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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2009 19:00:40 GMT
I am one of those people with the problem of unread books. I continue to buy books regularly, but I no longer read them regularly. I never seem to have as much time as I used to. (Damned internet! ) I could probably stop buying books for a year before I would run out of new things to read. Does anybody else have this problem?
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Post by tillystar on Oct 7, 2009 19:10:15 GMT
No, I wish I did. I want a years supply of books!
I never have spare books to read. Its the bonus of having a long journey to work and don't drive so get public transport everywhere that I get to read lots. I buy them compulsively but they just disappear too quickly. The same happens with cheese.
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Post by bazfaz on Oct 7, 2009 20:46:59 GMT
We seem to have little time to read books. People always expect me to spend my time reading books and seem not to understand I do other things too. Whwn we go on our summer holiday (in winter) we take some books with us but only books that we don't mind getting rid of. Then when we are travelling we swop them with other travellers.
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Post by bjd on Oct 8, 2009 7:13:39 GMT
I have the same problem. Although I appreciate being able to buy books in English so easily now, I sometimes wish online book buying had never been invented. I was more limited when I had to buy my books in Paris (lousy choice of English books in Toulouse) or when on holiday in Canada. So I buy books, particularly non-fiction, then they sit on the shelf for ages before I get around to them. Meanwhile, I still get books from the library, borrow from friends and read novels that I have bought.
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Post by existentialcrisis on Oct 8, 2009 7:18:24 GMT
I have a terrible time making it through any book, which is ironic considering I majored in English. So I have various books that are actually half-read amongst my pile of unread books. Most legendary is my copy of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I've been reading this book for almost 10 years! I orginally heard about it in a philosophy themed online forum when I was 17. Then I unfolded all the flaps of a pack of cherry flavoured smoking papers and underneath the inside flap it read "Read Atlas Shrugged". Weird, huh? Then I found the book sitting against the chalk board in my economics classroom. I asked my teacher if I could borrow it... but unfortunately I've had the book ever since and it's been 10 years! I'm probably only about half way done.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 8, 2009 16:02:31 GMT
But you actually intend to finish it?!
I agree the serendipity of the rolling papers and the book on the chalk board can be construed as a directive to read the book, but .......... isn't it time to let yourself off the hook?
Sue Grafton's character, Kinsey Milhone, carries around a copy of Moby Dick in the trunk of her car. She must be your sister under the skin.
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Post by patricklondon on Oct 8, 2009 21:24:32 GMT
Oh goodness yes. What with the books I get given for Christmas (it would be rude not to try) and things that catch my eye, and things I ought to have read....There's a pile of 27 (I've just counted) on the pile at the moment. One of them is Don Quixote that I bought in his anniversary year (how long ago was that now...?) - and that has to be a retirement project.
The trouble is I buy a newspaper every day, and have a subscription to a (well worth while) serious comment magazine, and commute to work by bike, so the time available is a bit compressed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2009 21:41:32 GMT
If I didn't read the newspaper in the metro every day, I would manage to read a lot more books. But I think it is important to read the newspaper -- and also it interests me.
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Post by existentialcrisis on Oct 13, 2009 7:38:11 GMT
I am not sure if I will actually finish reading the book. I haven't touched it in a number of years. I just feel bad about not finishing books...
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 13, 2009 7:39:17 GMT
Trust me -- no one is writing it down in that big book upstairs.
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