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View Poll Results: How much have you read this past year, or average the past few years?
0 - Don't like reading 2 6.25%
0 - Read newspapers and magazines, but not books 1 3.13%
1 - If it's a big deal 0 0%
2-4 5 15.63%
5-8 6 18.75%
9-14 2 6.25%
15-20 6 18.75%
20-25 3 9.38%
26-35 2 6.25%
Over 35 5 15.63%
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Old 12-07-2007, 06:43 PM   #1
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I've been reading too darn much. Actually, the problem is that I'm reading too many books at once and can't keep them straight. I mean, Abe Lincoln didn't really investigate the murder of an antiques dealer, open a software business, and then have an affair with Queen Victoria, did he?

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That was Franklin.
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Old 12-07-2007, 06:44 PM   #2
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I've read about 40 books since July, when I started actually keeping count. Of course, quite a few of those are young adult, high-interest that are super quick to read.
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Old 12-07-2007, 06:47 PM   #3
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Here's the books I've read so far this year:

1. Truth and Fiction in the DaVinci Code - Bart D. Ehrman
2. The Death of Common Sense - Phillip K. Howard
3. The Virtues of Aging - Jimmy Carter
4. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
5. The Life of St. Paul - James Stalker
6. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
7. War As I Knew It - George Patton
8. How to Get into Law School - Susan Estrich
9. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
10. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
11. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values - Robert M. Pirsig
12. Candide - Voltaire
13. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
14. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
15. History Wars - The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past - Edward T. Linethal
16. Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream - Barbara Ehrenreich
17. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
18. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass
19. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God - Mary Rowlandson
20. Blackhawk: An Autobiography - Blackhawk
21. Opus Dei - John L. Allen
22. On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
23. What is History? - Edward Hallett Carr
24. The Birth of Christianity: The First Twenty Years - Paul Barnett
25. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Volume 1 - Eric Foner
26. Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling - James W. Sire
27. Hiroshima - John Hershey
28. Damages - Barry Werth
29. I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World - Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by James Washington
30. Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty - Scott Turow

12 of those were for school. My goal for the year is 35.
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Old 12-07-2007, 06:47 PM   #4
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I hate books on tape and refuse to move to these elecronic things. There is a great deal of satisfation from reading a good book.
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Old 12-07-2007, 06:52 PM   #5
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I'm trying to imagine why I might prefer an electronic book but I'm not coming up with anything. Any ideas?
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Old 12-07-2007, 06:54 PM   #6
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I'm trying to imagine why I might prefer an electronic book but I'm not coming up with anything. Any ideas?
It takes up less room? You never have to go to the bookstore or wait for shipping. These are some advantages I've seen/heard them promoting.
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Old 12-07-2007, 06:53 PM   #7
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Old 12-07-2007, 06:56 PM   #8
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NO. Not even if it has subtitles.
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Old 12-07-2007, 09:47 PM   #9
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NO. Not even if it has subtitles.
Oh, well then probably none on purpose. I went into a library once and read some titles of books off the spines, but my head started to hurt so I stopped.
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I'd say including college books I've read between 20-25. And thats really a down year. I'd like to read more....I just need to find more time.
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Old 12-07-2007, 06:59 PM   #11
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I picked up a new book this week in Charleston on the history of the Hunley, the Civil war Submarine they raised a year or so ago. Also read a book recently on the burning of Oceloa Missouri by the Jayhawkers in the Civil war
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Old 12-07-2007, 07:09 PM   #12
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How on Earth can anyone read over 35 books in a year and still have time to post here?
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And in answer to the question, I've read 5-8. I can remember 8. It's possible there were one or two more, but if so they must not have made much of an impact.
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