How fast do you read?

• Shirayuki wrote on 2010-05-26 19:31
  The speed that I read a book really depends on how much I enjoy the book, or if I'm just required to read it. I think the quickest I have done was read around 300~ pages in 2~ hours Dx
  
  /slow
• Forsaken wrote on 2010-05-26 22:35

  Quote from Phunkie;44778:

  I disagree. Just like you're innocent until proven guilty, one deserves to be respected until a reason is found not to.
  
  One should always be kind when meeting strangers. Not rude.
  One should always believe what other people have to tell you. Not skeptical 24/7.
  
  Unless I know that what you're saying is completely wrong, why shouldn't I believe you? I know nothing about Biology, so I shouldn't believe what a Biology professor tells me about evolution? And if I don't agree, I should call him an idiot and say the worst things about him, like Sin did?
  
  No. It's called respect. It is something everything deserves. Respect is only earned after you lose it.
  
  
  I believe you though. :) And I'm sorry he said those things. He's usually nice, however. (Or so I've seen.)
  
  Maybe he's just having a horrible day.

  
  
  There are VERY few people deserving of respect honestly, and I rarely find them on the Internet.
  
  I'm a cynical asshole, and my faith in other humans is nil, with the exception of my friends. I'm also like most people, and I evaluate people on how useful they are to me (Shallow, right?), and will treat them differently depending on what they can offer. Though I am still a mocking asshole to the majority of people I know, all because thats how I am.
  
  I'm polite to strangers for the first day or so, and than depending on how I view them, I either go completley indifferent, or I treat them like the people I consider associates (I don't instantly befriend people, because you can never truly know another person).
  
  People lie. People lie more than they realize. But those are the people that care what others think of them, which is where I don't fit. Though I will lie to protect something, or in other cases to alleviate one thing or another, and clear up the deception later, I am generally entirely honest.
  
  Sin is just being another tool on the Internet. He's just in the need of attention, probably because he needs some TLC (Other than from himself). However, if what the professor said is completley inaccurate, sure, go ahead and call him an idiot. Being taught incorrectly should be a crime, because all it does is breed idiocy.
  
  Heres an example for you: In high school, I had a teacher teaching Programming, and Web Development. Said teacher taught from a book that was over a decade old, and was teaching bad practices, as well as had no actual understanding. He also taught outdated programming, which would again teach bad practices, which would impede the students who actually had an interest in the topic.
  
  Would you allow the teacher to go on teaching incorrectly, or would you correct him, and help the people with interest learn the proper material? I chose the later, because I had greater respect for the students who wanted to learn, rather than respect for an unqualified teacher.
  
  

  Quote from Sin;44780:

  Nice ad hominem there.
  
  >who's trying to act hard
  Yep, because I'm the guy here claiming he can finish a 700 page book in 3 hours, right? Although that's irrelevant now because you admitted yourself you thought most pages in most chapters were useless enough to skip.
  
  U mad, bro?
  
  I would never want your respect. You are worth less than a dime.
  
  Although, I do agree that respect has to be earned and not just given for no reason like Phunkie is implying. Just the same as trust has to be earned. Although I believe in the best of people, you should always expect the worst.

  
  
  I've used the insult before, and so has most of the internet. The reason for that is simple: You're a cliche, which is very pathetic.
  
  As another person in this topic has said, the author is extremely slow, and he seems to think he is paid by the word. If you have ever read 'Tale of Two Cities', you'd realize that speed reading and skipping segments is EXACTLY how to get the material at hand.
  
  Honestly, you would never have my respect, nor do I care if you want it or not. A nobody like you really means nothing to anyone else but yourself, and the people close to you. You also do not know me, nor would I care to let you know me, because well... You're honestly very droll.
  
  Indifference tends to be the best approach: Be skeptical, but keep your mouth shut until its been proven otherwise. Your first post was proven wrong, and posts afterwards support my replies, yet you still go on. This means you're trying to mend your wounded pride, or some other useless measure.
  
