Love them. LOVE them. Just haven't been able to read to since school started. Was in the middle of one too...sad face 
Poll: BOOKS!!!
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Ooo! I love books!
Good ones? My dear sir/madam, the sheer amount of them is obscene! But of course, one can remember some...
I personally liked A Clockwork Orange (the movie's good too, but very different, visually). Its invented language gave it strong personality. Shakespeare's plays (okay, so they're not technically books) always offer something new. And yes, 21st century books can still be masterful literature. You just have to know where to look...
As of right now, I'm trying to complete several books: The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Monster Show, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Half the Sky. All are proving to be enjoyable, each in their own way.
Good ones? My dear sir/madam, the sheer amount of them is obscene! But of course, one can remember some...
I personally liked A Clockwork Orange (the movie's good too, but very different, visually). Its invented language gave it strong personality. Shakespeare's plays (okay, so they're not technically books) always offer something new. And yes, 21st century books can still be masterful literature. You just have to know where to look...
As of right now, I'm trying to complete several books: The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Monster Show, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Half the Sky. All are proving to be enjoyable, each in their own way.
I don't necessarily agree with that. Have books been around for a while? Sure they have, but then so has the spoken language. Every form of media has its own pros and cons.TestECull said:
Books
Pros: Self-paced; deep; offer a unique experience for every reader
Cons: Readers are tasked with generating the book world as they see fit
Movies
Pros: Stimulate various senses; present viewers with a common experience that is open to interpretation
Cons: "Read-only" viewing experience
Video Games
Pros: Stimulate various senses; enable actual interaction with a fully realized virtual world
Cons: Often not as deep as other media
Of course, the pros and cons are subject to debate. Those listed above are simply those that strike me as being particularly significant.
I'm disappointed that by your definition of a book Jonathon Livingston Seagull doesn't count and that was an amazing story. When it was released(I don't know if this has changed since, its been long enough) it was the best selling hardcover since Gone with the Wind.
As for books I am a big reader but that has dwindled a lot over the years as other responsibilities have crept in. In school I read pretty close to a novel every 2-3 days. Once I switched to college that cut down to about a book a week and now that I work way too much that has dropped to probably a book a month, maybe just a little bit quicker than that.
As for books I am a big reader but that has dwindled a lot over the years as other responsibilities have crept in. In school I read pretty close to a novel every 2-3 days. Once I switched to college that cut down to about a book a week and now that I work way too much that has dropped to probably a book a month, maybe just a little bit quicker than that.
Oh boy, a poll option that accurately describes my love of the written word! I seriously carry a book with me everywhere I go - or rather, everywhere I go when I leave the house; no need to carry a book with me everywhere I go inside the house (though I do still do that sometimes), as that's what shelves are for.
I compulsively acquire new reading material, and I go through several magnitude more books per year than your average American will read in their entire adult life (yay pointless but impressive statistics). Fortunately for my budget (and shelf space), I do tend to be extremely reticent to start 'brand new' things, as I tend to acquire absolutely everything I possibly can from any given series/author/franchise once I've enjoyed a particular volume - I shudder at how much I might have spent over the last year alone if I simply picked up all the series that momentarily attracted my passing fancy.
So yes, you could say that I like books.
I compulsively acquire new reading material, and I go through several magnitude more books per year than your average American will read in their entire adult life (yay pointless but impressive statistics). Fortunately for my budget (and shelf space), I do tend to be extremely reticent to start 'brand new' things, as I tend to acquire absolutely everything I possibly can from any given series/author/franchise once I've enjoyed a particular volume - I shudder at how much I might have spent over the last year alone if I simply picked up all the series that momentarily attracted my passing fancy.
So yes, you could say that I like books.
Nine times out of ten when you put some 200 page book in front of me and say it's the greatest thing in the world, I'll complain that it's unnecessarily long then read it and berate the friend that gave it to me. It's not to say that they're inherently bad as a medium, but people really dramatically overstate how good every book is. At least when somebody makes me watch a movie I can go to sleep if I don't give a crap, but I have to put the effort into these damn books when I could expend just as much effort doing something constructive.
If you don't mind female leads, I recommend looking up the following quartets from Tamora Pierce: The Song of the Lioness, The Immortals, and Protector of the Small (in that order). Also the First Truth quartet from Dawn Cook is very good and the Study trilogy from Maria V. Snyder.ThatLankyBastard said:
Perhaps you should try the Cirque du Freak series. I've been working on that one recently and it is a breeze. There are twelve books--I'm at around number 4 or 5 and I find myself completing a book within a 24 hours after getting it from the library. And I am not a speed reader by any means. The writing is a bit juvenile (it is youth fiction, after all) but I've found it to be interesting overall.Koroviev said:
I've recently begun reading in earnest again, yes. Sci-fi and fantasy is my realm. Serious books based more firmly in reality are usually depressing. Indeed, "classics" aren't usually known for their lightness of tone; I read principally for escapism.
Comedy books are also awesome.
Looking forward to Christmas!
After reading some above posts, one wonders...do people read because they enjoy reading? Or because it's something that makes them seem culturally competitive? Do you set yourself a goal of reading a book or do you just let it happen?
Comedy books are also awesome.
Looking forward to Christmas!
After reading some above posts, one wonders...do people read because they enjoy reading? Or because it's something that makes them seem culturally competitive? Do you set yourself a goal of reading a book or do you just let it happen?