Reading Habits (Boring Poll, sorry, but I need to know...)

[southerngirlwriter]

I'll post a fun, or at least, more interesting, poll soon.

HOW MUCH DO YOU READ? For purposes of this poll, I am talking about books, not newspapers, magazines, or web sites.

I think the best way is to look at a large period of time. To the best of your recollection, how many books did you read during 2003?

[Gadave]

1. I stopped reading books for the same reason I stopped buying little debbie

If I start one I read it all the way through non-stop. Nine hours or more in one spot is bad for the body.

[Kamika]

6. haha yes

Been there done that.

Your brain feels like pudding

[Gadave]

7. After Which?

Eating the 12 swiss cake rolls or the nine hours of reading?

My middle feels like pudding after option 1.

[Kamika]

10. The reading

I dont eat or drink during

[Gadave]

12. I dont either

I don't even go to the bathroom.

I mean, when I start eating little debbie swiss cake rolls, I can't stop either. So I haven't bought a box in 10 years. Its funny I dont eat snacks generally, but that one was my weakness.

Its the same with a book. When I was a freshman in college, i read Ayn Rands Atlas Shrugged from front to back over one really sad weekend. Sadly, it wasn't even a good book.

[Kamika]

13. oh.. no

I can eat tons of potato chips without feeling like crap :D


btw books I've read in one session

"pride and Predjudice"
"Remains of the day"
"god of small things"
"I know why the caged bird sings"
"Things fall apart"

I wont count the trek book's Ive read in one sweep

[Breezy du Nord]

2. I read quite a few a year, though

Now that I'm ging up TV I imaging it will be more.

[Kamika]

3. I read like crazy

Mostly non "sophisticated" stuff like star trek but I love reading.


But one thing I'm not intellectual or anything I just started to love reading when my dyslexia got better

[NJCher]

4. question

Why are you interested only in books?


Cher

[southerngirlwriter]

8. I'm arguing with a friend about whether liberals or conservatives

are bigger readers.

I don't want to include magazines and web sites because time spent reading usenet or Sports Illustrated or whatever isn't germane to the debate.

As someone who's always online and has uh, one, two, three, four magazines within arm's reach at this moment, I'm not prejudiced. :-)

[supernova]

5. I don't really judge by number of books

so much as what I learned of a given subject, and where my intellectual proclivities take me in a given year. I think I read 2-3 books a month. That's about as fast as I can read and still digest the material appropriately.

Once I pick up a book about a subject or by a particular author, I want to read all the books in that series or on that subject (or most of the best ones anyway).

[Bertha Venation]

9. A LOT.

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[kayob1]

11. Don't watch TV

so have to do something. :)