Who reads?

Question

i'm asking to see if other than just me reads oh and i don't mean magazines i mean books like 100+ pages

Answer 1

of course! I love to read! i hate people who think magazines count as reading, i LOVE it so much! i have a huge collection of books! i wish you went to my school. I need some intellectual conversation about books!

Answer 2

I don't go a day without, evem if it's 20 pages out of the book I am reading at the time. Usually I will invest a good 1 to 2 hours a day reading. While I love to read, I also love to live life! The shortest book I have read probably in the last 10 years was about 300 pages. I like longer stories because I get attached very easily.

Answer 3

I read all the time. Alot of people do too. Working in a library, I see people check out hundreds of books (100+ pages) each day. It comforts me, especially seeing as how many people don't willing to settle on magazines, movies, etc ...

Answer 4

Not only do I read, but I read short stories and novels that are on the level of literature and/or classics.



I do not waste my time on books that are not on that level because I would find it extremely boring and superficial.



However, I take issue with the idea that if the work is not 100+ pages, it's not real reading. There are many high-level works of literature that are less than 100 pages and require serious reading and thinking.

Answer 5

I do. I average 3 books a week and none are under 100 pages.

Answer 6

I read 2-3 books a month, 3-5 hundred pages each. Yeah, I think I read a lot.

Answer 7

I live in a house with about 20,000 books and I love them dearly ... so on average it's about two heavy and five/six light per week.



I'll endorse 'The God Solution' - and the person who recommended that might like to try Sam Harris's two new books (one is called Letter to a Christian Nation, can't find the other, new, Amazon will have) and I've just finished 'Six Degrees' by Mark Lynas, which is a frightening and very well-researched account of global warming.

Answer 8

Yes, many people read "grown-up" books. Right now I'm reading "the God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, and when I finsih I'll start "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama.

Answer 9

Absolutely, you are not alone! Check out www.nancysbooknook.com and www.librarything.com for further proof.

Reading gives a person's internal life a spiritual and mental prosperity unknown to the functionally illiterate. Reading is food for the soul and I pity the person who survives solely on the "junk food" of t.v. and movies. Don't get me wrong; I enjoy t.v. and movies, but they are very mentally passive activities, unlike reading, which stimulates your brain cells!

Answer 10

i read, even if the fast live style of the modern times ry to keep me out of the books i try to always been reading something. I' ve great amount of debts with the classsics jajaja, but i'm working in that.

Answer 11

Our books allow us to live with them :)



I'm thinking about putting a picture of my husband up in all the bookstore with a note "Do not sell to this man!"

Answer 12

Reading? Reading is for sissies. Real men drink rum, dance around campfires, and slap each other with beef jerky.

Answer 13

You are a fool if you don't read the new worlds that open up to you the new ideas the new views on life are to important to miss.

Answer 14

I read every book a week. I've created this list of books that I must read before I leave this earth. I read mostly, the great American classics. I also enjoy Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc



I got this lecture series on Classics of American Literature. If anyone is interested email me.



Classics of American Literature

Author: Arnold Weinstein

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These works are both American and classics. The course has been crafted to explain why some works become classics while others do not, why some "immortal" works fade from our attention completely, and even why some contemporary works now being ignored or snubbed by critics may be considered immortal one day. One memorable work at a time, you'll see how each of these masterpieces shares the uncompromising uniqueness that invariably marks the entire American literary canon. From Sleepy Hollow to The Great Gatsby, Professor Weinstein contends that the literary canon lives, grows, and changes. What links these writers to each other—and to us readers today—is the awareness that the past lives and changes as generations of writers and readers step forward to interpret it anew. The course was born from Professor Weinstein's conviction that American literature is our "great estate," and that claiming this rightful inheritance—the living past and the lessons we can take from it—should be nothing less than a unique and joyous learning experience.

Experience Two Centuries of America's Greatest Works

Professor Weinstein explains that America's classic works should be savored as part of our inner landscape: part of how we see both America and ourselves.

He leads you through more than two centuries of the best writers America has yet produced, bringing out the beauty of their language, the excitement of their stories, and the value in what they say about life, power, love, adventure, and what it means, in every sense, to be American.

Perhaps you recall: Melville's prowling Ahab, on the search for Moby Dick, and the power of the "grand, ungodly, Godlike man" The quiet diner in The Grapes of Wrath and the pain of one of John Steinbeck's "Okies" trying to purchase a dime's worth of bread The parlor in Long Day's Journey Into Night and the lifetime of tension in a simple request to a father that he turn on the lights.

Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for 25 years for some mysterious reason—but what exactly was it? Why did Emerson believe in self-reliance, and why do we?

Twain, our first media celebrity, tells stories that have an inkling of Peter Pan: Tom Sawyer never does grow up. But Huck Finn must grow up to face the racism of the South and get past his own polluted conscience—can he do it? James brings American innocents to Europe for them to inherit the world—but do they?

Discover the Stories behind America's Immortal Writers

Consider that:

Emily Dickinson was virtually unheard of in her own time.

William Faulkner's books were out of print until the mid-1940s.

F. Scott Fitzgerald died believing he had been forgotten.

Readers of their times would be astounded if they knew the immortality these writers achieved, just as we are astounded that they once were overlooked.

Most of us don't know that when Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass—seemingly in answer to Ralph Waldo Emerson's memorable wish for the poet America deserved—he sent a copy to Emerson, America's most revered man of letters. When Emerson replied in extraordinarily flattering terms, Whitman published his letter, virtually forcing the new poet's acceptance by a literati that would might have preferred to flee from Whitman's startlingly new, often sexual, poetry.

Perhaps you share the common picture of Emily Dickinson: a passive, gentle, reclusive spinster content in her father's Amherst, Massachusetts, home. If so, allow Professor Weinstein to introduce you to her friend, clergyman and author Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who said of "gentle" Emily: "I never was with anyone who drained my nerve power so much. Without touching her, she drew from me. I am glad not to live near her."

Through this course, you will learn to:

Explain the roles of self-reliance and the "self-made man" in the evolution of American literature

Identify the tenets of American Romanticism

Describe the evolution of the American ghost story, from Poe and Hawthorne to James and Morrison

Outline the epic strain in American literature, from Melville and Whitman to Faulkner and Ellison

Explain the importance of slavery as a critical subject for Stowe, Twain, Faulkner, and Morrison

Summarize perspectives on nature revealed in poets Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, and Eliot

Identify the tenets of Modernism in the work of Eliot, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner

Identify the contributions of O'Neill, Miller, and Williams to American theater

Summarize the threads of the complex relationship between America's great writers and the past.



Savor the Joy of Great Reading

Dr. Weinstein is the Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor at Brown University, where he has been teaching literature to packed classrooms since 1968. Brown University student course evaluation summaries reported: "By far, students' greatest lament was that they only got to listen to Professor Weinstein once a week."

One customer writes: "Professor Weinstein is inspiring. Not only am I enjoying these lectures, but I am also rereading these wonderful classics and having a wonderful time."

The course will lead you to read or reread masterpieces that intrigue you most. And with the deeper understanding you gain from the lectures, you will likely experience such joy from great reading that you may wonder why you have spent so much time on contemporary books.

The 84 carefully crafted lectures in this course, each 30 minutes long, are your royal road to recapturing the American experience—and our intellectual and cultural heritage. Just review the lecture titles. All of this can be yours, and the journey will be as rewarding as the arrival.

Lecture 01 - Introduction to Classics of American Literature

Lecture 02 - Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography_ The First American Story

Lecture 03 - Washington Irving_ The First American Storyteller

Lecture 04 - Ralph Waldo Emerson Yesterday_ America's Coming of Age

Lecture 05 - Emerson Today_ Architect of American Values

Lecture 06 - Emerson Tomorrow_ Deconstructing Culture and Self

Lecture 07 - Henry David Thoreau_ Countercultural Hero

Lecture 08 - Thoreau_ Stylist and Humorist Extraordinaire

Lecture 09 - Walden_ Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Lecture 10 - Edgar Allan Poe

