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Just wondering if anyone else here reads like I do. I go through about a book a day or every two days.
Anyone else or am I the only geek?
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I doo! I love to read. Ive got over 500 books in my bedroom. My husband gets so mad he trips over them. I love the twilight books and stuff like that! I loveee vampires!
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Just wondering if anyone else here reads like I do. I go through about a book a day or every two days.
Anyone else or am I the only geek?
i used to read like that but now i'm lucky if i can get through a book a month! i've got a husband, 2 kids, and a house to take care of so reading is kind of low on my "to do" list now. when i do get a chance to curl up with a book i like to read for pleasure, i.e. stephen kind, ben rehder, michael crichton, etc.
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Yes, I too am an avid reader. I have always loved to read. Paperbacks, Hardcover and now digital ereader which is way cool. I usually read 1.5 books a day.
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I read when I have time which lately I haven't had much.
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I used to ALL the time...now i am so busy it is hard tofind the time...
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I have a husband and three kids but I can't imagine not finding time to read just a little each day even if it is before I go to bed. When my youngest is in the bathtub, I usually let her play for a while so I can read a chapter or two.
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I love all books, but especially espionage and science fiction. I've found lately the best-quality science fiction is being written based on video game series, where authors who are avid fans volunteer their skills to develop story lines and fill in cracks that the most devoted will pay to read!
I can still knock out a Charles Dickens or Shakespeare too, though!
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I also love to read I dont have too much time, but every once in a while I can sit down and read. I love Fern Michaels, Debbie Macomber, etc. :thumbsup:
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I highly recommend any thing by Vine Deloria Jr,
Joy Harjo
Winona LaDuke
Archie Fire Lame Deer
Wilma Mankiller
Russel Means
Robert Mirabal
Leslie Marmon Silko
and In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
by Peter Matthiessen
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I highly recommend any thing by Vine Deloria Jr,
Joy Harjo
Winona LaDuke
Archie Fire Lame Deer
Wilma Mankiller
Russel Means
Robert Mirabal
Leslie Marmon Silko
and In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
by Peter Matthiessen
Thanks, I'll have to look into those.
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I've lost count how many books I've read over a long, long lifetime, folks and I'm still reading. There's nothing like the mind's eye creating the images described by the author. I've been a sucker for a good read since I was a boy in the 40s! Love the movies but give me a good book anyday.
Uncle Sal
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Yes, I enjoy reading books a lot. I Love to read good romance, drama, and self help books. Sometimes when I don't have time to read I will make a few extra hours to read.
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I read a whole book front to back at one of my jobs. But I seldom have time to sit down and read a book, I get sidetracked, preoccupied, I have to always be doing two things at once, like right now, I am missing a movie, typing, ha ha.
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I Like To Read. When I Want to relax I find Myself Looking For A good Book To Read.
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yes i like reading about angels,poetry,
cookbooks and of course the bible.
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:thumbsup:YES!!!!! I turned a spare bedroom into my personal library, and it is my favorite room in the house!!! I won a scholership to U.C.Davis for my writing, but I was hit by a car, and can barely spell anymore.
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:) I used to read books...not anymore because I find them boring and time consuming...a total waste of my personal time. Libraries fine you if you return them late...I have better things too do with my time. Now I read sypnoses (summaries) of books if I find them to know what these books are all about.
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:) I used to read books...not anymore because I find them boring and time consuming...a total waste of my personal time. Libraries fine you if you return them late...I have better things too do with my time. Now I read sypnoses (summaries) of books if I find them to know what these books are all about.
Sorry, but I find that a very sad attitude. No judgement or anything, but I just can't imagine finding books or reading a waste of personal time.
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Last book I read is an older one called, Intensity by Dean Koontz....pretty darn good book.
