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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: akira_akuma]
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akira_akuma said:
Yakul said:
Thousands, easily. (Hundreds, if you don't include the books read for my degree.)  Cute that you keep track.  Good work.  Keep reading!!!


oh i'm just getting started, personally. :yesnod:


I think it's awesome what you are doing!


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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: Yakul]
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I averaged 2-3 a week throughout elementary and highschool, reading really dropped off once I started living in the real world. If I had to guess It'd be right around 1500-1750 mark. Make for one hell of a personal library thats for sure.

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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: Yakul]
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Yakul said:
jboredone said:
Distorted Vision said:
Reading thousands isn't unbelievable. My mom reads a book a day sometimes. But just for calculations, I'll say 3 a week atleast. She said she has read like this since she was 15, and read a lot before that. I'll even raise it to 20yo when she started. She is 45. 25*52*3= 3,900.


she said over 1000 just for her degree....:thumbdown:


Golly, what a controversy I've caused.  Well, it doesn't really change reality whether or not people believe me.  Certainly, I'll admit that I worded my response poorly.  I probably shouldn't have said "thousands."  Probably just over a thousand, hundreds of which would be for my degree.


sorry, guess i just dislike reading "books" so much that i can't believe someone would waste that much of their life reading "books"..... :hug:


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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: jboredone]
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to me it's like the people that can recite lines from movies word for word...like are you serious.....it's just a movie....:shrug:


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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: jboredone]
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Oh yeah, what do you do for fun? Wander around outside in open mouthed amazement? Boring.

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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
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Bodhi of Ankou said:
Oh yeah, what do you do for fun? Wander around outside in open mouthed amazement? Boring.


well lately my only hobby is trolling the shroomery and raising a family....:shrug:


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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: Yakul]
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Yakul said:
akira_akuma said:
Yakul said:
Thousands, easily. (Hundreds, if you don't include the books read for my degree.)  Cute that you keep track.  Good work.  Keep reading!!!


oh i'm just getting started, personally. :yesnod:


I think it's awesome what you are doing!


thank you! :awesome:

i have got War and Peace, Don Quixote, Gravity's Rainbow, Life and Opinion's of Tristram Shandy Gentleman, David Copperfield, Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, and Gulliver's Travels on my shelf waiting to be read next.

still getting a new Illiad and Odyssey (i've got prose editions), American Psycho, The Exorcist, Snowcrash, 1984, Point Counter Point, Naked Lunch, Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West, Watchmen, Illuminatus Trilogy, The Corrections, White Noise, House of Leaves, The Moviegoer, Disgrace, Atonement... ect ect... literally hundreds of books, i still wanna get too. EE Cummings collection, i want... 3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri, i want... poetry is cool too. it's more... pure, somehow.

yeah, the bug. not even for school either. i must be :insano:

shit i wanna read Menon Ramesh's translation of Ramayana and Mahabharata, too, at this rate, i'll get to this in a year, and read it by 2030, maybe finish it by 2031.

:facepalm: goddamn it.

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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: jboredone]
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jboredone said:
to me it's like the people that can recite lines from movies word for word...like are you serious.....it's just a movie....:shrug:


it's just life. it's just a family, everyone's got one. it's just you. it's just for no reason.

sounds like someone is jealous of having more interests then you. which is a stupid thing to be jealous of.

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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: akira_akuma]
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a lot of my family can recite friday, scarface, a how high lol


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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: Alex Roivas]
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i like someone to be able to recite all the lines from Last Year At Marienbad. :lol: that would blow my mind.

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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: akira_akuma]
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I curse my book collection when I move, I have moved a lot over last 10 years. I have no idea how many I read. Right now I am reading Gravity's Rainbow and Illuminatus Trilogy (which would make a great movie). Favorite author is Philip K Dick.

Edited by my3rdeye (01/03/15 10:51 PM)

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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: my3rdeye]
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:jacked: have any of you book lovers ever wrote your own book or thought about it?....:justdontknow:


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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: jboredone]
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um, obviously, i'm pretty sure. i even want to since i started reading... have you ever read anything good extensively? ever?

anything that's good or cool, i wish i could do. :shrug:

my3rdeye said:
I have no idea how many I read. Right now I am reading Gravity's Rainbow


and how is it so far?

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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: jboredone]
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jboredone said:
i honestly don't think i have ever read a book from beginning to end...not even in school....:shrug:



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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: jboredone]
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so you have no fucking clue what you're talking about then. got it. don't worry, i used to be the EXACT same way. so i'm not trying to insult you dude.

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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: jboredone] * 1
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D..do you even know how to read, my son?

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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: Yakul]
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Yakul said:
jboredone said:
Yakul said:
Thousands, easily. (Hundreds, if you don't include the books read for my degree.)  Cute that you keep track.  Good work.  Keep reading!!!


so you have read over 1000 books from beginning to end just for your degree?...thats just sounds crazy to me....:justdontknow:


I've likely read over a thousand books from beginning to end outside of my degree, to be honest, but I'm trying to be conservative.  I love to read.  I worked in a bookstore.  I actually did the readings they assigned in my class and read the texts from front to back.  Sounds labor intensive but remember, you don't know how old I am and my degree took 10-years.


Yeah I don't see why this is so unbelievable to people.

I've read at least 10 novels each by herman hesse, kurt vonnegut, almost all shakespeare's plays, the harry potter series, game of thrones -- that right there is probably over 50 just off the top of my head & that's a minuscule portion of what I've read throughout my entire life.

If you count all the books I've had to read for school and all the plays I've read, I would easily put it around 1,000 or more, but it's hard to know exactly.

:shrug:


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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: yogabunny]
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It is really no surprise that tmj has only read 15 books and thinks reading 1000.books is impossible

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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: akira_akuma]
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akira_akuma said:
um, obviously, i'm pretty sure. i even want to since i started reading... have you ever read anything good extensively? ever?

anything that's good or cool, i wish i could do. :shrug:

my3rdeye said:
I have no idea how many I read. Right now I am reading Gravity's Rainbow


and how is it so far?


I won't lie it's pretty complex. I haven't read any Thomas Pynchon before.

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Re: I have read 93 books that I can think of. How many have you read? [Re: morrowasted]
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morrowasted said:
It is really no surprise that tmj has only read 15 books and thinks reading 1000.books is impossible


I think a lot of non-readers would be surprised how fast you can read a book once you get really into it.


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