How many books you can read in a month?

[Simao]

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.

[ballb]

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.

[applepie]

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.

[Granny5]

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.

[thegreenthing]

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.

[Sweets America]

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.

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.

[Granny5]

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.

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.

[raptorfan]

I really don't read wso i say 0
but if i tried i could probably read 2

[Sweets America]

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.

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.

[Niamh]

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.

[Nico87]

Depends. If I read several book from the same author I usually read em pretty quick. Right now I'm reading Raymond Chandler.

[thelastmelon]

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.

[mS_?]

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.

[Beverly S]

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!

[Simao]

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.

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!
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.