― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 02:24 (seventeen years ago) link
I, too, basically want to read everything ever written, but I'm afraid that I already have enough books at my house alone to last me past my natural life span. I keep hoping there is an afterlife with a fantastic library system.
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 03:12 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Redd Temple Player (TowHeaded O.G.) (Ken L), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 04:49 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Navek Rednam (Navek Rednam), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 04:52 (seventeen years ago) link
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― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 11 May 2006 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link
i'm not sure i count as having the vast majority of the books i read as 'going'.
― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hemoglobin Hummingbird (HemoHum), Friday, 19 May 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Have been a dedicated one-book-at-a-time guy for many years -- attempts to make it "two at a time, one fiction and one non-fiction" have always proven unsatisfying -- but has anybody made the transition from one-up to several-going? I'm debating giving it a try in the New Year.
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 1 January 2017 13:59 (seven years ago) link
For me at least, there's an advantage to one-book-at-a-time which is that books have a certain momentum curve. However much I like a book, there always comes a point where I'm looking beyond it to something else, and it's better if I can finish it while I'm still excited about it. If I pick up a second book, chances are higher that the first one won't get finished.
― jmm, Sunday, 1 January 2017 14:32 (seven years ago) link
One for the bus, one for the couch/breakfast table, one for the nightstand
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 1 January 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link
There is a discussion of this in an Eric Rohmer film, L'amour, l'après-midi, iirc.
― The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 January 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link
He reads many books, but can only take one on the train.
― The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 January 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link
What would he have done with an ebook reader?
― The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 January 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
I suffer from the same problem as Joan and jmm. lately I've been able to pull it off with one book + one ebook. shouldn't work but somehow it does.
― flopson, Sunday, 1 January 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
i need to have fallback books because i have a tendency to go for stuff that is, for me, pretty heavy reading. like i was reading caro's lbj bio for probably years, and i just couldn't make that the only book i read during that period. if i'm not up for reading something like that, what am i going to do, not read?
but i'm ok with not finishing books. one day i'll finish "the master and margarita".
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Sunday, 1 January 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link
I will usually read one book of poetry alongside one book of prose and then non-fiction articles..
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 1 January 2017 22:38 (seven years ago) link
always 2-3 at a time
― a but (brimstead), Sunday, 1 January 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link
i am reading all of the books, rn
― j., Monday, 2 January 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKlJVB5rhUA
What are you reading now?What've you got?
― The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 January 2017 00:24 (seven years ago) link
Two at once is my preferred method, but only one can be fiction.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 2 January 2017 00:39 (seven years ago) link
I can't read two books at once because I always end up having a minor nervous breakdown about how to pack my bag before leaving the house.
If I'm reading something really hard, I used to pack magazines or comics as backup, but now I just read something off my biliously long Instapaper queue instead.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 2 January 2017 01:14 (seven years ago) link
Usually one book at a time. When much younger would read multiple books at once, until at one point i was reading a book and its sequel simultaneously, which made me change my ways
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Monday, 2 January 2017 10:41 (seven years ago) link
I am definitely a one fiction book and one non-fiction book (or one graphic novel) at the same time kind of reader. I tend to keep a novel in my bag, and the non-fic for home reading (for some reason I have never been able to read in bed very happily).
― Darcy Sarto (Ward Fowler), Monday, 2 January 2017 12:37 (seven years ago) link
Ha, thought I was reading ebook sample of book about Alfred Hitchcock and gradually got an uneasy feeling. "He was born into a world of darkness, obscurity and magic; led a strangely pure and obsessive life, lacking parents, lovers and friends; quarreled bitterly with great men who crossed his path; veered at least once to the brink of madness; cloaked his work in secrecy; and yet discovered more of the essential core of human knowledge than anyone before or since." It turned out I had accidentally clicked on Isaac Newton bio by James Gleick. Took me quite a while to get my balance.
― The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 04:52 (seven years ago) link