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asams
Joined: 17 Nov 2008
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 Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:48 am Post subject: How many books did you read last year? |
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| Just wondering how many books you guys read in 2009. I finally had time to read for pleasure and I managed to finish 29 books. How did the rest of you bookworms do? |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:04 am Post subject: |
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| Somewhere between 50 and 100. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:33 am Post subject: |
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| the_beaver wrote: |
| Somewhere between 50 and 100. |
jesus!!!
how do you find the time??? |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:12 am Post subject: |
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Probably like 15 or so books on the Civil War, some not cover to cover, but like 80% of each.
3 Jane Austens (Persuasion- yum!), Twelfth Night, The Killer Angels, Newt Gingrich's Gettysburg Trilogy. The Guns of the South. A good chunk of Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry V.
I sometimes miss the first two years of High School where I had no friends and could read, read, and read. |
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sharkey
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:16 am Post subject: |
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| I finished five books but I stopped reading with about 6 months to go in the year. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:23 am Post subject: |
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
| the_beaver wrote: |
| Somewhere between 50 and 100. |
jesus!!!
how do you find the time??? |
I read before I sleep, sitting on the subway, waiting for people, waiting to get served in a restaurant, sipping coffee after eating...
Reading is almost a compulsion -- I can't leave my house without one or two books. On top of that I'm also a fast reader. |
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GreenlightmeansGO
Joined: 11 Dec 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:23 am Post subject: |
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mulligc3
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:23 am Post subject: |
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about 40..
Missing the library whilst here. |
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geldedgoat
Joined: 05 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:36 am Post subject: |
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15 plus about another 15 or so short stories in the past 7-8 months... all based in the 40k universe.  Warhammer's one of my guilty pleasures. |
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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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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:56 am Post subject: |
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| Probably more than 100. I have at least 800 books at home and most of them I have read at least three times and one more than 17 times. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:57 am Post subject: |
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| I've read between 70 and 100 myself. I'm a fast reader, and lots of what I read this year would be classed as page turners, with little depth, just to give my head a break from stuff like Moby Dick and the Scarlet Letter- both of which are brilliant, but a little draining. |
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asams
Joined: 17 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| I'm a super fast reader also. I only really read when I'm at the restaurant or on the subway/bus. Guess if I actually read while I was at home I would have better numbers, but oh well. I'm just happy that I've found the time to read whatever I want again. BTW, I know most people like Kyobo and WhattheBook here, but I think Youngpoong near Jonggak is the best bookstore in Korea. They also have an awesome gift shop deal on the bottom floor. |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:11 am Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| I've read between 70 and 100 myself. I'm a fast reader, and lots of what I read this year would be classed as page turners, with little depth, just to give my head a break from stuff like Moby Dick and the Scarlet Letter- both of which are brilliant, but a little draining. |
I would say the same, my collection has just gotten to around 400 books.
However I tend to read science and biology books to slow me down; (re queen, darkwins (early stuff), finally got around to reading origin of the species); when I go on a page turning bender. |
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geldedgoat
Joined: 05 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:17 am Post subject: |
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| asams wrote: |
| BTW, I know most people like Kyobo and WhattheBook here, but I think Youngpoong near Jonggak is the best bookstore in Korea. They also have an awesome gift shop deal on the bottom floor. |
Not to mention there's awesome Mexican and Indian within a minute's walking distance from there! |
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Wishmaster
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| Zero. Did it enough in the past. |
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