I read fantasy. I've read many books, but I can't spell the names.

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I've read most of this series. I sort of stoped during the one that mostly dealt with Roland ans Susane. I plan to finish it some time. And you guys are right, this is deffintly no Horror story. Its a fun mix , and i would second TheRedSpades recommondation. King himself considerd his biggest work, and put in a lot of effort to make sure it was completed before he dies. The story touches the worlds of some of kings other books ( f.e. the stand ).

I am really amazed by the amount of people who prefer classic literature. And all these old people complaining that the youth don't read the classics. Well, maybe we manga readers are the intellectual elite. ( tadaa )

Personally, I think Classics contain much richer language and it's better than the new books.

[my god, my grammar is getting worse]

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I've gone through a lot of reading phases, for example mysteries when I was ~10 - read all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock books/stories, Agatha Christie, Ngaio March, Josephine Tey, Mary Stewart, etc. Then for a while I read just about every Regency (generally England, ~1810, the "tea & crumpets" type rather than the "bodice-ripper" type) romance I could get my hands on, then other historical & modern romance novels, some sci-fi and fantasy, and other random books. If I'm bored, I'll read anything I can get my hands on, which has led to some very....interesting...reading. >_>

At the same time I was reading a lot for school, and I managed to read everything in every English anthology I had, from about 5th grade onward (I read fast & was bored in class a lot). In college I was a History major/English minor, so I read a ton of classics there. Some of them I really enjoyed, others...not so much. Often if there was something in the anthology that I enjoyed, I'd read more from that author. (Shakespeare's fun to read, as are Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy. If I have to read The Scarlet Letter one more time, though, I'll run screaming from the room. >_<)

Now I read mostly manga. I'm sure this is another "phase", but then again there are so many different types of manga stories that I may not get burned out as I have in the past. Mainly, my life now is much more suited to manga reading - half an hour here or there to read a volume, maybe an hour of reading on the computer after the kids are asleep - than to classics or even modern novels, which require larger chunks of time.

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you are what we call, a "NERD"

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Gee...ya think?


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you're proud of it aren't you?


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Hope yo aren' to proud of your nerd status, becuase i am not willing to give you one TofuQueen.

by the way, what kind of job did you get as a history major?

Eh...worked as a lab tech analyzing machine oil & in inventory control (the company put two unrelated part-time jobs together & hired me full time to do both, weird I know) for a couple years. I'll skip the long boring story & just say that I now work as a church secretary among other things, and have never really used my history degree (or my accounting degree, but that's part of the long boring story...).

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"[English] not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."
-James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992

I used to be a total booknerd... as in, I would read one book a day o.o
I like everything by Francesca Lia Block & Holly Black, the Harry Potter Series & the Artemis Fowl Series, to be specific. I don't read as many books anymore since I was reading instead of listening in classes and doing homework, and that wasn't good for my report card. I did read a lot over the summer though, like 20 serial killer novels. Of course, I completely freaked out afterwards & couldn't stay at home alone at night for a bit after that ;P
&then I got my laptop & became a manga/anime addict.

I read mostly crime, sci-fi and fantasy books.

These include the Prey series by John Sandford, the Alex Cross series by James Patterson, anything to do with Star Wars, Harry Potter and the Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell.

I will read anything as long as I'm not bored or don't like the title.

I'm surprised you didn't read Sherlock Holmes or Dune........

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Actually I did read Dune. I read the old series (starting from Dune and ending with Chapterhouse or heretics, I can't remember which is the last one) and I've also read the first two of the houses trilogy (Atreides and Harkonnen).

From Sherlock Holmes I've read some of the short stories when I was younger (i.e. 13-14) for a school assignment.

Well, my first response to this topic was a joke (a quote from Stephen Colbert for those who watch it)

In light of my previous comment I suppose I should clarify it as my situation has changed over the years... I think my previous disdain for books resulted from the fact that I saw them and related literature as nothing more than a waste of time, primarily from the fact that as I grew, most of the books I was exposed to were fiction. Personally, I am a very slow reader-- This in part helped me to dislike the time consuming aspect of reading as I would spent a lot of time rereading paragraphs. What made it worse was the fact that I felt as though I was not gaining anything significant from reading, not to mention it always seemed pretty boring.

I have to say that, looking back, one of the things I would have preferred to do more of was read books. I think reading strengthens your ability to assimilate and comprehend ideas in complex text and this comes in handy later on in life. Recently, I have become interested in reading novels that contain more philosophical and propositional aspects than those of fiction--for instance, reading a novel of a famous professor or political candidate. While reading these I find that I am more satisfied with the time spent and the knowledge gained.

On a lighter subject, items such as manga thankfully have lots of pictures so they're relatively easier to get through.

ever read Crime and Punishment?

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