How much do you read?

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Well, I went to the Mid-Manhattan library Monday and took out 25 books. The average page number was like, 250-300 pages.

I've finished them all. :D
I am nothing
but a mouthful of 'sorry's, half-hearted
apologies that roll of my tongue, smoothquick, like 'r's
or maybe like pocket candy
that's just a bit too sweet.

~*~




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Oh yeah, my mom takes away my books when I don't do well in school, so I have to hide them. xD
I am nothing
but a mouthful of 'sorry's, half-hearted
apologies that roll of my tongue, smoothquick, like 'r's
or maybe like pocket candy
that's just a bit too sweet.

~*~




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I am constantly reading. As a kid I read everything I could get my hands on, and was reading stuff way over my age group (I still remember my friends' and teachers' faces when, at age ten, I waltzed into class carrying a copy of Les Misérables that might have been half as big as me), strongly encouraged in that by my father.
And yeah, I was one of those kids who got punished by not being allowed to read. I was miserable when that happened, let me tell you.
I don't really read 'real books' right now, because those tend to be heavy and I travel too much to be able to afford the bother, but my Kindle's used in overtime when I'm on the plane or in transit, and I have my trusty computer and my fanfiction archives and communities when I'm tucked away in boarding school. I reckon I must read between fifty to six hundred pages in a day, depending on how much else I have to do, but I've been know to just sit in bed and read through a thousand, two thousand over the course of the day.
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Fiction? Not enough. :wink:

Non-Fiction? Every like, day. :)




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I became a reading addict at age of seven. Science fiction, kids books, adventures, encyclopedias. Comic books :D
At twelve I read everything by Kurt Vonnegut /up to then/, but apart from this I only started reading more serious stuff when I reached twenty. Before that it was mainly sci-fi, fantasy and thirties-forties pulps. And the incidental Ludlum/Clancy/Wolf brick. And weird brit humor like Tom Sharpe and Spike MIlligan. Then at twenty I read Crime and Punishment and Anna Karenina and thought:
a) I'm so glad I didn't read this when I was younger. On needs accumulated experience to appreciate the nuances
b) these are authors who forge literature that verges on psychedelics, as in the force of influence upon the sensitive mind.
Back then and right now I usualy have half a dozen novels going at the same time and I read them up in bursts of a few days. Between 2002 and 2009 my reading of fiction waned sharply, 'cause I concentrated on the various branches of the social sciences.
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I've been reading since I was about two or three...I don't really remember most of what I read then. xD
But I do know that I remember following Lemony Snicket's Series Of Unfortunate Events to the very end.
A few years ago I seemed to force myself to read fantasy novels. I wouldn't pick up any sci-fi, or any romance (which was probably for the best). But the truth was I only really finished about half of the ones I bought. Some I never even read, and they still remain on my shelf.
At twelve I was introduced to the world of dystopian fiction by Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series (which I had looked at - but thought wouldn't be for me - during that forced fantasy period). Previously I had read Animal Farm by George Orwell, so I decided Nineteen Eighty-Four would be the best for me to start off with. I was hooked. This lead me to the remaining of 'the big three', Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451. Then I read Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? His other books led me to more general science fiction, and here I am today. xD
Currently my reading habits are rather 'on and off'. Sometimes I can read whole books in one sitting, sometimes I don't feel the motivation to read a chapter.
... Unless it's a farm.




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I don't really read anywhere near enough any more, I find it hard to focus long enough to actually sit down with a book. It sucks, really.
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i go through periods of reading loads, in the last two weeks i have read over 8000 pages.

I need to get a life.




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I've been reading since I was very little, I can't ever remember NOT reading! I read almost every night before I go to sleep. I read a bazillion books a year. During the school year when I have English and French I can't read because I usually have to read a couple books for those course so I tend to focus on those books.. but it makes me sad not to read my books :P




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I started reading in fifth grade. That addiction evolved to an anime addiction, then both, then writing. At this point I haven't read for a while (minus school stuff), but I would like to... I am planning on taking a break from writing to read more so I can learn more techniques in the future. Maybe a month or two from now, for about a month.
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