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I love to read! And I don't count myself as a geek, lol
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I love to read I have tons of stuff stashed on my blackberry as well---classics, King, Koontz, Barker, Zelazny, Harry Potter, Spiderwick, Twilight, Terry Brooks, Douglas Adams, Dummies guides, biographies, all kinds of stuff---so yes a professed GEEK :wave:
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I've always been a very avid reader...it's funny, one time I was at somebody's house and his family came over, and they were watching tv...a commercial came on about reading, and this chick goes "Reading is dumb, who would wanna do that??" I immediately knew this was the stupidest sentence I'd ever hear in my life.
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I am an avid reader, too. I don't know if it's a generational thing or not -- love of books, I mean. I'm 50 and my husband is 63 and we both love to read. I think one of the best pleasures in life is the feel of a hardcover book in my hands (okay -- quite your sniggering out there!). We raised our son in a home where we were always reading and I read to him like crazy when he was a child. Now, he's 21 and would rather play video games or watch movies before he would ever crack a book. Drives me crazy! I think it's a generational issue due to the way kids are taught in school today. But, I'm sure there must be some young folk out there who still love books in their young adult lives. NOTE: I would love to have a big house with a huge private library to go to and curl up with a good book. :)
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Hell yes!
Well....when I can.
Usually I'm stuck in a textbook.
I also read online stories.
Of course there's that whole grey area of comic books/manga whether or not it constitutes as reading....it doesn't people.
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I use to read a lot but haven't read much the past few years. I love Karen Kingsbury .... my favorite author.
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I love reading books! I have a bookshelf full of books in my room. I enjoy reading urban non-fiction, fiction, drama, and some suspense. If it appears to be a good book I will read it!
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yes,depends on which book it is.
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I like to read magazines....
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Opps, I read books too, like self help and feng Shui.
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I really enjoy reading books when I get interested in them. Usually if I find a book that I like, I will read through the whole thing in a day or two. The latest has been the entire Harry Potter series. Once I started reading them I just kept reading them for like 10 hours straight. It is hard for me to start reading a book, but once I do I finish it quickly.
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I am an avid reader, too. I don't know if it's a generational thing or not -- love of books, I mean. I'm 50 and my husband is 63 and we both love to read. I think one of the best pleasures in life is the feel of a hardcover book in my hands (okay -- quite your sniggering out there!). We raised our son in a home where we were always reading and I read to him like crazy when he was a child. Now, he's 21 and would rather play video games or watch movies before he would ever crack a book. Drives me crazy! I think it's a generational issue due to the way kids are taught in school today. But, I'm sure there must be some young folk out there who still love books in their young adult lives. NOTE: I would love to have a big house with a huge private library to go to and curl up with a good book. :)
Well I'm 27 and my dad also is an avid reader (although my mom doesn't read books)...I became this way because when I was between 7 and 12 years old, my dad made me read a novel or book of my choice for 1 hour every day after school, then he would skim thru the part I read and ask me a few questions to make sure I honestly did it...I despised this at first, and eventually realized how much I loved reading!
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I read everything. I'm a sucker for historical romances, I love anything history related..just recently finished the whatifs of American history.
I am not into sci-fi but will occasionally suck up a fantasy.
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Lately, I'll start a book but never finish. Now I am on my third unfinished book in 6 months. Ten years ago, I would a book a month with no problem. I think with the internet, my mode of learning has changed from discovery to search and scan. The sad part of this is, a lot of kids are not learning the answers. They are just instead knowing where to get it.
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I love to read as well, but I don't get a whole lot of time to do it. I feel like most of the books I read are quite long and you definitely wouldn't be able to read them in a day or two! I really like the classics, I can't stand stuff like Twilight.
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I love to read. I like mostly bio stuff though true events that actually happened. I like to read about struggles people have and overcome. Im also a huge fan of anything in Oprah's book club. A really good friend got me into reading a book called Stick Figure, true diary of an 11 year old girl struggling with an eating disorder, I found the book sad but fascinating at the same time, due to the fact that I do have two little girls and this could happen at any moment to any child it just struck me hard. I would recommend that book to anyone else raising girls. Its sad the effects the world, media have on children that young and younger.
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i'm a huge fan of books in the suspense/horror area<3. dean koontz is my absolute favorite. i also love john saul and jeff lindsay. and i was turned on to noel hynd by a fellow fusioncash user ;p twilight/harry potter are also at the top of my list.
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haha, i'm a nerd and quite proud~
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Loveeeee to read. thats usually what i spend my free time on. My favorites are the classics. Bronte, Dickens and Austen are my favorites. Love Jane Eyre. I'm now reading The History of Tom Jones....... a little lon gbut very different from alot of other books I've read.
My young daughters are all very good readers .
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I read as much as I possibly can! I mainly read African American authors though. But I also like Nora Roberts. Very good!
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Not very often, but my favorites are Pride and Prejudice and Kamikaze Girls.
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Enjoying Dan Brown's latest...Plus a big S. King fan.
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It seems like reading an actual book is becoming a lost art
I try to read a little bit everyday
Whether a magazine or Novel
Just got thru reading Lonesome Dove
Again
Lost count how many times I've read this Novel
Does anyone else RE-Read books?
Favorites?
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i don't read books for fun, only for school assignments
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I love to read also. I'm waiting for my library to get a copy of Stephen King's Under The Dome back in. Has anyone read it yet?
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Love to Read
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I read books on personal finance, poker, and biographies.
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we are a book worm family! we sit down together for at least 30 minutes a day. Riley (4 year old) got a tag reading system for christmas and i love it! back to my *bleep* books while he delves into his cat in the hat and such appropriate topics. Zac (infant) still tries to eat my books if i'm reading for longer than 15 minutes but i guess he just wants to see what's so darn interesting! ;)
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It seems like reading an actual book is becoming a lost art
I try to read a little bit everyday
Whether a magazine or Novel
Just got thru reading Lonesome Dove
Again
Lost count how many times I've read this Novel
Does anyone else RE-Read books?
Favorites?
I re-read all mine. There are a few favorites that I've had to replace, they're so ratty from use. Others I'll re-read for lack of any new material.
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If magazines count then yeah lol but as for novels and such not so much liike i used to
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It seems like reading an actual book is becoming a lost art
I try to read a little bit everyday
Whether a magazine or Novel
Just got thru reading Lonesome Dove
Again
I am a FAN of Books from My Childhood.... I can't Live without It!
IT'S MY LIFE!
Lost count how many times I've read this Novel
Does anyone else RE-Read books?
Favorites?
I re-read all mine. There are a few favorites that I've had to replace, they're so ratty from use. Others I'll re-read for lack of any new material.
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i keep a library of my favorites that i like to reread in my office. the ones that are "ehh" i trade at used book stores for credits. ;)
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I'm not a big reader. I really only read books from the video game series Halo. lol. I'm reading a collection of short stories right now.
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I absolutely love to read. I haven't been reading as much as I used to. I am reading a great book by Mary Higgins Clark "The Lottery Winner". I read alot of Dean Koontz also. :thumbsup:
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i have my own library, and I constantly have a book open .. I am reading, 'The Far Corner', now, written about the Pacific Northwest.
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i used to read like crazy just like that a book a day but i have to say i have slowed down alot and i wish i didnt
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If i had the time to read a book i would but with a 1and a hlf year old son it is kinda hard to find time to even turn on my computer.
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I read constantly. Any little minute I can find. I can go through a good book in a day or too. I read a lot of older books and find that I quite enjoy the creativity I find there.
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I usually enjoy self help books I can gain knowlege from
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I read books to my children on a daily basis, and read articles, ect. that teach me new things all the time! When I was younger I read more books myself but now never seem to find the time!
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I enjoy reading, when I have time!
Recently I just finished Freakonomics, which was very interesting...
I suggest people check it out if they can...read it with a grain
of salt of course, but be sure to give it a chance..I got something
interesting insights out of it..
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I love to read, but I don't have a lot of time. I'm trying out audiobooks because I can exercise while I "read". ;D
Just started the Harry Potter series.
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Nope never read a book in my life. lol. Yeah I read books......