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I usually get obsessed with a book, and can't put it down, and finish within a day or two, or sometimes I will procrastinate, and take a few weeks/a month. Rarely a happy medium...
I usually get obsessed with a book, and can't put it down, and finish within a day or two, or sometimes I will procrastinate, and take a few weeks/a month. Rarely a happy medium...
I'm the same way -- I can blow through a book in a day (or even two in a day), or take forever to finish it. Lately, though, while I've been buying books at my usual rate, I haven't been reading them -- we moved two months ago and getting the house in shape (and dealing with a sick dog) and listing books and DVDs I'll never read or watch again on Amazon (then mailing them out) has been taking up a lot of my time. At night, I just can't settle my mine enough to read, so I just watch TV.
I usually get obsessed with a book, and can't put it down, and finish within a day or two, or sometimes I will procrastinate, and take a few weeks/a month. Rarely a happy medium...
I'm the same.
I have been known to read a book in a couple of hours or to leave one for months and go back to it . If I don't want to keep turning the pages though , it's usually a bad sign and I have finally taught myself that unless I enjoy it the book has to go ...
It has taken me years but now I can be quite savage . I used to feel I had to read through everything I started and then realised life was too shorts. I think I used to see it as a challenge, now it's bye-bye unless it keeps my interest going. I tried to read "Ulysses" by Joyce over and over again , feeling like a failure for hating that miserable book but now it's out of my house and someone else can "enjoy" it !
Usually a book takes me 4 or 5 hours unless I am utterly entranced by it. If I don't have to do anything else of course .
Depends how much time I have to read and how long the book is. I read books that are only 300-some pages and some that exceed 900. Sometimes, I only have time to read for 20 mins before bed, other times I have all day. On average, it usually takes about a few days to a week - the all time fastest was in one day - longest was probably a few months.
I have books that I choose for myself and then books I have to read for a book discussion group that were chosen by the group. If I don't finish the books I chose for myself in three or less days, I'll probably abandon them. The book group books I sometimes force myself to read and only handle a few pages at a time because there are points in them I want to research and refute and that's something I feel I have to do immediately and not wait until I finish the book.
I read a couple of books per week average, except if I have no time because of college or if I have a book "not-so-good" and I read other texts between
I am like that, too, either I read it within a couple of days, or else it takes forever . If a book doesn't grip me in the beginning, sometimes I never finish it at all.
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It depends on the book! The author's style, the type of story, and of course if I am very busy or not... There's no rule for me, it can take me a couple of days (if I just love the book and have nothing else to do!), or take several weeks...
I think the fastest I've ever read a single book was when I got my copy of the seventh volume in the Harry Potter series. Had my son take me to Borders 9 am on the day it came out and I was finished reading it before dinner! But, as someone else said, it depends largely on the book - whether, like the HP, I've been waiting for it; whether it captures my attention right away; and if it's something I'm reading because I want to or because someone told me I should. I've read some books that I just zip right through and some that I'll spend a week or longer reading.
I usually finish in two days. I read mostly paperbacks with about 400 pages.
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. If a book doesn't grip me in the beginning, sometimes I never finish it at all.
