How many people actually read books, because I know people that have never read a book (aside from being made to in school) in their lives!
2006-12-09 11:12:45 · 38 answers · asked by Emma 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Do magazines count?
2006-12-09 11:15:56 · answer #1 · answered by wrongjon 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I read four of five at a time, I love books, God the smell of a new book! I like the way you can you know, when you read a book at the end of it you miss the character, and the ones you just cannot put down until the end, and the way you can go back to bits and that which you can't do on a television. And if you read an old classic you end up talking posh! Madness. In answer to your question I would say I have read maybe one hundred and fifty - two hundred? I don't have a tv by the way, which probably has a big impact on how much I read!
2006-12-09 11:33:16 · answer #2 · answered by floppity 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This might make me sound really bizarre, but I keep a list of books I read & the dates I finish them in a notebook.
Here's everything so far since January 1, 2006:
Joseph Campbell, Oriental Mythology (1/2/06)
Joseph Campbell, Occidental Mythology (1/18/06)
Jon Arnasson, Icelandic Folk Tales (3/22/06)
Ellis Peters, Brother Haluin's Confession (4/13/06)
John Milton, Paradise Lost (6/12/06)
Joseph Campbell, The Hero With A Thousand Faces (6/17/06)
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (6/22/06)
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian (7/14/06)
J. Sheridan LeFanu, Green Tea & Other Ghost Stories (7/27/06)
Dante, Paradiso (8/14/06)
Kristen Britain, Green Rider (8/19/06)
Paul Monette, Sanctuary (8/23/06)
Lloyd Alexander, The Iron Ring (8/30/06)
Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (9/20/06)
Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters (10/17/06)
Isabel Allende, Zorro (10/25/06)
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix (11/8/06)
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince (11/12/06)
Manly Wade Wellman, ,The Voice of the Mountain (11/12/06)
Dante, Inferno (11/23/06)
2006-12-09 11:27:02 · answer #3 · answered by snowbaal 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't keep an accurate record, but somewhere between 50 and 75 at a guess. When I'm in the mood I read 2 to 3 books a week and then I'll go a month without reading anything.
2006-12-09 12:28:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I tend to read about 1 a week so I must have managed about 50 this year. I try and re-read books I already own to keep the cost down!
I simply can't sit on a train or plane without having something to read and since I spent 3 hours a day on trains thats a lot of books!
2006-12-10 21:00:14 · answer #5 · answered by Amy P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I keep track. So far this year I've read 74 - I read 76 last year. As for the person who said people who read 80 books/year are lying - that's not fair. I have an hour commute on the train to and from work everyday so I read a lot. Not everyone flops in front of the TV all night.
2006-12-10 11:49:22 · answer #6 · answered by deebee 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Roughly 60 - 70. I try to read a book a week but sometimes I read 2 or 3 books at the same time.
2006-12-10 23:41:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry but I just don't believe those people who claim to have read 80, 100, 250 books, etc. It's okay, don't be shy, we're all uncultured little tv buffs nowadays so it doesn't matter! Im gonna be honest...I've read about 8 books this year... 2 or 3 of which i was made to read in school, the rest in the holidays...sorry I'm just not a big reader. My excuse is that I have to study a lot and I'm sticking to it!
2006-12-10 00:46:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Probably about 10-20 this year, including fiction and non-fiction.
Towards the end of school I would only read books when forced to, but I got back into it again a few years later. Still, I'd like to read more than I do.
2006-12-09 11:25:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite a few! 1st to die by James Patterson, Man and Boy, One for my Baby, Man and Wife (all by Tony Parsons), The Acid House by Irvine Welsh (fantastic, better than the film!) and at the moment I'm reading 4 Stephen King novels in one book. They are: Rage, The Long Walk, Road Work and The Running Man. (Yes, the film that starred Arnold Swarzenegger. I had no clue it was a Stephen King book!)
2006-12-09 11:29:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I find once I start reading a book it's really hard to put down. I do try an read when I can but find it takes over as my imagination works overtime. I've probably read about 10.
2006-12-09 11:35:46 · answer #11 · answered by itgirl23 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