[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
2 in my lifetime…
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which ones?[/quote]
No county for old men and scar tissue.
Satisfied for life!!!
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
2 in my lifetime…
[/quote]
which ones?[/quote]
No county for old men and scar tissue.
Satisfied for life!!! [/quote]
Well, maybe you are easy to satisfy…
In a literal sense…
One.
About 20. Since I got a tablet I’ve been using scribd so that’s mostly why. On a side note, not sure if you guys are a fan of Dan johns articles but his books are incredible. He’s a great writer and coach and I highly reccommend reading his stuff. Never let go is one of my favorite books ever.
I probably truly read and finished 3 or 4 books last year.
There’s several I’ve skimmed and read interesting parts from, but never finished. Some fiction, some non-fiction.
There’s a few I’m slowly working through. Recently my reading has been Conan stories interspersed with Seneca’s Epistles and Cicero’s De Officiis.
Here and there I go back to the Iain M Banks novel I’m trying to finish. I think I’ve been holding off on finishing that book since he died and there won’t be any more in the series.
Probably 5 books a year for pleasure reading intermingled with articles, short stories, magazines, Wikipedia (seriously spend way to much time on here), occasional poetry, books I read to my kids, and another 5-8 textbooks currently. Honestly, I feel like I spend about half my time reading in some form or another.
I started keeping a list of the books I read two years ago.
I’ve read 67 since March of 2012.
Weird thing is I read non-fiction faster than most fiction…I mean like words per minute.
I read an Alex Cross detective book by whoever that author is (I hear he has ghost writers anyway) and I read the book in about 4 hours because each page is mostly dialog that is a sentence or two long there simply aren’t that many words on a page.
Right now I’m reading The Count of Monte Cristo unabridged and it’s great but I just want to say that it’s 1100 pages and lots of huge paragraphs of exposition instead of dialog so it took me days just to get to page 400 where I am now.
Do T Nation articles count?
Heaps, I couldn’t actually put a number on it. But I read something every night, be it a novel or something technical. The latter could be something related to training or just something of interest.
I often reread a book. Working my way through ‘Gates of Fire’ by Stephen Pressfield again. I loved it the first time and am still engrossed the second time through. His ‘Tides of War’ is also just as gripping. Seriously you can smell the blood and the steel.
Love the Kindle! I’m normally a techno-sceptic, but the Kindle was the first electronic device I heard of well in advance of its release where I actually thought ‘I WANT that’. I have a mental list of the things to grab in case the house is on fire. Its wallet, keys, Kindle, iPad…the rest can burn.
Probably average one book per month, as well as a weekly newspaper.
I wish I read more but I read a lot for work so can’t always be bothered when I get home.
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
I think I average about 3 books a week year round.
Reason my wife made me get an Ipad, so I have a kindle app, nook app and IBook.
We had way to many books at the house and she wanted them all gone. [/quote]
Seems like she’s not alone in her concerns.
Probably 30+ a year although I find now that with a kindle I read more crappy books, so that number might be higher, but I still have stacks of books at home that I just can’t bring myself to donate to anyone as I like having lots in the book cases.
I read about 8-12 books a year, not including textbooks. I wish I had more time, and I usually read before bed, but lately a lot of my reading time has been spent catching up on the news.
If I stick to books that I’m specifically interested in and came across in my own meanderings, versus some books that somebody recommended, I tend to finish them more often and more quickly. Sometimes, I’ll read a book a friend, blog post, forum post, mentioned then be sick of it after a week and either finish it out of duty or say f— it and not finish.
[quote]csulli wrote:
Well these days zero lol.[/quote]
you are implying you know how to read, good one csulli !
[quote]roybot wrote:
One.[/quote]
I read a lot. I’m not sure how much , and I tend to read three or four books at a time, forget about one, finish two others, start a fourth, and forget about the first, and then finish that six months later.
And then there’s a few that I have on my Kindle app on my Ipod that I read slowly when I’m bored - I’m about 30 percent through Moby Dick and and halfway through Les Mis. These will probably take me a year because of the plodding pace I’ve established.
But I read a lot.
And mostly nonfiction, although I’m trying to read a bit more fiction too. But the fiction I always feel like I’m wasting my time on because so much is garbage, so I read a lot of classics, but those take fucking forever because they’re difficult reads.
Reading is one of my favorite things. In addition to reading a ton of articles online, I read about 50 books a year. I’d say 80 percent of those are novels, and the rest are non-fiction.
no time to read - too busy pillaging and plundering to make time for reading.
lmao derek!
Depends on how much I travel. I can usually read a full book on two round trip flights that are about 2-3 hours each leg. Probably read a good 10-15 books/year on top of my professional reads.
Probably need to read more non-fiction, but once I get out of the work world, I’m kind of tired of it.