  I believe in the worst, and allow people to change that opinion. It tends to be much more expediant, as people suck.
  
  

  Quote from Phunkie;44788:

  I respect you, however. I haven't called you silly names and I haven't started attacking yet, 'cause I honestly do not know you. Berating a stranger is never classy.
  
  I reported you though. :hi:
  
  ANYWAY. I don't read as often I would like to. Any good books, guys?

  
  
  Trolls never have class, duh.
  
  I read mostly fantasy and SciFi, so I can only offer some of those:
  
  Raymond E. Feist
  Great author, though it gets slow in parts, and character development is very straight forward. However, all of his books tend to be interesting, and always feed back to the original plot of his original book (He has multiple saga's in his series).
  
  Piers Anthony
  Xanth Full of puns, funny, the first 4-5 books are very interest, as are some of the later ones. However, after a while, they get rather boring.
  
  Incarnations of Immortality is a very intersting series, where 'gods' are humans that take jobs that make them immortal and take upon the powers of the office. Last book in the series is an erotic pornographic novel, which was rather awkward (Can be skipped).
  
  Adept Series is a GREAT series, and is fun to read. The later books get rather boring due to development, but the last book is great.
  
  Mercedes Lackey
  
  Valdemar is a long and interesting series, with several standalone books in it. Its about 'psychic' Heralds who bond with intelligent spiritual Horses, and work to save the Kingdom of Valdemar. If you begin at Magics Price, you'll probalby get interested sooner, however the main character is gay, and some people find that offensive.
  
  The Obsidian Trilogy probably one of the best series I have ever read, and has always kept me interested. Took me a full day to read each book due to wanting to absorb the entire book.
  
  Robert Asprin
  
  Myth Series is a witty comedy series, that focuses on the protagonist Skeeve, who is an awkward magicians apprentice. Development ends up making him the 'strongest' magician across the galaxies.
  
  Jim Bucher
  
  Codex Alrea do not start this series if you're looking for a fast read, because honestly... It is slow, and to get through the full book requires that you speed read, otherwise you get tired of him quickly.
  
  The series starts off about a apprentice Sherpherd named Tavi, who is Furyless (Has no familiars, in a land where every person has a Familiar), and escalates to him getting involved in a barbarian invasion by the Marat, a traitorous High Lord who aims for the Throne, and a traitor Cursor who is out to take his life so that he is unable to warn the king of all that is happening.
  
  Michale Moorcock
  
  Melnibone is interesting, but again tends to be slow at times... Great series, but very difficult to find now.
  
  David Eddings
  
  Belgariad is a very fun and interesting series. It stars around Garion, who starts out working in the scullery, and ends up in a group of adventurers.
  
  Mallorean read this after the Belgariad, to finish the series.
  
  Elenium is a series that focuses on Sparhawk, a Pandion Knight who is also the Queens Champion, who has recently come back from Exile. Story develops that his Queen has been poisoned, and is being prevented from death by the magic trainer of his Knight Order, and they must find a magical jewel (Fyi, every David Eddings series has something to do with a magical stone).
  
  Tamuli is the second series, that begins where the Elenium left off. Don't want to spoil the first series, so I won't give a synopsis of the book.
  
  

  Quote from Paul;44795:

  Takes me a year to finish the first harry potter book. Yay for movies.

  
  
  I wasn't a fan of the Harry Potter series... I read them all, and I read them fairly quickly, and I have to say I expected better for books that got such a rave going about them.
  
  Offtopic: The last movie = utter joke. They just made it to bridge the previous movie, and the next movie. Also 3D? Only the intro was 3D.
  
  

  Quote from starpaw7;44803:

  Well, I do read for enjoyment, though I don't read as much as I used to because of working etc. :what:
  
  I read all of the Redwall books in the time of a few months, and knowing that he makes 1 once a year I'm waiting for more (though I haven't read the most recent one)
  
  If a book has ALOT of text just describing things I might just pick up another book and try to continue later, such as I tried starting the unabridged Hunchback of Notre Dame but up until page 50 or so :died:
  
  Now I'm reading Brave Story (which is about 817 pages), I've had it for a few weeks because I haven't been reading it often, if it was back then I would have finished it in a week @_@

  
  
  I read for enjoyment as well, but I can't enjoy slowly reading a slow book (Would take to long, and I'd never finish it).
  
