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Post by Winston Wolfe on Nov 13, 2022 4:51:42 GMT
I haven't read a book in years. Feel like an idiot.
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Post by Johnny-Come-Lately on Nov 13, 2022 4:54:48 GMT
Reading stuff on IMDB V2.1 is good enough.
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Post by James on Nov 13, 2022 5:06:40 GMT
Glad I'm not alone. I started reading The Shining in 2016/17 and slowly went through it until I stopped in like 2019 or so. Then I took a long break and finished the rest last year.
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Post by onethreetwo on Nov 13, 2022 5:28:35 GMT
I almost never read too. I'm pretty sure I've only read one front to back in the last 25 years.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Nov 13, 2022 5:49:29 GMT
I usually have a book on the go.
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Post by petrolino on Nov 13, 2022 5:59:56 GMT
I'm a slow reader but I like to read novels. Like everything I encounter, I give myself a kick if it's been a while since I started a new one. My major weakness is I've hardly read a single novel published in the last 20 years. I'm always gravitating towards older literature.
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Post by novastar6 on Nov 13, 2022 6:06:38 GMT
I'm a slow reader but I like to read novels. Like everything I encounter, I give myself a kick if it's been a while since I started a new one. My major weakness is I've hardly read a single novel published in the last 20 years. I'm always gravitating towards older literature.
A couple months ago I read Rebecca, and a problem I've always had with old literature is how they have to describe every little detail about the scenery, etc., and halfway through the book it hit me, as long ago as they were written, before TV, before a lot of movies, most people didn't travel extensively so a lot of them never saw a lot of the stuff being described, so it was to give the readers a full visual aid, I mean I don't think any novels written today will go to as much trouble to paint so clear a picture as the old writers did, stuff that used to take whole pages to describe would barely get a one sentence mention now.
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Post by novastar6 on Nov 13, 2022 6:16:02 GMT
I do intermittent not-reading, when I was younger I read every day, the only exceptions when I was too sick, and now there'll be times it's a week or more before I start again, and at first I'd feel guilty for the days I didn't, and now it takes that week or however long for me to actually realize it and feel bad, because I have thousands of books I haven't gotten around to reading yet, and I can't get rid of any of them until I do and know which ones to keep, which ones to get rid of. I made 4 stacks of books for Halloween to read, starting 3 months ago, and in that time I only read 8 books in the whole heap.
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Post by theauxphou on Nov 13, 2022 10:17:02 GMT
I haven’t read a book in over a year. I read an H.P. Lovecraft short stories book borrowed from the library in August last year.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 13, 2022 10:30:55 GMT
I have had periods where i don`t read.
I did once go 1 year without reading when i was in my 20s. And sometimes i do go a few weeks or months without reading.
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Post by ant-mac on Nov 13, 2022 11:08:20 GMT
I haven't read a book in years. Feel like an idiot. I couldn't imagine going a day without reading something... But each to their own.
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Post by Nora on Nov 16, 2022 6:01:41 GMT
i would love to read more books by all the writers whos books i want to reas are dead or stopped writing  |
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Post by petrolino on Nov 18, 2022 23:38:36 GMT
I'm a slow reader but I like to read novels. Like everything I encounter, I give myself a kick if it's been a while since I started a new one. My major weakness is I've hardly read a single novel published in the last 20 years. I'm always gravitating towards older literature.
A couple months ago I read Rebecca, and a problem I've always had with old literature is how they have to describe every little detail about the scenery, etc., and halfway through the book it hit me, as long ago as they were written, before TV, before a lot of movies, most people didn't travel extensively so a lot of them never saw a lot of the stuff being described, so it was to give the readers a full visual aid, I mean I don't think any novels written today will go to as much trouble to paint so clear a picture as the old writers did, stuff that used to take whole pages to describe would barely get a one sentence mention now.
I like Edgar Allan Poe who could be very descriptive. Someone once told me he wrote sentences half a page long.
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Post by ck100 on Nov 19, 2022 3:56:16 GMT
Only things like magazines, newspapers, stuff online, etc. I haven't read a big book or novel in many years.
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Post by novastar6 on Nov 19, 2022 6:53:33 GMT
Back when I still had a YT account there was a video by some guy about 'I read a book a week for a year' or something like that, and it was one of those videos I didn't actually watch but just went straight to the comments. One thing a lot of people brought up was they didn't feel they had the time to read. I mean think about it, we know it ourselves and it's documented we can and do spend hours at a time watching TV or playing video games, but the average reader you can measure their daily reading by mere MINUTES. Okay, that's very lopsided ends of the spectrum, and for those of us who read it feels bad, but it's not necessarily a bad thing. There is a reason why kids who are not proficient readers are advised to read for 15 minutes a day in their free time, it adds up, it can still equal a million words of print within a year's time. It might take longer, but it actually gets done as opposed to waiting for a time you actually have an hour to read and it never comes.
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Post by Schwarzwald Magnus on Nov 19, 2022 15:25:01 GMT
Back and forth. I have a book on the Civil War now.
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Post by mstreepsucks on Nov 19, 2022 16:26:32 GMT
I don't read books at the moment. But I am reading nintendo instruction manuals. And man, is it a lot of work.
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