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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #15 on: December 30, 2010, 11:13:28 AM »
Quote from: Callaway on December 29, 2010, 12:48:53 PM
Quote from: Scrap Kinison on December 29, 2010, 12:42:04 PM
Why is everyone muddling through Moby's Dick??  :zombiefuck:

It kept putting me to sleep when I read it.

So who was the dead fuck, you or Moby??  :laugh:
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #16 on: December 30, 2010, 11:59:08 AM »
War and Peace I read about half
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #17 on: May 10, 2016, 07:20:54 AM »
  For someone who learned how to read early (was able to read a bit by kindergarten), I really
  don't read well at all.  It's the attention span.  I don't have the patience to stay on the page all
  the way through.  I get bored.  I skip around to the "good parts."  Always have.  :-[
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #18 on: May 10, 2016, 12:48:51 PM »
My attention span sucks, too. It's not easy to finish some books. :-\
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #19 on: May 10, 2016, 02:18:54 PM »
Mein Kampf. Even more clumsy in English than it is in German.
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #20 on: May 10, 2016, 03:36:03 PM »
"Naked Lunch" and "The Hobbit"

YAAAWN

and "Mein Kampf" is indeed apparently a shitty read.
People love to think of Hitler as "evil, but very clever"

he wasn't. His book is stupid, and his "brilliant military strategy" Blitz consists of:
"Hey, what are our BIGGEST gunz?"
"Tanks, Mein Fuhrer."
"Okay, send ALL the tanks!!! :O"

^"genius"
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #21 on: May 10, 2016, 05:56:32 PM »
I couldn't make it through the second-to-last Harry Potter. I ditched out sometime while they were stuck in a tent in the forest, having angst at each other.
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #22 on: May 10, 2016, 09:30:40 PM »
Quote from: Pyraxis on May 10, 2016, 05:56:32 PM
I couldn't make it through the second-to-last Harry Potter. I ditched out sometime while they were stuck in a tent in the forest, having angst at each other.

Yeah, that was one loooooooooooong boring stretch.
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #23 on: May 11, 2016, 09:37:09 AM »
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.  It's not bad, it's just dense and every time I start reading it something happens in my life that throws it off track and I have to stop reading.  Even tried the audiobook version and the same thing happened.  I think that book is just cursed for me.
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #24 on: May 13, 2016, 04:55:14 AM »
Reading fiction for pleasure just doesn't happen when I am at uni or college. I don't enjoy it.
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #25 on: May 13, 2016, 04:59:31 AM »
  One of my work friends is a voracious reader, mostly of historical fiction.  She brings her Kindle
  to work every day, reads it at lunchtime, and listens to the books on earbuds during other times.  :thumbup:
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #26 on: May 13, 2016, 01:22:02 PM »
Quote from: renaeden on May 13, 2016, 04:55:14 AM
Reading fiction for pleasure just doesn't happen when I am at uni or college. I don't enjoy it.
Have only read fiction once since early twenties.
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #27 on: May 14, 2016, 02:57:51 AM »
Quote from: Jack on May 13, 2016, 01:22:02 PM
Quote from: renaeden on May 13, 2016, 04:55:14 AM
Reading fiction for pleasure just doesn't happen when I am at uni or college. I don't enjoy it.
Have only read fiction once since early twenties.
Do you remember what it was?
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #28 on: May 14, 2016, 05:28:01 AM »
Quote from: renaeden on May 14, 2016, 02:57:51 AM
Quote from: Jack on May 13, 2016, 01:22:02 PM
Quote from: renaeden on May 13, 2016, 04:55:14 AM
Reading fiction for pleasure just doesn't happen when I am at uni or college. I don't enjoy it.
Have only read fiction once since early twenties.
Do you remember what it was?
The Sky Alone My Partner
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Re: Books You Have Tried to
« Reply #29 on: May 14, 2016, 07:26:12 AM »
Quote from: Jack on May 14, 2016, 05:28:01 AM
Quote from: renaeden on May 14, 2016, 02:57:51 AM
Quote from: Jack on May 13, 2016, 01:22:02 PM
Quote from: renaeden on May 13, 2016, 04:55:14 AM
Reading fiction for pleasure just doesn't happen when I am at uni or college. I don't enjoy it.
Have only read fiction once since early twenties.
Do you remember what it was?
The Sky Alone My Partner
Oh! I read that too, while I was writing my uni thesis. Guess which I preferred to read? ;)
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