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    What Do You Want to Read Next?

    My next ten ( not counting the one I am currently reading) will probably include: The Jungle--Upton Sincalir West With the Vikings--Edison Marshall At Play in the Fields of the Lord--Peter Matthiesson Darkness at Noon-Arthur Koestler Notes From the Underground--Fyodor Dostoevsky...
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    1001 books you must read before you die.

    Luckily we were never forced to read...these were simply many of the books available on our shelves. Well, the more modern ones are recent reads I have picked out for myself, usually without even knowing they were considered important reading. I can't imagine being punished for carrying a...
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    How many books have you read since...

    Your welcome. And it was a pretty decent book. It had some colorful characters.
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    1001 books you must read before you die.

    Sounds like the list my parents kept of books for our homeschool reading. This is how many I've read so far...and I own about fifty more that are in my TBR stack. Atonement – Ian McEwan Life of Pi – Yann Martel Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden The Reader – Bernhard Schlink The...
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    How many books have you read since...

    Disconnected-- I liked the ''Looking Glass War''...but it was a little strange. I'm not too sure even now whether or not I really cared for making all the characters warriors. "Frankenstein Unbound" was excellent. One of my favorite reads for the year. It's about a man from the future...
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    How many books have you read since...

    I can't say for certain how many I read in December '07, but this is my list since then. A good deal of them are YA, as I sort of skipped over them in my childhood in my eagerness to get at the ' grown-up books'. June was definitely a slacker month due to the rose garden. Now that it is...
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    How many books have you read?

    That's how I read when I was that age too. And I lived on a farm so there was a lot of work to do. All my friends were readers as well...that way we could trade books and have interesting conversations without ever uttering the dreaded summer phrase " I am sooo bored."
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    How many books have you read?

    There would be no accurate way for me to tell. I used to own most of the books I had read, and that was well over a thousand, counting YA books. But the books and the lists of books I kept perished in a fire. I can remember though the year I was fifteen I kept a notebook to see how many books I...
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    Judging a book by its Cover

    Yes! It makes it really confusing. Especially when the stories are completely different. I recently bought a copy of "Candide" and the cover has a black and white photograph of a rose topiary. :confused: Also there seems to be a great selection of books whose covers have blurred images of...
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    Disagree with ending?

    Yes. Both endings to the 7th Harry Potter book made me squirm. " Rose Madder" was the one Stephen King book I threw down in disgust over it's ending. The worst one this year however has been " The Stone Diaries". It was doing all right there at the beginning, and towards the middle I got the...
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    Judging a book by its Cover

    I've read "Darwinia". I bought it for the cover. :whistling: It was a pretty good read too. Most of the time I have to ignore the covers so that I will read a book. Some of the newer editions of classics, for instance have such boring cover pictures that they turn me off the book. Especially...
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    What kind of reader are you?

    I fall between moderate and voracious, I believe. I average ten books a month and I have many other hobbies as well, so reading is not all-encompassing for me. However it is the central part of my universe,( second only to buying books) so I voted for voracious.
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    Traveling with Atreyu in search of Falkor.
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    I'm in California, learning how to keep demons...the practical way.
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    Poll: How old is the average reader on this Forum?

    25 and I've been hooked on books since I was born. In fact I can't even remember when I learned to read...I was tested as having a college age reading level in fourth grade. That made it very hard because we weren't allowed to read adult books in grade school! :eek:
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