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) 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.
Books that take a long time to read.
- 03/08/2010 08:21:42 AM
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I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect... 
- 03/08/2010 08:37:21 AM
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- 03/08/2010 08:37:21 AM
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It's all looking up vocabulary. It should pick up. *NM*
- 03/08/2010 06:06:03 PM
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Re: I'm gonna hope that was an exaggeration for comic effect...
- 04/08/2010 11:52:01 AM
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- 04/08/2010 11:52:01 AM
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Since I chose the same book to learn Spanish, some reasons.
- 04/08/2010 12:20:22 PM
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Exactly this. Though I don't know it nearly by heart. *NM*
- 06/08/2010 06:56:34 AM
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*NM*
- 06/08/2010 06:56:34 AM
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Re: Books that take a long time to read.
- 03/08/2010 08:58:55 AM
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
- 03/08/2010 10:27:58 AM
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The unabridged Zohar in 23 volumes probably ranks up there.
- 03/08/2010 07:15:43 PM
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I'm reading The Lord of the Rings in French. Slowly. *NM*
- 03/08/2010 10:57:04 PM
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Why?
- 04/08/2010 02:14:44 PM
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Camilla's post above pretty much encapsulates it; I want to practice my French with something I know *NM*
- 06/08/2010 06:55:02 AM
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Re: Books that take a long time to read.
- 03/08/2010 11:31:10 PM
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The Sound and the Fury
- 04/08/2010 02:51:40 PM
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