odd reading habits

I usualy do both things you do. Hmm, can't think of much others.

I tend to slow down as I near the end. And the last few pages I read SUPER slow, almost prolonging the fact that it's going to end.

If it’s a good book that I don’t really want to end, then at the end of each chapter I try to set it down and do something else to prolong it. If it’s a REALLY good book then I find myself getting lost in it and someone can be standing beside me screaming FIRE and I won’t hear them.

I also normally want something in my hand to tear apart, which usually tends to be business cards. When I used to use nice bookmarks, I’d finish a book and realize that I had destroyed the bookmark completely, and then feel bad I had destroyed a nice bookmark. So now, because my own business cards are always kicking around, I use them and don’t have to feel bad when I peel them apart.

I'll often go slow on most books unless I'm really into the author. But once I get towards the end, I blow right through it.
And I recently read a long series of books, got to the end of it, was looking to see how many pages I had left to go and accidentally glanced at the last line of the book and I ruined the ending for myself.

I WISH I could get lost in a book like you bot, if there is any noise around me, I get easily distracted, it annoys the piss outta me.

I usually read half the book in a day or 2. Then it takes me forever to finish it. I also have a really bad habit of starting 4 or 5 at the same time. Never get anything read that way.

I read from right to left, except for Chinese, which I read from bottom to top.

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I prefer Machiavallian Man of Mystery.

Im intrigued. The girls must be swooning left and right.

[QUOTE=sacredchao23]I usually read half the book in a day or 2. Then it takes me forever to finish it. [/QUOTE]

That could also be because [B]a lot[/B] of books run out of steam halfway through. You reach a point in the narrative where you can actually hear the writer asking himself --okay so what happens now? Know what I mean?

The more I write, the less patience I have for writers who have no idea where they are going--like being asked out on a date and when your date arrives, he asks you what you want to do. I use to give books fifty pages and then it was twenty and now it's like if the writer doesn't have reservations for dinner and/or tickets in hand by page 10, I call it a night. Probably missed out on a lot of good books that way, but once my interest is lost or the writing gets sloppy of the story logic fails, we're over.

I'm going to die a very old literary spinster lovingly tending thousands of books that I killed because they jilted me. A variation on "Rose for Emily." There will, of couse, be several dozen cats involved.

[QUOTE=Luddy Dunn]That could also be because [B]a lot[/B] of books run out of steam halfway through. You reach a point in the narrative where you can actually hear the writer asking himself --okay so what happens now? Know what I mean?[/QUOTE]

I hate when that happens! The other thing I hate is when you get halfway through and can figure out the whole thing because it’s predictable. It’s so disappointing when that happens!

Sellout: It’s great that I can get absorbed into it, but others around me would disagree! I actually used to get in trouble as a kid for reading. (Imagine that pounding on the bathroom door and the yelling of “You better not be reading in there!” as that’s what used to happen to me.) I had to sneak books around just so I could finish them. Maybe that’s why I’m a fast reader haha. The downside to getting so absorbed is that the book gets finished quite easily. I average at least 100 pages per hour, so smaller books like Chuck’s are over quickly. He’s one of those that I try to pause in between chapters so it lasts longer.

[QUOTE=DecoyRobot]I hate when that happens! The other thing I hate is when you get halfway through and can figure out the whole thing because it’s predictable. It’s so disappointing when that happens!

Sellout: It’s great that I can get absorbed into it, but others around me would disagree! I actually used to get in trouble as a kid for reading. (Imagine that pounding on the bathroom door and the yelling of “You better not be reading in there!” as that’s what used to happen to me.) I had to sneak books around just so I could finish them. Maybe that’s why I’m a fast reader haha. The downside to getting so absorbed is that the book gets finished quite easily. I average at least 100 pages per hour, so smaller books like Chuck’s are over quickly. He’s one of those that I try to pause in between chapters so it lasts longer.[/QUOTE]

You got in trouble for reading? :confused: That's gotta be a first.

I need backround noise, for whatever I do, reading included. I'm with the rest of you in that I like to make the book last longer so I can absorb more of it and examine it more carefully in my mind. The noise around me distracts me enough so that I'll lose my place and have to re-read parts to the point where I almost memorize it and can go back to it in my head later if I need to analyze a part further in my reading.

