I am asking this to share with the forum members of how many books they can read in a month(by book I mean 500 pages of so ) so.. Share your views!
Currently I am reading like 3-4 books a month that is like 4 hours a day abit more or less.
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I am asking this to share with the forum members of how many books they can read in a month(by book I mean 500 pages of so ) so.. Share your views!
Currently I am reading like 3-4 books a month that is like 4 hours a day abit more or less.
wow! Are you retired? I don`t own a TV set and I cannot get through that many books a month. I assume you have a pretty good reading speed. I am a plodder.
For me it depends on what it is that I'm reading. I normally read two to three "real" books. For me this means authors with more literary merit. Normally it includes at least one thing by Shakespeare. I also read one or two "fluff" books a week, so on average six to eight a month. These include things mostly general fiction type books by authors like Dan Brown and others.
I try to read at least one good history book a month. I love history. I have been trying to finish something with merit each month by Hemingway, Faulkner, etc
Then I re-read TLOTR or 1984 or Animal Farm or The Stand. The Lord of The Rings/Hobbit are my all time favorite books and I read and re-read them all the time. Then there is the 'guilty' reading I do, Nora Roberts, Dan Brown, Stephen King....I just don't have the time to read as much as I use to or as much as I'd like. I usually finish 4 books a month.
This kinda makes me feel ashamed... I can't find the time to read more than 1 or 2 books/month. Just have too much else to do; school, watching movies, fishing, playing guitar etc.
Why would you feel guilty to read Stephen King? :( It is so strange how so many people despise him. (I'm not talking about you here, it's a generality). I know I'm biased on this question because I love the man very deeply and I have great respect for him and his writing. He is my favorite author and I'm not ashamed to say it. To me, he has a real gift in story-telling, and his characters are so greatly depicted, and his stories original and captivating, often sad. He describes friendships and childhood so well. There is this special atmosphere in his books, special to me. I have always felt at home with him. :) I wish I could give him a hug and say thank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Granny5
I'm not ashamed that I enjoy some of Kings work, I just feel like there's better work that I should read. But, I love the Stand. I think it should be required reading. I also like his early work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sweets America
I really don't read wso i say 0
but if i tried i could probably read 2
I see. It is just that I wonder sometimes about 'the better books that we should read'. Some authors are praised and some are despised, but it should really be a matter of personal preference rather than a matter of the authors that have to be read. But I know that was not what you meant. :) I have read 33 books by King and I never got bored. I got wonderful feelings. I love Hearts in Atlantis. I love books in which he talks about his life and writings too, that is quite funny. I like his old books and his new ones, but I've had no time to read lately. :( And I really would like to read his series called The Dark Tower, I've only read 3 books and a half of it, but that was long ago so I would need to start again from the beginning. What I love also in his books is that when reading a book, you meet characters that you had already met in another book, and those are such pleasant surprises, and you understand better what happened in the other book you read before. It's all linked, and that is wonderful. Anyway, I'm off topic so I should stop.:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Granny5
I can read up to 8 books a month but at the moment i'm going through a slacked stage and i'm lazily getting through two.
Depends. If I read several book from the same author I usually read em pretty quick. Right now I'm reading Raymond Chandler.
Last year I read a total of 76 books, so that's 6,3 books a month. So far this year I've read 61 books, so about 6 books a month so far this year as well. :D
I've never counted, I read too much though, yes there is such a thing, it's most of what I do when I am not in school.
Right now (since I'm taking some college classes and am very busy) I'm reading about one book a month. Usually I can read about two or three books a month. I'm looking forward to the semester ending!
Lol, Retired? I am 23 years old! It's just i work in a facility really far from the city. It's like a place of it's own its like 4 hours from modern life lol. But anywho, yeah I get really bored especially when work finishes so I don't have anything except reading and I am loving it!Quote:
Originally Posted by ballb
And on the Stephen King thing, I only started reading him(since we don't really have translations for his books until recently) I am reading The Running Man and its really good. I love how he predicts stuff in the future like Free V (for TV) lol its funny in a way. I read Dan Brown but I think he over describe stuff in his work especially in Angels and Demons. Both are good though.
Hmm, probably two books a month. That's because I have a whole lot to do so I don't really have much time in reading. LitNet added. :D
Sadly, I am usually unable to read more than two 500+ page novels in a month, which is why I take my selection of which books to read way too seriously.
I used to really be able to go at it. I could read up to 4/5 books a month. For me that was a lot with work and other events in life. Now I am lucky if I can read 2. I don't know what it has been lately. It is like I don't have energy (for lack of a better word) to read so many books at a time. This is coming from a person that read all 1024 pages of Gone With The Wind in only 5 days when she was 12!!!! Now I am lucky if I read half of that in a month!
Don't you miss those days when you were young and full of life? Now it is just the time to wait for the peacful grave after a long exhusting life in the elderly's home where you are so weak that the only reason that you can't read a book is that you can't hold the book because it is too heavy at your age. Sad, its very sad. But you just have to live the few days left in your life weeping the past and fearing the uknown near death.Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyWentworth
Lol, j/k. But this could be an idea for a novel don't you say?
A lot.
In good times, my weekly average circles around 5-6; in slightly worse times, around 3, and times are never truly that bad that I do not get through at least a book or two each week; so I end up reading anything from 10 to 30 books per month. Of course, this oscillates, and the number is rarely at any of the extremes, but usually somewhere in-between.
