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[garran]

Mary Gentle's Ash: A Secret History is an excellent book; so is Bridge of Birds, by Barry Hughart. I have finished each of these in the past few days, and I am deeply happy. I feel wonderful.

How do people not read?

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[haibane-rachan.livejournal.com]

A "mass market paperback" would still take me a week, if I was reading every day. My "give a crap" span is for shit. I rarely spend more than a few hours (or even a couple hours) reading and I read really slow when I'm deeply involved in a novel so.. yeah.. but you've heard this rant before, I'm sure.

I also don't even know what "trade paperback" means, though I've heard it used many, many times.

Additionally, I have never read a book longer than .. 500 pages? Probably not even that long. I have no idea, but the idea of a 1100 page book frightens me. What could stay interesting for that long? That would also take me several months to finish. Hell, Harry Potter.. 4? one of them.. took me several months to finish, due to the way I sporadically read.

[garran.livejournal.com]

I also don't even know what "trade paperback" means, though I've heard it used many, many times.

I can help you there, having learned this pretty recently in the scheme of things myself. A 'trade paperback' is a paperback with the dimensions of a hardcover (thus, 'taller and wider').


-Garran

[masamage.livejournal.com]

I read really slow when I'm deeply involved in a novel

Me, too; especially if it has beautiful prose.

Mainly my problem, though, is, yeah, that I'm working on other stuff too much. I intend to make time for it this month, though.