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Re: Books that take a long time to read. Tashmere Send a noteboard - 03/08/2010 11:31:10 PM
So at the current rate I'm flying through LA COMMUNAUTÉ DE L'ANNEAU (roughly a page every ten minutes), I expect to blast through the remaining 652 pages in a little over 108 hours. Instead of focusing on that particular misery, a survey of sorts:

1) what's the longest time you've spent reading a book?
2) do you ever get put off by length?
3) what about complexity?
4) how long is too long?
5) Is there any hope of me making it through Tom Bombadil in this thing?

Y'all have a great day now, y'hear.


1. I don't always have a lot of time to read. Sometimes it is just what I read before I go to bed and when I get up and maybe what I can read on my lunch. Les Miserables probably took about a month.

2. Length itself has not put me off for a long time.

3. I don't mind having to work a bit to get something. I actually like books where I have to google history or other information. I don't mind having to have an unabridged dictionary next to me. But if it is too technical and really is over my head and I am not getting any enjoyment then I might give up.

4. It is too long when it gets boring and doesn't get better. It is too long if it is unrelentingly depressing.

5. Tom Bombadil is a deal breaker. He was hard enough to take in English. I suspect he would be insufferable in French.

You have a great day too.
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Books that take a long time to read. Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 08:21:42 AM 1290 Views
I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect... Legolas - 03/08/2010 08:37:21 AM 970 Views
It's all looking up vocabulary. It should pick up. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 06:06:03 PM 384 Views
What's your strategy for that? Legolas - 03/08/2010 06:23:55 PM 895 Views
The latter, but curiosity keeps winning out. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 10:55:50 PM 389 Views
Re: I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect... DomA - 04/08/2010 11:52:01 AM 989 Views
Since I chose the same book to learn Spanish, some reasons. Camilla - 04/08/2010 12:20:22 PM 852 Views
Re: Since I chose the same book to learn Spanish, some reasons. DomA - 04/08/2010 03:04:12 PM 1146 Views
Exactly this. Though I don't know it nearly by heart. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/08/2010 06:56:34 AM 377 Views
Re: Exactly this. Though I don't know it nearly by heart. Camilla - 06/08/2010 08:23:17 AM 767 Views
Precisely. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/08/2010 05:42:34 AM 375 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Camilla - 03/08/2010 08:58:55 AM 1019 Views
monobiblic? unilibric? lyringlas - 03/08/2010 05:18:35 PM 850 Views
Re: monobiblic? unilibric? Camilla - 03/08/2010 05:20:04 PM 890 Views
the baroque series by neal stephenson ad war and peace Foxhead - 03/08/2010 09:56:43 AM 837 Views
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon snoopcester - 03/08/2010 10:27:58 AM 844 Views
Yeah, I read the abridged version for one of my classes. Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 06:07:43 PM 844 Views
*shudders* Tom - 03/08/2010 07:11:34 PM 833 Views
Stephen Hunt's The Court of the Air was a recent one. Kallichore - 03/08/2010 10:37:26 AM 900 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Stephen - 03/08/2010 03:45:20 PM 812 Views
I'm having the hardest time trudging through The Idiot LadyLorraine - 03/08/2010 04:22:29 PM 875 Views
Me love you long time. Rebekah - 03/08/2010 05:24:43 PM 844 Views
The unabridged Zohar in 23 volumes probably ranks up there. Tom - 03/08/2010 07:15:43 PM 1137 Views
I'm reading The Lord of the Rings in French. Slowly. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/08/2010 10:57:04 PM 350 Views
Why? Tom - 04/08/2010 02:14:44 PM 842 Views
Camilla's post above pretty much encapsulates it; I want to practice my French with something I know *NM* Ghavrel - 06/08/2010 06:55:02 AM 388 Views
The Bible, hands down. Vodalus - 03/08/2010 07:22:37 PM 1019 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. Tashmere - 03/08/2010 11:31:10 PM 897 Views
for fiction... damookster - 04/08/2010 01:50:38 AM 1107 Views
Not counting stuff like the Bible, Gardens of the Moon DREWRULESWOT! - 04/08/2010 06:39:12 AM 950 Views
The Sound and the Fury random thoughts - 04/08/2010 02:51:40 PM 768 Views
That is not at all surprising. Rebekah - 04/08/2010 02:52:37 PM 824 Views
I love the prose but I can't follow the story random thoughts - 06/08/2010 02:41:10 PM 792 Views
that just means i don't have time to read.... temeraire - 05/08/2010 04:30:42 PM 802 Views
The Book of the New Sun took me 3 months to read. Zach - 05/08/2010 06:35:08 PM 1054 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. j-whitt987 - 06/08/2010 02:07:59 AM 851 Views
Re: Books that take a long time to read. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 12/08/2010 02:29:12 PM 967 Views
Never understood being put off by length Sandwich - 12/08/2010 07:33:26 PM 977 Views
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