reading books

[HybridSquirrel]

my gf just read a 354 page book on a friday night in about 3 hours....i take a week to read a book that long.


does anyone else power read like that? or am i retarded?

 

[Matthiasa]

No.
Which is why most of the books for my courses are basically useless to me.

 

[guyver01]

my gf just read a 354 page book on a friday night in about 3 hours....i take a week to read a book that long.

does anyone else power read like that? or am i retarded?

i do.

i read a nearly 400 page book last week in about 5 hours.

books i enjoy and can get into.. i dont want to put down, and can breeze through them.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

i do.

i read a nearly 400 page book last week in about 5 hours.

books i enjoy and can get into.. i dont want to put down, and can breeze through them.

ahh, thats true. a book that is well written i could probably read that fast but i just dont have motivation to sit down and read for 3 hours.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

seems to represent the night very well

 

[PingSpike]

My wife tears through them about that fast. While I don't think it would take me whole week if I was into it, I certainly wouldn't be doing it in the single digit hours most likely.

If she sits over my shoulder while we both read something, I'd say she completes it twice as fast as I do. That said, she doesn't seem to remember the details after the fact as well as I do.

I think its because if I don't 100% get a paragraph I end up rereading it combined with the fact I was never that fast to begin with.

 

[fatpat268]

I can definitely read fast, but I get sidetracked often, forcing me to reread paragraphs and pages.

And even then, I couldn't read an entire book in one sitting. Anything more than 2 hours straight of reading gives me a headache.

 

[Albatross]

I tried reading the phone book once but i just couldn't :too many characters.

 

[shortylickens]

I used to read fast. When they brought around that Scholastic Books flyer in school I ordered a dozen of them and had every single one finished by the end of the semester.

Now I average 1 every two years.
WTF?

 

[IronWing]

I used to read fast. When they brought around that Scholastic Books flyer in school I ordered a dozen of them and had every single one finished by the end of the semester.

Now I average 1 every two years.
WTF?

How's your eyesight? I found I was reading less and less and it occurred to me that I needed reading glasses. After I got bifocals I started reading a lot more.

 

[CycloWizard]

How's your eyesight? I found I was reading less and less and it occurred to me that I needed reading glasses. After I got bifocals I started reading a lot more.

Everyone over the age of 40 should have them. I'm getting some soon at 30 just to decrease eye strain from reading a lot. This happens in all people and primates, but it's so gradual that most people don't realize how bad their near vision is until they can't make out the print anymore.

 

[TheVrolok]

When reading for pleasure absolutely. I read quite a bit when I was younger. Unfortunately, I read for pleasure a lot less frequently now.

 

[thedarkwolf]

I'm fairly slow. I have a job sitting on my butt and spend a good bit of time reading and the most I've done in an 8 hour shift is around 250 pages. I'm not reading the whole time though. I usually do around 100 pages a night if I'm into the book. The faster I read the sooner I have to find a new book to start which is the part I hate.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I recall reading Stephen King's Insomnia in a day, and it's more than 700 pages long I think. Haven't read anything that fast recently though. Mostly it's because I've taken to reading in short spurts rather than hours-long sessions.

 

[DingDingDao]

Depends on what I'm reading. If it's something for pleasure (novel or something like that) I can blaze through it pretty quickly. Denser reading like scientific journals or textbooks takes me much longer to get through.

 

[shortylickens]

How's your eyesight? I found I was reading less and less and it occurred to me that I needed reading glasses. After I got bifocals I started reading a lot more.

I've been using glasses since I was 8.

 

[ManyBeers]

my gf just read a 354 page book on a friday night in about 3 hours....i take a week to read a book that long.


does anyone else power read like that? or am i retarded?

She may not read every word. I know when I am reading I will skip passages that I can tell will not be important to the story. An example would be describing the topography of a scene or perhaps the decor of a room. In my experience it is not necessary to read every word printed (fiction especially).

 

[Moonbeam]

I remember that I had a hard time figuring out a b from a d and a p from q and puzzling over the mystery of why a t wasn't as tall as an l. I flunked the 2nd grade and learned to read in the fourth grade summer when I discovered Tarzan in the library and my folks stopped reading the funnies to me. I discovered at last that there were books that were worth reading.

Even now folk will start laughing at a comic strip before I can find the first bubble.

I got a ticket for casting off a pier standing in front of a huge sign that said NO CASTING OFF PIER because I never saw it, or more exactly, that the letters never made any works because I don't see words unless I look at them with an intention to figure out what they say. It's great driving down the freeway cause I never hear any of the ads go off in my head from all the signs, but I often miss my turn.

Now I can read at a fair speed if I want, but I almost never do. I don't see words but I hear them. To me language is sound and it's beauty is in hearing the words. So when I read a book that was written by somebody with linguistic talent, I read aloud in my head, sounding out all the words, hearing them spoken out. With an interesting book I can and do read all day.

 

[Locut0s]

I remember that I had a hard time figuring out a b from a d and a p from q and puzzling over the mystery of why a t wasn't as tall as an l. I flunked the 2nd grade and learned to read in the fourth grade summer when I discovered Tarzan in the library and my folks stopped reading the funnies to me. I discovered at last that there were books that were worth reading.

Even now folk will start laughing at a comic strip before I can find the first bubble.

I got a ticket for casting off a pier standing in front of a huge sign that said NO CASTING OFF PIER because I never saw it, or more exactly, that the letters never made any works because I don't see words unless I look at them with an intention to figure out what they say. It's great driving down the freeway cause I never hear any of the ads go off in my head from all the signs, but I often miss my turn.

Now I can read at a fair speed if I want, but I almost never do. I don't see words but I hear them. To me language is sound and it's beauty is in hearing the words. So when I read a book that was written by somebody with linguistic talent, I read aloud in my head, sounding out all the words, hearing them spoken out. With an interesting book I can and do read all day.

Dyslexia or however you spell it.

 

[insect9]

I remember when I could read a book a day. Now, with work and school both full time, I only get to read text books. :'(

 

[HybridSquirrel]

She may not read every word. I know when I am reading I will skip passages that I can tell will not be important to the story. An example would be describing the topography of a scene or perhaps the decor of a room. In my experience it is not necessary to read every word printed (fiction especially).

thats the thing, it wasn't for an assignment. It was some book series she's been reading about relationships and gang members/convicts. Idk why

 

[kranky]

If I'm reading a novel, I can do about 100 pages an hour because I tend to speed through parts I find not very interesting. A whole page describing the scenery? Skim.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I once read the entire Hornblower series (11 books) in a weekend.

 

[PottedMeat]

If the book has a 'conversational' flow to it I can read pretty quick. Something like 'Heart of Darkness' ( I picked it up because of Apocalypse Now ) took me a week to get through. I don't think I've ever had that kind of trouble with a book before. I assume it's because Conrad wrote with english as a second language.

 

[Crusty]

I just started I, Robot the other night, took me about 45 minutes to get through the first 2 stories. Can't wait to finish it now... hope the rest of his books are just as good!