How fast do you read?

• Chockeh wrote on 2010-05-27 20:22

  Quote from starpaw7;45798:

  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:

  When I was younger, Animorphs was pretty cool. But then again, it's a bit more for tweens.
• starpaw7 wrote on 2010-05-27 20:30
  I read alot of those, but then I found out she stopped making them back in 2001 :T_T:
  
  I usually like Animal Fiction that has the whole cast as animals, most of the time personifying, or with their own little microcosm :glare:
• Iyasenu wrote on 2010-05-27 23:50
  earlier this senior year i read...
  well, the whole Percy Jackson series. xD
  
  Not all at once :|
  
  Our school didn't even have the last 2 books and that was a week apiece waiting for them to get them in xD
  
  but i really liked reading them :o
  
  i didn't read any except the last book in one sitting.
  and that last book took me...
  a long time xD
  i started it ~ when i got home at 4 and read it til 1am xD
  ... maybe it wasn't in one sitting, but I'm counting breaks for eating too xD
  
  i just liked that series a lot
  the only other books i can think that i read in one sitting was... the Seer and the Sword, and The Secret Life of Bees.
  
  all of these books were for enjoyment and i looooooooooooooooooooooooved them :T_T:
  I read the secret life of bees while laying on the floor in my room, and the seer and the sword while being driven to Austin to see my cousin's new house xD
  
  but I guess i read... SLOW!
  I find myself rereading sentences either because my eyes are tired or because of something really good or emotional happening in the story (D: Poor May! That was so sad!)
  
  but i like reading, i'm just not fast xD
• Shironi wrote on 2010-05-28 08:44

  Quote from starpaw7;45798:

  
  
  Besides Animal Farm :stress:

  
  
  
  Hahahahahaha ..... T.T
  English exams in a week, and our class is doing Animal Farm. God I hate it already. I can't believe how Orwell managed to put so much symbolism in there we wrote so many essays on it already.
  
  Anyways, I tend to skim read, which means I skip out quite a few important bits, a habit which I'm trying to stop, but rather unsuccessful so far.
• Sarinii wrote on 2010-05-28 09:10

  Quote from Iyasenu;46032:

  earlier this senior year i read...
  well, the whole Percy Jackson series. xD
  
  Not all at once :|
  
  Our school didn't even have the last 2 books and that was a week apiece waiting for them to get them in xD
  
  but i really liked reading them :o
  
  i didn't read any except the last book in one sitting.
  and that last book took me...
  a long time xD
  i started it ~ when i got home at 4 and read it til 1am xD
  ... maybe it wasn't in one sitting, but I'm counting breaks for eating too xD
  
  i just liked that series a lot
  the only other books i can think that i read in one sitting was... the Seer and the Sword, and The Secret Life of Bees.
  
  all of these books were for enjoyment and i looooooooooooooooooooooooved them :T_T:
  I read the secret life of bees while laying on the floor in my room, and the seer and the sword while being driven to Austin to see my cousin's new house xD
  
  but I guess i read... SLOW!
  I find myself rereading sentences either because my eyes are tired or because of something really good or emotional happening in the story (D: Poor May! That was so sad!)
  
  but i like reading, i'm just not fast xD

  
  
  I haven't read Harry Potter or Percy Jackson. They're both incredibly famous at my school, esp. Harry Potter, because our uniform literally looks like Gryffindor's. LITERALLY. Minus the cloaks, of course. (And we don't have black or red, just brown, gold, and white)
  I read 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'The Boleyn Inheritance' (Philippa Gregory) in seperate sessions over the course of a week. I'm guessing it took me 4-6 hours to read one, but i didn't read it all in one sitting either because it was too much to take in, or my mum told me to stop reading because i was slowly killing my eyes. I was able to read relatively long books in one sitting when i was younger, and not have any side effects other than slightly sore eyes, but now i get killer headaches and drowsiness from reading. And then it also depends on what i'm reading, because a book like 'A short history of nearly everything' by Bill Bryson will take me AGES to read compared to something like 'Dragon Keeper' by Carole Wilkinson because of the length of the books AND the subject matter. I started Bill Bryson's book ages ago but i haven't finished it yet because i read it between long intervals (months, literally) and it's FAR too much to read at once. It's a great book, but i can't read it at once.
  
  So, let's say i read at a slightly higher than average, but moderate pace.