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Supernatural Manifestation
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 Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:48 am
What the longest time it has taken you to read a book? Why did it take you that long? For me I've been reading Stephen Kings IT since my Freshman year. I'm a Junior now. Normally it, at the very most, only takes me a couple of weeks to finish a book. But for some reason I always get side tracked while I'm reading IT. I'll become interested in another book and stop reading IT for a while. I've done it three times. The last time I only started reading it again because the movie was on ABC family. I'm getting close to finishing it.
Update January 29, 2008: I finally finmished reading it after 3 long years!
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:33 pm
It's hard to say how long I've taken. I've got a couple of books that I haven't even looked at (except to move out of the way) for more than 3 years. Many of them are TV tie-in novels of shows I enjoy that have become predictable. On the other hand, some of them sometimes end up on a shelf in my bathroom and do get finished a few pages at a time.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:35 pm
I both like really taking my time with books and have a tendency to take breaks in the middle of books and forget about then...
I've found books that I've started reading years ago but forgot about <.<;
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:46 pm
Rogue Specter I both like really taking my time with books and have a tendency to take breaks in the middle of books and forget about then... I've found books that I've started reading years ago but forgot about <.<;
I found a book I started reading in freshman year a few days ago, Magic Kingdom For Sale Sold by Terry Brooks. I can't for the life of me remember why I stopped reading it. It was good...
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Supernatural Manifestation
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Romantic Conversationalist
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:48 pm
The Fellowship of the Ring. I've been poking at it for a couple of years now. It's such a good story, but the writing style really bogs me down. redface
It's odd too, because I read The Hobbit without any real interruptions.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:08 pm
Fairgrass The Fellowship of the Ring. I've been poking at it for a couple of years now. It's such a good story, but the writing style really bogs me down. redface
It's odd too, because I read The Hobbit without any real interruptions.
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Supernatural Manifestation
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:33 am
I've been trying to read Eragon for the past four years. I've made it to page... let's see here... 56!
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:02 pm
Um... Two week? I think... I devour my books... I usually go for books that have some kind of strange title.
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:52 am
It also depends on what else is going on
school tends to slow down reading alot, this last quarter I had alot of stuff to work on so I really struggled to finish the book I was reading so I would have one less thing to have to carry with me on my trip...
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:17 pm
It took me a month to read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire because of family problems. For most other books that size it only takes me a week.
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:09 pm
Most books, if it doesn't take me a day or week to read, I end up putting aside for months: I'm kind of doing that right now with Kafka's the Metamorphoses. But thats one book I could pick up again a year from now and pick up exactly where I left off. If I did that with a plain fantasy/sci-fi book I'd have to start completely fresh.
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:32 pm
It took me about three quarters of a year to read the first Harry Potter book because at first I couldn't really get into the story but when I finally did I lost the book for a good six months. Then when I found it took me a while to get into it again.
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:27 pm
There are some books where you want to read it but somehow, it just takes so long to finish it. The plot is interesting and stuff but sometimes, I just can't get into the book, which is kind of frustrating.
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:16 pm
Jane Eyre took me a couple months to read. I've been poking at O Pioneers! all summer. I've been poking at the LotR trilogy (I've got the big omnibus edition) for about five years.
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:41 pm
When I first started the Wheel of Time series years ago it took me months to read EACH book. The most recent time I've read it it took me only a few to read the whole series (Except for New Dawn, Haven't read that one yet)
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