Bond...James Bond wrote:Currently about to begin a massive reread of all Harry Potter books before the new one comes out.....which I'll buy and finish before the day is out.
You can read an entire Harry Potter book in one day??
Yep....Harry Potter 6 I bought at 12:30 and started reading at 1 (in the AM) and finished at 9 or 10 (in the AM).
Isn't insomnia great?
And I can probably read the first 3 in one day.
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
Who Knows wrote:Just finished "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy and "Letter to a Christian Nation" by Sam Harris. Currently reading "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson. Up next is the final Harry Potter book.
Who Knows, I don't know how you finished McCarthy's book. I couldn't stand it. He writes in the strangest, choppy sentences. Like me.
I never said I enjoyed it! :) I actually hated the book, but I can't just stop reading books - i have to finish them.
I wouldn't recommend it. It was hard to read (as KA noted, the writing style is horrible), and it was extremely depressing. I have no idea how it's done so well.
WK: "Joseph Smith asserted that the Book of Mormon peoples were the original inhabitants of the americas"
Will Schryver: "No, he didn’t." 3/19/08
Still waiting for Will to back this up...
Bond...James Bond wrote:Yep....Harry Potter 6 I bought at 12:30 and started reading at 1 (in the AM) and finished at 9 or 10 (in the AM).
Did you remember anything in the book or even enjoy reading it??
And I can probably read the first 3 in one day.
That's because you've already read them once before, right?
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
Dr. Shades wrote: Did you remember anything in the book or even enjoy reading it??
Yeah....SLughorn and the gang. Lots of Ron snogging Lavender. Draco being a doofus. Shape killed Dumbledore. It's not exactly the most complex thing ever written. And I do enjoy reading them. ALthough I'm pissed off that they keep killing my favorite characters.....honestly kill Hagrid already!!!! All he does is slow down the story. He was important at the beginning of the series but now he's just added as some sort of obligation by Rowling.
That's because you've already read them once before, right?
Yeah....but when I first read them I (I was a little late in being hooked) I got #1 from somebody and read it in about 4 hours (it's only like 200 pages or so) and then went out and bought #2 and #3 and read them the following day. So yeah.
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
I don't think it's so hard to imagine the book being read in 8-9 hours. I just did the math. 652 pages in 8 hours = 81.5 pages per hour. That's 1.3 pages per minute. I just picked up my copy and read one page in less than 45 seconds, and I wasn't speed reading.
The only thing shocking, to me, about that statement is that someone could have 8-9 hours that they could devote to reading with no breaks. Not happening in my house. :)
Oh and now that I'm reflecting on the books I guess I won't do a massive re-read since I remember them all now. Thanks Shades for allowing me to reflect!
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
Bond...James Bond wrote:Yeah....but when I first read them I (I was a little late in being hooked) I got #1 from somebody and read it in about 4 hours (it's only like 200 pages or so) and then went out and bought #2 and #3 and read them the following day. So yeah.
Un-frickin' believable! I guess I'm a little too OCD when I read. I can't imagine finishing a book in a week, much less a day, much less two in one day.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
Dr. Shades wrote:Un-frickin' believable! I guess I'm a little too OCD when I read. I can't imagine finishing a book in a week, much less a day, much less two in one day.
I'm obsessive. I read "Da Vinci Code" in a day. I just couldn't put it down.
I don't think I can compile a list of all the books I'm currently reading and re-reading. I read about three or four a week, but I read fast unless I'm working on something very dense that needs a lot of attention.
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