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Old 02-21-2007, 04:49 PM   #1
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How long did it take you to finish the book?

It took me five days. I'm obsessed, and i'm even scared of Erik now...
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Old 05-15-2007, 04:12 PM   #2
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I finished this book in about 6 hours, i could not put it down! i started reading it on the bus home from school and other than a few hours i had to do homework and eat, i didn't stop reading until i finished it, which was at 1 in the morning!
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Old 08-15-2007, 10:21 PM   #3
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It took me 1 week the first time (I was reading it out-loud to my sister and had to wait to read until we both had a chance) and the 2nd time it took me 5 days. I love that book!!!
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Old 12-06-2007, 03:44 PM   #4
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2 weeks...between work and everything else. i hated having to stop though.
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Old 01-26-2008, 05:24 PM   #5
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It took me about a day, it was soooo good, i could NOT put it down!
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Old 01-26-2008, 05:36 PM   #6
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Old 01-27-2008, 02:54 AM   #7
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I first read it a number of years ago. I think it took me about a week or so. I have read it a couple of times since then. It takes me longer to read it now. I don't know why, but when I re-read something, it takes me longer the second time around than the first time. Maybe because I know the ending and I don't have this great need to rush through the story to see how it ends.

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i'm even scared of Erik now...
Why are you scared of him?
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It took me half an hour, I think. I'm quite a fast reader!
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Old 04-04-2008, 04:04 PM   #9
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It took me half an hour, I think. I'm quite a fast reader!
Half an hour? For a book a couple hundred pages long? I'm rather incredulous.

It took me four hours. I got it from the library and didn't set it down for the rest of the day
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It took me half an hour, I think. I'm quite a fast reader!
I doubt it. You didn't read it in that time. Perhaps you might have skimmed it, but surely you didn't finish it that fast. My edition has ~270 pages. That's 9 pages a minute, exactly. That's a page every 6.66... seconds. There is no way you read all of that and comprehended it.


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The first time, I don't remember. The past few times, 2 or 3 weeks, because I've been reading it out loud.
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