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How many books do you read a year? (pg. 4)
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| wesley1842 |
These times I read about 6 to 7 books a year......and i like all types of novels.....
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| couch-potato |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
I voted 10-20. I might beat 20 with many shorter ones in a good year, but usually there's some 800+ pages monster among them that keeps me busy for a while. I read fiction exclusively, mainly because I know everything better than the philosophers, pop-scientists, political analysts or self-help gurus that write non-fiction. |
I was going to comment on how fiction unfairly gets a bad rep, but this works too :D |
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| Fledz |
| I love reading and yet I haven't read a book I've wanted to since the beginning of 2009, possibly end of 2008. Work and current lifestyle just make it tough to sit down regularly to read a good book. It makes me sad :( |
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| Moongoose |
| Thats why you keep the books on your mobile...surely youre not on the move all day long, i bet that every few hours you get a couple of minutes off, thats the right time to pull out your phone and read for a few minutes before you have to go back to your duties :) |
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| Cpt.Cocaine |
I went with 3-5, but really it's hard to say because I don't read for very long periods of time and then I binge-read.
(and then I make myself vomit) |
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| Unique2701 |
| I guess around 7 books. I used to read a bit more but I spend more of my spare time on music nowadays. I only read novels. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
Average? Probably 2. I kind of "binge-read" as well, but rarely more than like 5 books in succession.
I would like to read more though, it's definitely one of the things I would like to improve on. I don't mean to come off as pretentious either, but keeping attention to a single book for a few days is a challenge to me as well - rarely is it because I think the book is bad, I just seem to start far more than I actually finish. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
I would like to read more though, it's definitely one of the things I would like to improve on. I don't mean to come off as pretentious either, but keeping attention to a single book for a few days is a challenge to me as well - rarely is it because I think the book is bad, I just seem to start far more than I actually finish. |
I usually read 3 or 4 books at the same time exactly for that reason. I'm really hyperactive and I find it hard to read the same book for more than a couple of hours (sometimes not even that). For example, I recently started to read "Pragmatism: A Reader" and, though I've read just a few chapters so far, I also started (and finished) two short books ("Anarcy: A Very Short Introduction" and "Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes"), and I'm still on the first chapters of yet another one "Cognitive Linguistics".
It's chaotic, really :p |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
Yeahhhhh, there's probably like 7 books in my car that I've read the first quarters of, just hanging out, getting sunbaked as I spend time on my computer. :o
Some day... |
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| w_ashley |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
COReans around here seem to be a very intellectual bunch. Threads about books pop up every couple of months and some of the titles discussed are actually very interesting. Though they're few and far between even in the most inane of all threads, there's a quote by Schiller among lulz and wtfs. But, how many books does the average TA read?
What sort of book do you like to read? |
I'm on track for more than 20 this year easily. I'm aiming to read three or four more before the end of the month.
I've started liking eaudio books though.. it is far easier to listen to an eaudio book, but this is not much unlike watching a movie.
I tend to only read historic non fiction though and some other technical non fiction. |
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| daydreamer |
about 3 - 5 a month.
currently going through all the latin american classics. |
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| Tangil |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
over 20, dunno maybe 30ish?
by and large i read non fiction. subject matter including but not limited to: music, aesthetics, culture, gastronomy, environmentalism, philosophy, psychology, mysticism, physics, cosmology, history, travel.
i do enjoy some fiction too, mostly classic literature |
How do you find time to read all these books and listen to so much music? Do you listen to music while you read? |
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