:02
Sounds like a very stressful job … ------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: September 09 2009 at 12:14
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Honestly, if I had to estimate, I'd say over 150. Like Micky, I read in spurts. If I don't find anything interesting at the library or I'm still waiting for a book from one of my favorite authors to come out, I may just re-read a book. ------------- 
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Posted By: motrhead
Date Posted: May 16 2010 at 13:12
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I'm another one that could use an "over 10,000" option, and I am also one of those 1000+wpm people, but that completely depends on the book. Some of the classics take two or three times as long to read as a normal book, just to be sure that you comprehend everything. While I was a child and a young teen I would read at least two or three books a day, and would often stay up half of the night to finish five or six (this was the 70's and most of the time my mother refused to own a tv). After I got married the reading became much more sporadic, and nowadays I spend way too much time on the computer browsing forums like this . I am probably down to reading one or two books a week now, but at the same time I now writing my third (Dystopian) novel. Most of what I have read lately has been research for my own writing, but I have enjoyed re-reading many of "the classics". A few of them are surprisingly bad...
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: May 16 2010 at 13:13
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ONE FISH TWO FISH RED FISH... ...BLUE FISH |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 16 2010 at 13:53
| I fear the man of 1-5 books. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: May 16 2010 at 14:18
I'm ashamed I'm the creator of this poll... it was stupidly thought...
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: May 16 2010 at 15:30
| I really can't calculate it or make a list of every book, but I'm sure I've read over 100 books. |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: May 21 2010 at 13:02
| Easily over 100! I've been reading about 10 books a year, sometimes more, for 35 years or so. |
Posted By: EatThatPhonebook
Date Posted: May 23 2010 at 09:13
| I have no idea. I always really liked reading, so probably <100. Maybe less, since i'm 16. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: May 23 2010 at 10:07
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It depends... does Green Eggs and Ham count as a book? Seriously, I must've read at least 100 over the course of my life so far... ------------- 
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