Do you read?

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Any book worms here?

 

[Nathan]

Of course I read the Bible, but I've also read Tom Sawyer.

I really want Animal Farm.

 

[Billi]

Here's an online version of Animal Farm if you are interested, I love books and love seeing them online. I like classics. I remember reading Animal Farm in high school, required. I didn't like it, but that's just me.
http://www.george-orwell.org/Animal_Farm/index.html

 

[Sketchy]

I've read thousands of books...I adore them and have shelves and shelves of them. Mostly, I read fantsy/sci-fi and classics. There's an interesting meme going around about the top 100 books (according to the BBC) which states most people have read 6 or fewer of the titles--I've read over half of them. I'd also love to get my hands on that collection of Jules Verne! It looks great (I've read three of the five).

 

[zombiegirl]

Well, I just officially changed my major in school to English...so I'm about to start reading A LOT! My focus is going to be literature.

I have been reading aspie books (how to get along with NT's...social cues to note, etc). I enjoy audio books when I'm out and about a lot. I've "read" many audio books. Also, I've read many short stories.

 

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On a scale from 1 to 28 how jealous are you?

U reed?

That's a pretty cool cover.

 

[Firnafth]

Every time I see the title to this thread, I think of the song (Louis Prima I think) which has these lyrics:

"When I ask him does he read he says, 'I tell you hon, I read a little bit but not enough to hurt me none.'"

The line actually refers to a jazz player who is asked about reading sheet music.


In any case, I read fairly often. I enjoy reading scientific papers:geek:. I also read science fiction and fantasy that I find at the public library; usually, I check one book out at a time. Sometimes I do not like them and don't finish them, but sometimes I like them. Sometimes I check out books I have already read as a book version of comfort food.

 

[juffur]

I love books. I'm currently reading "The Moral Landscape (how science can determine human values)" by Sam Harris. I have two old books from the 19th century I've been planning on reading as well, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Charles Darwin the Descent of Man 2nd edition 1873 or 1874, and Hugh Millers works Cruise of the Betsey, from around the 1850s I believe (He is an early geologist).

 

[superboyian]

I don't often read but lately, I've been getting the hang of the iBooks app that I have on my iPod and I must say, it's definitely worth having, it's like reading stories but on the pod instead and normally when I read books, its normally tutorials and comics, nothing so major.

 

[Brick]

I just finished a book called Overwinter by David Welligton. Prior to that, I started Twilight.

Question: Does anybody else think it obsessive that I had to grab a pen and start editing Stephanie Meyer for grammar and style?

 

[KinksFan]

I read books and materials pertaining to the main special interests that I have.

 

[Spinning Compass]

I am an obsessive reader. I learned to read before I entered kindergarten which caused a lot of trouble as back then (early 1960's) they weren't encouraging kids to learn to read before they entered school (now it's the opposite)! I read about anything and everything that catches my fancy. Homeland Security probably has a big file on me by now, all the books I have taken out of the library.

This fall the local community theater did a production of The Crucible and I was cast as Martha Corey. When I read the script, I laughed. It was her fondness for reading "strange books" that lead to her downfall!

 

[Calcifer]

Yup, I read.
Kind of compulsively.

 

[PanPaniscus]

Yeah I love reading, it's a good way to pass the time. I can get through a good book in a day if I'm persistent enough.

 

[Firnafth]

I recently read The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (of 2001: A Space Odyssey fame). I read it cover-to-cover, almost 1000 pages spanning 62 years of publication (1937-1999). What a career! It was interesting seeing how the stories changed over the years, especially in terms of his age, current events, and technology.

 

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Arthur C. Clarke?! I like!

Childhood's End and Rendezvous with Rama are excellent books. I read Childhood's End in my mid-teens and Rendezvous with Rama about four years ago. I prefer the former.

 

[Geordie]

I read Wikipedia - just that? I suppose so...

 

[Withnail88]

Uh, only all the time.
Sadly, I have not been able to actually finish a book for years either. It's not that I don't enjoy what I've selected, I just can't finish it.
I think the last one I actually started and finished was Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret over a year ago. People thought I was weird for reading it, of course, but I liked it.

 

[Geordie]

Now I read The Deltium

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[King_Oni]

I really have to be in a reading phase. A few months ago I read "a couple" of books. At the moment I'm having a hard time finding interest to sit down for one.