I read pretty much everywhere; I get to travel very often and thus get to spend a lot of time in trains; I read during my lectures at school instead of focusing on school work; I read multiple books at once. Over the course of time, reading has become my routine which I simply fit into my day.
My main interests circle around philosophy, politics/history, comparative (European) literature, and random things from other fields; so I often end up reading a funny mix of completely diverse things. :)
on my 207th book this year. Though that includes shorter novels and poetry and short story anthologies.
I don't have a lot of time because I have so much work to do for school. And then I am happy if I read a book or two in a month. And even these books are usually just books for homereading, so again for school. :(
I'm quite miserable because of that and I try to read more between school holidays. In the summer I usually read two or three books per a week.
I read probably 8 books a month. But I pace them out: one huge one (the classic type), two modern award-winning ones, two classic plays or poetry (or I substitute them with easy classics that are not so demanding), two entertaining ones, and one reference (about a subject). I read pieces everyday but those don't count. I'm a lit major, so I read going to sleep, read waking up, read in class, read at home. That is my rate when I go to school. But if it is holiday or break then the amount shoots up to 10, 12, sometimes 13 books a month. I have always been reading that now it doesn't take me too long to read anymore. I also read books in other languages as well.
There are two months in a year (one in summer, one in winter) where I don't read any new book, but re-read in each month eight books (of my choice) that I had already read from the last months. This is how I remember everything I read that I think is important.
I don't count short stories or just sonnets or poems because I read those everyday. Oh, the life of being a Lit student, I wish it never ends!
:eek: Wow zion! How do you do that? That's incredible.
I usually read around 3 or 4 a month during school. Though that goes down to about one during my drama season. Your reading time goes down a bit when you get to school at seven in the morning and don't leave till nine at night.
During the summer, I can usually read seven or eight a month.
I had a thread similar to this on a science forum I frequent. After reading the responses it got I felt kind of ashamed(the one guy said that the most he's ever read was 3 400 page books in a day, and most of them said that they read too fast to say the words to themselves in their head), but after reading these responses I have the opposite feeling. If I'm reading a philosophy book or some book on a particular branch of science that I'm not very well-versed in, it can take me up to a week to finish, and at least 4-5 days. However, for a fantasy, psychology, or mystery book, or for some not-so-deep sci-fi book of the length specified in the OP, it usually takes me a day if I actually take time out to read it, and at the most 3 if I read between doing things. I take breaks from reading when I have money to go chill though, so I'd say I usually read 6 or 7 books in a month, unless it's one of the months when I read nothing but philosophy(this happens to me every so often when I feel like an idiot for a short period of time).
I had really strict-about-literature parents when I was a kid. They used to schedule my readings and the books get more and more difficult every month. So now I'm used to it. Plus, it doesn't help that my lit professor is very demanding and we have a lot to read as well. I thought about reading a bit slower, but just can't. (then again I have those two reviewing months so I won't forget everything I read)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gadget Girl
It also helps I'm a full-time student. :) I'm so dreadfully afraid of when I'll have to work and be too tired to read.
3 or 4, but I really don't remember when did I last time read something shorter then 400 pages. Plus university...
Before university, about 15 per month. I was eating them!
:eek: My gosh, Baz, good thing binge reading is not an eating disorder :D .Quote:
Originally Posted by bazarov
Now my natural competitveness is kicking in (*I must read 16 books a month!* :p ).
Yes. Well, some books still have smashed potatoes or ketchup on covers :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dori
I usually check out 2 books from my local library every one day or two, so It's around one or two a day. Usually I don't have time to read so I just get around 20 to 25 books a month. :( I wish I had more time to read.
Sometimes I do check out books that actually take me a whole week but my library has very few Shakespeare and I don't think they actually like Nietzsche. :(
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Originally Posted by bazarov
When i was at university i couldn't read 1 book a month (you know me being a civil engineer..all these concrete and steel reading took up all my energy :lol: )
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Originally Posted by Bakiryu
I am speechless.. let me say how much i admire what you just said :thumbs_up
I can read about 30 - 40 a month.:lol:
:lol: :lol: Ok, it's like an auction..who has 50? Can i see 50? :lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by pussnboots
When I was still in comprehensive school, I used to read two books every day. Nowadays I don't have that much time any more.
During the school year I sometimes read only a couple of books per month, but on summer when I have a holiday I usually read about 20 books per month, sometimes even more. You know, those long days on summer cottage when you don't have much else to do than sunbathe and read... My friend once sent me a text message:
"Anna, I had to text you 'cause I'm worried. Henna told me you've read THREE books in one day. I'm afraid your head will explode or something."
Depends on how many pages are inside the book. :)
But I can get through a 300 page book in one day, because I have nothing better to do half the time.
^_^
Hey, I will also became civil engineer :D Of course, then you realize why I must postpone some books for holidays :(Quote:
Originally Posted by manolia
:blush: :blush: :blush: Thank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by manolia
It's all well until you hit a wall while walking and reading. Or almost get run-over. Again.
I am ashamed :bawling: all you guys leave me ambitious!!!!!
I used to read two books a week but I have been forced to slowdown and my taste in books has changed so now I read heavier stuff and read about one every week or two. I have never really understood why reading romance novels and mysteries and such isn't given the credit that reading "classics" gets. Reading is reading isn't it? I classify it heavy or light reading but I still consider that both take time, one just requires more careful study than the other and both are ten times better than watching t.v.
Answer: 4 or 5 books a month