  I liked the Redwall series, but the characters always seemed to be similiar, and I always got hungry with how they described the food -.-.
  
  The unabridged Notre Dame is horribly boring, and I hated it more than most books.
  
  

  Quote from MiniSoda;44822:

  It would take me a week to read 700 pages x_x
  
  I personally don't read books at all.. I find them boring.
  
  The only book that I actually enjoyed was The Outsiders and Rumble Fish >w>
  
  All the other ones just bore me to death

  
  
  You really just need to find an author/series that is interesting to you.
  
  I find a lot of books boring, but I'll generally read at least one of a series, and let it go if I dislike it, otherwise I'll finish the whole series if it has something to redeem it.
  
  

  Quote from Shirayuki;44860:

  The speed that I read a book really depends on how much I enjoy the book, or if I'm just required to read it. I think the quickest I have done was read around 300~ pages in 2~ hours Dx
  
  /slow

  
  
  Thats faster than most people lol.
  
  I always went as quickly as I could through books in school, as I just don't find the required material interesting. In high school though, my teacher gave us a choice in what we read, and would make exceptions for certain material.
  
  I ended up reading the full works of Yukio Mishima, including most of the untranslated books.
• Mario wrote on 2010-05-26 22:39
  English Book?
• MrShandavio wrote on 2010-05-26 23:06
  As a filmmaker, books bore me. Someone make a thread about movies.
  
  "How fast can you watch a movie" and Forsaken talks about how he can fast-forward through the un-important parts.
  
  aka books n skewl r stoopid
• Shirayuki wrote on 2010-05-26 23:09

  Quote from Forsaken;45034:

  Thats faster than most people lol.
  
  I always went as quickly as I could through books in school, as I just don't find the required material interesting. In high school though, my teacher gave us a choice in what we read, and would make exceptions for certain material.

  
  
  My teachers give us no choice. They just throw the most boring books at us and just expect us to read them, comprehend every aspect of them, then discuss on command D: If my teachers actually allowed us some sort of choice, I would probably enjoy English class and actually fit in with the other Honors kids ;~;
• Forsaken wrote on 2010-05-27 02:12

  Quote from MrShandavio;45075:

  As a filmmaker, books bore me. Someone make a thread about movies.
  
  "How fast can you watch a movie" and Forsaken talks about how he can fast-forward through the un-important parts.
  
  aka books n skewl r stoopid

  
  
  Failtroll is fail.
  
  I'm a filmmaker too, I have all these home videos I made, can I be cool just like you, PL0X?
  
  

  Quote from Shirayuki;45079:

  My teachers give us no choice. They just throw the most boring books at us and just expect us to read them, comprehend every aspect of them, then discuss on command D: If my teachers actually allowed us some sort of choice, I would probably enjoy English class and actually fit in with the other Honors kids ;~;

  
  
  If you're a senior in school, I think most curriculum allow you to choose from a list... Or thats how it was back when I was in high school. Our teacher was just more lenient, and would allow us to choose off the list, as long as we got approval first.
• Lolicon wrote on 2010-05-27 06:24
  I actually got sent to a 'special' class in 4th grade for slow reading. The thing is, I read slow, but I understand the things I read very clearly. Geez, nothing wrong with a bit of scanning @_@
• Forsaken wrote on 2010-05-27 06:55

  Quote from Jerain;45506:

  I actually got sent to a 'special' class in 4th grade for slow reading. The thing is, I read slow, but I understand the things I read very clearly. Geez, nothing wrong with a bit of scanning @_@

  
  
  Most of the time schools put people in special ed, because they're to lazy to deal with them. Just like the kids that get sent there for behavior problems, or for having ADHD, its just laziness, and not wanting to work with the students.
• Virtue wrote on 2010-05-27 15:36

  Quote from Forsaken;45034:

  
  I've used the insult before, and so has most of the internet. The reason for that is simple: You're a cliche, which is very pathetic.
  
