80 to 100, I'd say.
How many TV shows do you regularly watch per week?
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80 to 100, I'd say.
How many TV shows do you regularly watch per week?
Only one (excluding newscasts), although my wife watches a few, so I end up being exposed to them. No situation comedies, though, since the 1970s.
Same question.
None, though sometimes I watch episodes of Question Time or Kitchen Nightmares on YouTube or I'll watch some competitive video game streams when I eat meals, so probably thirty+ minutes a day on that.
How many minutes do you tend to spend searching for something before giving up?
Oh yes, I watch old Monty Python shows on Youtube. I didn't think that counted.
The only thing I lose regularly are my glasses. If I can't find them in 10 minutes or so, I'll use my spare pair. But I hate those, so I never really give up.
How many times have you been in love?
Zero times.
Same question.
I don't think more than twice, although it almost always felt like it at the time.
How many sports teams have you ever played on?
I was on the relay team for track and field when I was in elementary school and I was on the swim team around the same time. More recently (a few years ago now) I joined a recreational adult soccer league with my then girlfriend and we sucked - I was the worst guy on the team and she was the worst girl - but it was still fun; I scored a goal with my head and had a few assists.
How many of the books you read, as a percentage, are strictly fictional?
It really varies over time. I've spent years and years at a time reading 100% non-fiction, and a few years here and there reading only fiction. This year, it's been around 60% non-fiction books so far, but they've been really long books, so it would be more if you went by pages. Lately I've been missing fiction though, and thinking about rereading a lot of the classics I read when I was younger. But I'll be in non-fiction for a while longer.
Same question.
More than ninety percent.
How many times a year do you read something you find really, truly horrible?
90% fiction or 90% nonfiction?
What do you mean? Information I find really troubling? Or a book about something upsetting? Or a horribly written book?
90% fiction, and yeah, just a badly written book... I know you finish it. It how often do you put it down and think "this is just trash"?
Almost never--it hasn't happened in a long time in any case. Because I finish all my books, I'm a bit fussy about what I start. I have a low threshold for bad writing.
What percentage of books did you start but not finish last calendar year (and why)?
Maybe five or six books, which makes it about seven or eight percent, I consider myself a book finisher though I'm not as rigid about it as you are.
I put down Europe a History by Norman Davies after three hundred pages for being too dense and because I felt I wasn't retaining much, I do plan to finish it however. I shelved Mein Kampf because I only started it out of interest and wasn't really committed to reading it, though again, I do plan to eventually. I only read the parts of Bloom's book on Shakespeare which pertained to the Shakespeare I had actually read and ditto for Bloom's The Western Canon.
Same question.
Unknown. I buy books constantly, almost compulsively. I have some I have never read. At present, there are six partially finished books on the table beside my chair and one I haven't even begun.
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