[QUOTE=FuzzBusta]
I need backround noise, for whatever I do, reading included. I'm with the rest of you in that I like to make the book last longer so I can absorb more of it and examine it more carefully in my mind. The noise around me distracts me enough so that I'll lose my place and have to re-read parts to the point where I almost memorize it and can go back to it in my head later if I need to analyze a part further in my reading.[/QUOTE]

See, that's why I hate background noises when I read, and it's also why there's really a limited time during the day that my focus is at its peak for reading. I can see why you'd think it's a good thing, but it just annoys me when it happens to me.

I guess my odd habit, if you want to call this an odd habit, is lately I almost always read the first five to ten pages of a book I buy once I get it. It's sort of like going to a confectionery and trying out the various chocolates or candies they have, especially since I usually have at least two or three books being read at a given time. I may not touch the book for another month or so, but I just have to read the first pages once I buy it.

i read two books at once, one for the toilet, one everywhere else.

i prefer nonfiction on the thrown, mostly biography, but sometimes i read history, too. or survival manuals. i like reading survival manuals.

Most of the time though it's a very faint backround noise, like my TV at low low volume or the ever-annoying fan on my computer. It's more of an ambiance thing than anything else. There are times though when I need absolute quiet when reading, especially when it's a textbook.

[QUOTE=snuffy]i read two books at once, one for the toilet, one everywhere else.

i prefer nonfiction on the thrown, mostly biography, but sometimes i read history, too. or survival manuals. i like reading survival manuals.[/QUOTE]

Oh. I thought you would say you had this next to the throne:

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/undertow87/BathroomReader.jpg[/IMG]

I have one of those. Read through it in like a week (only because I just got out of the hospital and my body was getting rid of all the crap-ass hospital food and leftover drugs, I don't like spending a lot of time on the crapper).

[QUOTE=Undertow]Oh. I thought you would say you had this next to the throne:

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/undertow87/BathroomReader.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

what is that?

A series of useless trivia books to entertain you while you park your ass on the porcelain.

And no, there is very little fecal references in them.

[QUOTE=snuffy]i read two books at once, one for the toilet, one everywhere else.

i prefer nonfiction on the thrown, mostly biography, but sometimes i read history, too. or survival manuals. i like reading survival manuals.[/QUOTE]

On the [B][I]thrown[/I][/B]??? Isn't that what our lesser primate cousin do with their um, throne material.

This could generate a whole new criticism factor, instead of thumbs up or thumbs down: how much feces would you throw at this book?

Sorry snuff, that was just too good to pass by.

[QUOTE=FuzzBusta]A series of useless trivia books to entertain you while you park your ass on the porcelain.

And no, there is very little fecal references in them.[/QUOTE]

oh, and another great book for the porcelain is

[img]http://store.rabbitvalley.org/image_cache/13075.jpg[/img]

there is a sequel out, too.

[QUOTE=Luddy Dunn]On the [B][I]thrown[/I][/B]??? Isn't that what our lesser primate cousin do with their um, throne material.

This could generate a whole new criticism factor, instead of thumbs up or thumbs down: how much feces would you throw at this book?

Sorry snuff, that was just too good to pass by.[/QUOTE]

ha ha ha, that's great. nice catch.

I read one book on the bus now, that's a given. (Pride and Prejudice as of right now)

[B]Luddy [/B] I totally agree about books loosing steam, and that's where The Count of Monte Cristo lost me. I need to read the abridged versoin for sure. Also, A Clockwork Orange, though it didn't lose steam, was hard to get in to, so I need to try it again as well.

I also tend to have a book I read in bed, though I haven't one at the moment, at one point it was [COLOR=MediumTurquoise]House [/COLOR] of Leaves. Let just suggest you don't read that in you bedroom after dark, I was constantly glancing over at my closet door which has a huge floor to ceiling mirror on it and thinking that the reflection in it was really my room growing and preparing to swallow me whole.

I didn't sleep so well.

Then I have a coffee shop book that's usually short stories. Right now it's the collected short stories of Hemmingway.

I tend not to read the last page, but instead a page somewhere in the middle and then, as I read, try to make sense of what I read earlier.

I have some of those bathroom readers too! The one I have now is the Universe one. Bits about space and time etc. I can't really sit anywhere for 5 mins or more without reading something. I also have a bunch of books going at once and luckily have no problems remembering where I was in the book or the characters etc from each one. Even now at work I have audio books playing all day.

Yes, in trouble for reading! When sent to my room to clean it, I'd wander around reading and randomly kicking out at things or opening/closing drawers to make it sound like I was cleaning. My parents had a good laugh when a teacher suggested that as 'punishment' that they make me read a chapter of a book. They had to break it to them that reading too much is why I was in trouble.
I do give my parents credit for reading to me as a little brat though.