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Offline nubbinator

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Books are evil....
« on: Sun, 25 January 2015, 06:11:11 »
They make you stay up until 4AM to finish them.  WHY AM I STILL AWAKE?!?!?
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Re: Books are evil....
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 25 January 2015, 06:13:30 »
U ... Read ? 
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Re: Books are evil....
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 25 January 2015, 06:22:13 »
Hehe.. Yeah, I have done that too, too many times.
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Re: Books are evil....
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 25 January 2015, 06:33:26 »
Was this... a magazine.. of the ........ variety ?

They don't count as books, even if you read the articles....
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Re: Books are evil....
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 25 January 2015, 16:55:03 »
Books make me sleepy.
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Re: Books are evil....
« Reply #5 on: Sun, 25 January 2015, 16:57:06 »
I wish I could still read , used to be able to devour a 600pages book in one day .
Nowadays A Song of Ice and Fire is sitting on my desk for more than a year and I haven't read half of it.
Screens distraction is too strong ...
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Re: Books are evil....
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 25 January 2015, 16:59:00 »
Quote from: azhdar on Sun, 25 January 2015, 16:57:06
I wish I could still read , used to be able to devour a 600pages book in one day .
Nowadays A Song of Ice and Fire is sitting on my desk for more than a year and I haven't read half of it.
Screens distraction is too strong ...

I had to work back up to it.  Grad school completely stole all desire to ever read again after reading 1-3k pages a week.  Then I slowly started reading for fun again and forgot how much I missed it.
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Re: Books are evil....
« Reply #7 on: Sun, 25 January 2015, 17:02:05 »
Quote from: nubbinator on Sun, 25 January 2015, 06:11:11
They make you stay up until 4AM to finish them.  WHY AM I STILL AWAKE?!?!?

After I hit 60, I got to the place where I could not go on past a certain point. I can feel it when it comes.

Very frustrating, when I page ahead and see that there are only 4 more pages in the chapter, but I know I can't get there.

Getting old sucks, in many ways, although it is rewarding in many others.

PS - Did you notice that I was able to quote you? Perhaps because it was at the beginning and very short.
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Re: Books are evil....
« Reply #8 on: Sun, 25 January 2015, 22:06:29 »
I try to read to the end of the chapter.

If the next chapter has only a few pages, I'll usually read that too.

Very rarely do I get to a point where I HAVE to read the next chapter, regardless of the time and how long the chapter is.

I generally read at night in bed, so if there is a cliff-hanger one evening it gives me something to look forward to before I sleep the next night.
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Re: Books are evil....
« Reply #9 on: Sun, 25 January 2015, 23:46:36 »
For fiction, since I only get my books from russian websites (arrgh)..  I'm don't get upset if I don't finish them..

I read 2 chapters each from the beginning, middle, and end.. 

That's usually how I read every book, unless it's SUPER HIGHLY RECOMMENDED....
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