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curiousaboutkorea
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| Wishmaster wrote: |
| Zero. Did it enough in the past. |
Cheers! I'm glad someone else admitted to it. Now I don't feel so alone. |
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Dude Ranch
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| Sleepy in Seoul wrote: |
| one more than 17 times. |
which? |
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Koveras
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:38 am Post subject: |
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| Around 20. |
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MollyBloom
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I think I literally read over 200. Add to that the hundreds of journal articles and my brain feels like it's going to explode. I can't wait until my thesis is finished so I can read a book for leisure!  |
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Thiuda
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Location: Religion ist f�r Sklaven geschaffen, f�r Wesen ohne Geist.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| MollyBloom wrote: |
| I think I literally read over 200. Add to that the hundreds of journal articles and my brain feels like it's going to explode. I can't wait until my thesis is finished so I can read a book for leisure! |
Damn, that's about four books a week! I read about one book a week, for pleasure, and, on average, one journal article per week. I'm not a fast reader though, I often have to re-read certain bits until I've comprehended them... |
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Sergio Stefanuto
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| 15 (all nonfiction) |
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Panda
Joined: 25 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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| MollyBloom wrote: |
| I think I literally read over 200. Add to that the hundreds of journal articles and my brain feels like it's going to explode. I can't wait until my thesis is finished so I can read a book for leisure! |
I also probably read hundreds of journals for my thesis, but I had then litterally no time left for books, I am a super slow reader, slower than a snail...
Could you teach me how to read that fast? |
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Thiuda
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Location: Religion ist f�r Sklaven geschaffen, f�r Wesen ohne Geist.
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What was the best book you read in the past year?
I really enjoyed R. Dawkins' new book, The Greatest Show on Earth. He's a persuasive writer with a great sense of humour, who at the same time has a gift for writing clearly on a subject that is central to our understanding of humanity and the origin of life. |
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MollyBloom
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Panda wrote: |
| MollyBloom wrote: |
| I think I literally read over 200. Add to that the hundreds of journal articles and my brain feels like it's going to explode. I can't wait until my thesis is finished so I can read a book for leisure! |
I also probably read hundreds of journals for my thesis, but I had then litterally no time left for books, I am a super slow reader, slower than a snail...
Could you teach me how to read that fast? |
Speed reading takes a while to get down, but once you do, it's awesome. I'm by no means as great a speed reader as Oscar Wilde was. He would literally flip through an 800 page book, and you could ask him to recite line 55 on page 372 and he would do it with accuracy!
I also wouldn't really call myself a "speed reader," although I can read fast. I think they are two different things. And I don't retain all the information I read, either, only the stuff I really, really really need to know.
I have been trying to read a little bit of a non-thesis related material before I go to bed, so I'm reading Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential. |
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The Cosmic Hum
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Speed reading takes a while to get down, but once you do, it's awesome. I'm by no means as great a speed reader as Oscar Wilde was. He would literally flip through an 800 page book, and you could ask him to recite line 55 on page 372 and he would do it with accuracy!
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...I run with Woody Allen on speed reading.
After taking a speed reading course, he was tested on his acquisition of the material from War and Peace...when asked what it was about...his reply..."It was about some Russians."  |
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Sleepy in Seoul
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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| Dude Ranch wrote: |
| Sleepy in Seoul wrote: |
| one more than 17 times |
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Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill, a biography of Douglas Bader. I also have a couple of other books about Douglas Bader as well. |
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peppermint
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| I think the speed at which I read is very much dependent on the material. If it's straightforward, i can plow through in no time flat- I read all the four twilight novels in about three days, and half that was spent throwing the books at the wall for the stupid plot.Anything with any complexity will take a little more time to process though. |
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morrisonhotel
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Location: Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Between two and six books a week. I sometimes go through periods where I read a huge amount in one week, two weeks, etc. I definitely read over 100. Probably closer to 200 (maybe even in excess of that). I haven't read at all in Korea except finishing the one book I brought with me (Birdsong) and a couple of Korean language books. Are there any cheap places to pick up novels in Korea? Any second hand bookshops that anyone would recommend? |
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asams
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| Between two and six books a week. I sometimes go through periods where I read a huge amount in one week, two weeks, etc. I definitely read over 100. Probably closer to 200 (maybe even in excess of that). I haven't read at all in Korea except finishing the one book I brought with me (Birdsong) and a couple of Korean language books. Are there any cheap places to pick up novels in Korea? Any second hand bookshops that anyone would recommend? |
Yes. Check out www.whatthebook.com or www.seoulselection.com[/img] |
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morrisonhotel
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Thank you for that. Much appreciated. |
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