  As another person in this topic has said, the author is extremely slow, and he seems to think he is paid by the word. If you have ever read 'Tale of Two Cities', you'd realize that speed reading and skipping segments is EXACTLY how to get the material at hand.
  
  Honestly, you would never have my respect, nor do I care if you want it or not. A nobody like you really means nothing to anyone else but yourself, and the people close to you. You also do not know me, nor would I care to let you know me, because well... You're honestly very droll.
  
  Indifference tends to be the best approach: Be skeptical, but keep your mouth shut until its been proven otherwise. Your first post was proven wrong, and posts afterwards support my replies, yet you still go on. This means you're trying to mend your wounded pride, or some other useless measure.
  
  I believe in the worst, and allow people to change that opinion. It tends to be much more expediant, as people suck.

  
  I thought Arsik told us to drop the petty debate? I guess you're just an autistic retard who has a heart full of DARKNESS like there are so many to deal with.
  
  If you really think and want to act like you are important and that your opinion matters, do so off my board. I do not entertain your existence more than the deletion button you ****ing idiot. MrShandavio, like myself, also completely explained to you why you do not read that fast and you just pulled the troll card again. How predictable.
  
  Grow up, kid. You are also not a speshul snowflake like you seem to think.
  
  On topic: Has anyone read the Stieg Larsson books? I'm not going to expect much of them but I might give them a try if I'm bored. My fastest reading was The Fountainhead in 3 hours. 752 pages.
• Forsaken wrote on 2010-05-27 15:38

  Quote from Sin;45664:

  I thought Arsik told us to drop the petty debate? I guess you're just an autistic retard who has a heart full of DARKNESS like there are so many to deal with.
  
  If you really think and want to act like you are important and that your opinion matters, do so off my board. I do not entertain your existence more than the deletion button you ****ing idiot. MrShandavio, like myself, also completely explained to you why you do not read that fast and you just pulled the troll card again. How predictable.
  
  Grow up, kid. You are also not a speshul snowflake like you seem to think.

  
  
  He said to stay on topic, which I was (Author suggestions to someone).
  
  OT: Re-reading the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice... I forgot how utterly boring 'The Vampire Lestat' can be in parts.
• Virtue wrote on 2010-05-27 15:44

  Quote from Forsaken;45666:

  He said to stay on topic, which I was (Author suggestions to someone).
  
  OT: Re-reading the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice... I forgot how utterly boring 'The Vampire Lestat' can be in parts.

  
  Also to drop the debate. Read his post again.
  
  My post was also on topic, telling how I read The Fountainhead in 3 hours and a book question.
• Cannibal wrote on 2010-05-27 19:53
  I read slow. QQ~
  
  
  
  
  And, you guys should really stop. Neither of you were really on topic, because fighting over staying on topic isn't the topic.
• Chockeh wrote on 2010-05-27 20:02

  Quote from Forsaken;44772:

  
  
  I'm probably worse than Sin, I just don't care to waste my time arguing stupid things. I made the thread because I was curious whether or not there were other people who read fast, and to see if there were actually people who enjoyed reading (Which is rare).
  

  
  I think most people who go to forums enjoy reading. If not, why join in the first place xD. I can only read about 100-200pages (Not manga :D!) in a few hours, then I get tired of reading xD.
• Bankai231 wrote on 2010-05-27 20:11
  Im in the gifted class at school so I can understand things easier in school making me be able to read faster. And reading fast will actually depend on the book. If its good than I will stay focused and read it. If not ill drift and think about other things.
• starpaw7 wrote on 2010-05-27 20:18
  I finsihed Brave Story today (817 pages) :tea:
  
  
  I might continue reading Warriors, since I read all of the ones in 2008; so they came out with about 1~3 new ones. Unless any of you know some good Animal Fiction :what:
  
  
  Besides Animal Farm :stress: