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hysteria ([info]hysteria) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2006-06-02 01:58:00


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Current mood:hot

Small booktards wank
peace_criminal addresses "the heaps of books per month readers" asking if they are, in fact, actually reading. This is probably inspired by somebody posting on the previous day that they had only read 29 books during the month of May, their personal lowest total so far. People leap on the defensive, amidst the genuine replies, and cerulgalactus wins the discussion here.

Quite a tiny wank, but booktards tends towards wankage every few months when the book snobs and book tards go head to head, so I figured I'd note it. Now I'm going to continue reading at my regular pace, which I've been told is fast, while whimpering over the idea of people reading 300+ books a year. :{



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flightstothesea
2006-06-02 06:39 am UTC (link)
Dude, who has time to read THAT many books in a month?

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[info]keri
2006-06-02 06:46 am UTC (link)
I imagine that parents with young children can manage it. Those ten pages go by really fast.

But, uhm, I've been known to read an average of a book per day for several months at a go in high school - I'd read between and during classes, and when I got home, and since I wasn't exactly reading War and Peace or anything (though I did have plenty of books for class), it was fairly speedy going.

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[info]geekmagirl
2006-06-02 06:54 am UTC (link)
I read 2-3 books a day. It takes about two hours out of my day. I was able to manage that even when I was working and going to school at the same time.

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[info]sepiamagpie
2006-06-02 12:30 pm UTC (link)
I used to read that many! It's a combination of being a fast reader and just having a few free hours a day to indulge.

Of course, now I'm lucky if I read three books a year. :(

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[info]sithwitch13
2006-06-02 05:35 pm UTC (link)
I used to, since I have a habit of reading 3 or 4 books at once (keep one in a backpack, one by my bed, one in the living room and one in the bathroom) and I've always been a fast reader. Unfortunately college cut in on my reading time and I've been down to maybe 5-10 books a month for about a year.

Hopefully this summer things will pick up again :-D

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iwanttobeasleep
2006-06-02 08:04 pm UTC (link)
Depends what you're reading. I used to do that, getting short books or easy reads, most of which I could polish off in down time during classes.

What worries me is, who has the money for that many books? The librarians look at you funny if you get more than five at a time.

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(no subject) - [info]yubsie, 2006-06-03 12:59 am UTC

[info]yubsie
2006-06-03 12:57 am UTC (link)
I used to be able to do it. Then I went to university.

I miss reading something other than scientific journals. :p

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(no subject) - [info]amyheartssiroc, 2006-06-04 04:30 am UTC

[info]chibikaijuu
2006-06-02 06:48 am UTC (link)
You know, it'd be perfectly possible for me to read and absorb a couple of books a day.

If, you know, I didn't bother to do anything else, like work, or go online, or go outside, or talk to other people. Those sorts of unimportant things. I honestly don't understand why someone would read quite that much, unless they were a student on summer break with no job, no camp, and no friends. I love to read and have since I was four, but there *are* other things to do out there. Really.
I swear.

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[info]loonylupinlover
2006-06-02 06:58 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I generally read books in 2-3 hours, and have read three or four in a day before. (And I am proud of reading both Half-Blood Prince and Order of the Phoenix in one sitting each, at 6 and 9 hours respectively, starting at 1 AM upon getting my books. [/end shameless braggin]) But usually I only go to the library once a month, check out like 15 or 20 books, read them, and then forget to go to the library again and pay massive late fees.

300+ books a year is within my ability, but I'm a lazy ho, so it ends up being much, much lower. I really should keep track, it'd encourage me to read more....

Oh, bookwank.

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[info]jar
2006-06-02 07:02 am UTC (link)
Most of those people add YA books and graphic novels to their list. Not a lot of it is real, challenging literature

Because there was never a graphic novel that was real or challenging? What a fucktard.

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[info]mariagoner
2006-06-02 07:08 am UTC (link)
Bookwank, yay! Is this a first of OTF_wank?

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[info]anne_noonlight
2006-06-02 07:09 am UTC (link)
When I was at my grandmother's at about fourteen, I remember reading four books a day. She didn't believe in television, she had no board games for my sister to drag me into, and her unit had three rooms. Since she didn't leave the house, either, it was either read or go completely nuts.

Mummy dearest the teacher's aide, however, beats me; she reads probably six or seven a day. They've got at least five words a page, too.

But I'd never want to read like that again unless I had to, especially not if the books were like the one with the killer baby whose eyes turned to liquid and ran out. Reading's something I do for fun, not competitively.

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[info]doomsday
2006-06-02 07:50 am UTC (link)
I totally thought that said "boobtards."

This wank has only made me more ashamed of the fact that I read rather slowly and deliberately. :(

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[info]dandywolves
2006-06-02 08:01 am UTC (link)
god, and I thought I was good for reading 55 books last year. so far this year, I'm up to 22!

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[info]radiotrash
2006-06-02 08:21 am UTC (link)
I once read a book during a day and my step-mom flat out refused to believe I read it. It was from the Valdemear series, the Winds ones? With Elspeth and Nightfeather? Yeah, like that was so hard to believe. o_O

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[info]caffeine_fairy
2006-06-02 12:04 pm UTC (link)
Dear Scarey People

It's not a competition

Love
CF

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[info]missdaisy
2006-06-02 12:20 pm UTC (link)
I never knew I could be pretenious about reading fast. What a waste!

I'm actually embarrassed about how fast I read and used to pretend I was reading slower. I even hid books that came later in a series inside an earlier book so my parents wouldn't realize I'd finished so quickly.

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[info]ladyvorkosigan
2006-06-02 02:55 pm UTC (link)
I once got in an argument with someone online (because I'm an idiot who never learns that arguing with people on the internet is stupid) who called a third party's list of 22 books read during the year "pathetic." It's a type of neo-class snobbery, I think, combined with intellectual snobbery: you mean you have a job you have to go to? Where you earn something pedestrian as money? And it takes up time you could be spent reading all 37 of the Dragonrider of Pern books in one week? Plebian!

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[info]nekoneko
2006-06-02 05:07 pm UTC (link)
People keep track of how many books they read outside of something like a summer reading club done by a library?

Wow. I just, you know, read. And not care that much. (Although my desire to read is being killed by being an English major. The Crying of Lot 49, here I come.)

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[info]narcissam
2006-06-02 05:08 pm UTC (link)
We're not supposed to read 300+ books a year?

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(no subject) - [info]che, 2006-06-02 07:32 pm UTC

[info]aislyn
2006-06-02 05:39 pm UTC (link)
I have an annoying urge to post a comment in that community about how quick it is to read an audiobook...

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(no subject) - [info]mookie, 2006-06-02 09:50 pm UTC

[info]dreamoflife02
2006-06-02 06:52 pm UTC (link)
See, when I was a kid in elementary school, I used to read through 300 books a year easy. I would come home from school and basically read all day-- some YA books, a lot of adult books (I was big into Agatha Christie at one point.) Then I got older and along came things such as five or six hours of homework a night in high school, and then came a part-time job, and then came college. Now I'm lucky to get through a book in two weeks. I don't boggle at these people's reading speed, I boggle that they actually have time to read that much. *boggles*

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(no subject) - [info]heddychaa, 2006-06-02 09:58 pm UTC

iwanttobeasleep
2006-06-02 08:23 pm UTC (link)
I've been working on the same book for two weeks now, and you know what? I am perfectly cool with that. Because I finally got around to buying FFX, and that is soooo much more fun.

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[info]mastervex
2006-06-03 01:49 am UTC (link)
Some people can read a couple books a day and have plenty of time for other things. Some people can only read a few a year. Just because you can do something doesn't mean everyone can, and just because you can't do something doesn't mean no one can. Why the hell does it matter, exactly? o_O

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[info]frau_eva
2006-06-03 06:26 am UTC (link)
*boggles*

Jesus Fuck, have these people not heard of taking your damn time and enjoying the friggin' book? Reading a book to, ya know, savor the language and plotting instead of blowing through it like an article on celebrity fashion or somesuch crap?

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