Lecture 11 - Poe_ Ghost Writer

Lecture 12 - Poe's Legacy_ The Self as Haunted Palace

Lecture 13 - Nathaniel Hawthorne and the American Past

Lecture 14 - The Scarlet Letter_ Puritan Romance

Lecture 15 - Hawthorne's A_ Interpretation and Semiosis

Lecture 16 - The Scarlet Letter_ Political Tract or Psychological Study

Lecture 17 - Hawthorne Our Contemporary

Lecture 18 - Herman Melville and the Making of Moby-Dick

Lecture 19 - The Biggest Fish Story of Them All

Lecture 20 - Ahab and the White Whale

Lecture 21 - Moby-Dick_ Tragedy of Perspective

Lecture 22 - Melville's Benito Cereno_ American (Mis)adventure at Sea

Lecture 23 - Benito Cereno_ Theater of Power or Power of Theater

Lecture 24 - Walt Whitman_ The American Bard Appears

Lecture 25 - Whitman_ Poet of the Body

Lecture 26 - Whitman_ Poet of the City

Lecture 27 - Whitman_ Poet of Death

Lecture 28 - The Whitman Legacy

Lecture 29 - Uncle Tom's Cabin_ The Unread Classic

Lecture 30 - Stowe's Representation of Slavery

Lecture 31 - Freedom and Art in Uncle Tom's Cabin

Lecture 32 - Emily Dickinson_ In and Out of Nature

Lecture 33 - Dickinson's Poetry_ Language and Consciousness

Lecture 34 - Dickinson_ Devotee of Death

Lecture 35 - Dickinson_ Amherst's Madame de Sade

Lecture 36 - Dickinson's Legacy

Lecture 37 - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer_ American Paradise Regained

Lecture 38 - Huckleberry Finn_ The Banned Classic

Lecture 39 - Huckleberry Finn_ A Child's Voice, a Child's Vision

Lecture 40 - Huckleberry Finn, American Orphan

Lecture 41 - Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson_ Black and White Charade

Lecture 42 - Henry James and the Novel of Perception

Lecture 43 - The Turn of the Screw_ Do You Believe in Ghosts

Lecture 44 - Turning the Screw of Interpretation

Lecture 45 - Stephen Crane and the Literature of War

Lecture 46 - The Red Badge of Courage_ Brave New World

Lecture 47 - Stephen Crane_ Scientist of Human Behavior

Lecture 48 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman_ War Against Patriarchy

Lecture 49 - The Yellow Wallpaper_ Descent into Hell or Free at Last

Lecture 50 - Robert Frost and the Spirit of New England

Lecture 51 - Robert Frost_ At Home in the Metaphor

Lecture 52 - Robert Frost and the Fruits of the Earth

Lecture 53 - T.S. Eliot_ Unloved Modern Classic

Lecture 54 - T.S. Eliot_ The Waste Land and Beyond

Lecture 55 - F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby_ American Romance

Lecture 56 - The Great Gatsby_ A Story of Lost Illusions

Lecture 57 - Fitzgerald's Triumph_ Writing the American Dream

Lecture 58 - Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises_ Novel of the Lost Generation

Lecture 59 - The Sun Also Rises_ Spiritual Quest

Lecture 60 - Ernest Hemingway_ Wordsmith

Lecture 61 - Hemingway's The Garden of Eden_ Female Desire Unleashed

Lecture 62 - The Garden of Eden_ Combat Zone

Lecture 63 - William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury_ The Idiot's Tale

Lecture 64 - The Sound and the Fury_ Failed Rites of Passage

Lecture 65 - The Sound and the Fury_ Signifying Nothing

Lecture 66 - Absalom, Absalom!_ Civil War Epic

Lecture 67 - Absalom, Absalom!_ The Language of Love

Lecture 68 - Absalom, Absalom!_ The Overpass to Love

Lecture 69 - The Grapes of Wrath_ American Saga

Lecture 70 - John Steinbeck_ Poet of the Little Man

Lecture 71 - The Grapes of Wrath_ Reconceiving Self and Family

Lecture 72 - Invisible Man_ Black Bildungsroman

Lecture 73 - Invisible Man_ Reconceiving History and Race

Lecture 74 - Invisible Man_ What Did I Do, to Be So Black and Blue

Lecture 75 - Eugene O'Neill_ Great God of American Theater

Lecture 76 - Long Day's Journey Into Night_ There's No Place Like Home

Lecture 77 - Tennessee Williams_ Managing Libido

Lecture 78 - A Streetcar Named Desire_ The Death of Romance

Lecture 79 - Death of a Salesman_ Death of an Ethos

Lecture 80 - Death of a Salesman_ Tragedy of the American Dream

Lecture 81 - Toni Morrison's Beloved_ Dismembering and Remembering

Lecture 82 - Beloved_ A Story of Thick Love

Lecture 83 - Beloved_ Morrison's Writing of the Body

Lecture 84 - Conclusion to Classics of American Literature

Answer 15

I love to read! Fantasy is my favorite!

Answer 16

Once a day. Pax - C.