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>buy lots of books
>start a lot of them
>never finish any of them

>> No.1806798

>reading more than one book at a time

>> No.1806800

>feliz cumpleaños mijo

I LAUGHED MILDLY.

ONTOPIC:

BECAUSE YOU "BUY THEM FOR THE SAKE OF BUYING THEM FOR THE PURPOSE OF READING THEM" INSTEAD OF "BUYING THEM BECAUSE YOU FIND THEM INTERESTING" OR BECAUSE YOU LIKE THE AUTHOR OR WHATEVER. LIKE IF YOU ARE TRYING TO "BECOME SMARTER" BY PAINSTAKINGLY READING COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF BOOKS, WHICH IS REALLY STUPID. DO NOT BE SUCH A SCHMUCK. I DO NOT LIKE YOU VERY MUCH.

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>>1806800

>> No.1806816

>>1806800
fuck.... :/

>> No.1806822

>>1806797
You bought some books.
You helped the industry.

I applaud you.

You will finish the books one day. Or not. Either way, enjoy reading them.

>> No.1806824

>See box set of the Dark Tower
>Was planning to buy them all anyway at some point, and it was cheaper overall
>Read Gunslinger, love it
>Read DotT, wat
>Never finish it
At least it looks nice on my shelf, but damn.

>> No.1806827

>>1806824
>Stopped at Drawing
>Didn't stop at Song of Suzanne

Doing it wrong, nigga. Keep reading.

>> No.1806829

>>1806824
WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUK

You did not want to continue after reading Drawing of the three? A lot of people hail that as the best book in the series. So far I'm on Wolves of the Calla (the fifth one), and the series has been incredible. It's a definite recommendation.

Gunslinger remains my favourite, Wizard and Glass on a close second.

>> No.1806842

>>1806827
>>1806829
I'll probably go back to it at some point, but I didn't like how it set up a world I liked and ditched it. Plus I was genuinely scared for the series when [Actual spoiler:] Roland loses his fingers

This was a couple of years ago when I was a reading weenie, so perhaps it is time to get back up on the horse and try again. Thanks for the motivation.

>> No.1806846

>>1806829
I'm a fan of rambling novella length digressions too.

>> No.1806869

>>1806842

Roland was broken. King nerfed him.

>> No.1806872

>>1806842
So was I buddy, so was I.

King makes it work. Just like he manages to make Suze work despite her little mishap. There are hints at restoration but so far I haven't seen it happen.

You've also missed the best understanding of truth ever written.

>> No.1806879

Bumping to further convince our fallen reader.

http://19-99.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-understanding-of-truth-by-jake.html

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1806890

My un-read books outnumber the books that i've read in my bookshelf

>> No.1806951

There's only 2 (fiction) books I haven't read on my shelf. The Brothers K and HP Lovecraft.

>> No.1806953

Reading habits thread?

I buy lots of books too. I have to acquire a book as soon as possible after I've decided I want to read it or I go crazy.

However, at any given time there is a single "right" book that I feel I should be reading, so when I get a new book I might have to wait before I can read it. The longest I've had a book without reading it was about 4 years.

Sometimes I also read many books at a time (think ~5).

>> No.1806987

I have bought hardly any books that I haven't read.

There might be 10...

I also read pretty much everything I get from the library, or at least everything I start, I finish.

How can you just leave it unfinished :\ can't stand that

>> No.1806999

I hate that picture so much because I can relate to it - still a teenager at 20. >_<

>> No.1807011

For every book I read I buy three. There's no way I will evee catch up my unread books.

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1807026

>select or purchase next read
>finish current book
>go to put it back on shelf/pile
>browse unread books as I do so
>accidentally the whole Brothers Karamazov
>"next read" goes onto the pile

>> No.1807027

>>1806800

shut up...

>> No.1807032

>buy 5 books
>Read three of them
>Instead of starting on the fourth, come home with 2 new books that you read about/found interesting/like the author
>read them instead
>those 2 other books go foreverunread.jpg

I have like 3 books that are like this.

>> No.1807038

We should form an operation of sorts to read ALL of our unread books. And you can't buy new ones before all the unread are read. I hate the remorse I get now when I buy books. It is because of those unfinished ones. Life would be so much simple if I had only one unread book at a time. Why do I do this to myself...

>> No.1807046

I think it's nice to have unread books. It makes it feel like a library, and it's exciting to go to the shelves/stacks and pick one out of many. As long as you're reading at some pace.

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My current pile of unread books, granted I bought the two at the top today so I'm maybe not so bad but still.

>> No.1807063

>read short classics on Project Gutenberg
>feel my bookshelves staring at me

>> No.1807065

>>1807063
NAME SOME OF THEM

>> No.1807075

>>1806797

I used to be like you, until I decided to knuckle down and read all my unread/half-read books. It's going well so far.

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>Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.

>...maybe I'll read this tomorrow.

>> No.1807082

>borrow books from library
>end up returning them without even having read a single page (or if i'm lucky 1/2 through)

>> No.1807083

Ugh, is this what anons think about? rather shallow

>> No.1807123

The guy in OP's photo looks like Brownbear. Is that Brownbear?

>> No.1807136

>>1806797

I finish every book I start, even if it sucks. Once I've invested more than a couple hours in it I feel obligated to.

The only book I didn't do that with was on Buddhism because I realized I knew too little about eastern religions to appreciate the later parts of the book

>> No.1807141

>>1807058
Norwegianbro_

>> No.1807160

>Read half of The Count Of Monte Christo
>Get bored of foreign translated bullshit I can't relate to and stop reading

>Read half of The Idiot
>Get bored of foreign translated bullshit I can't relate to and stop reading

>> No.1807173

>>1807160
>he reads books in translation instead of learning the language

laughingbabushkas.jpg

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>>1807141
Scandinavian brofist

>> No.1807187

>>1807176
Fuck you, Sweden.

Yours,
Finland

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>>1807176
>ESC
Oh, nepotic voting; to the max!!

>> No.1807199

>>1807160
OR MAYBE THE EXCUSE IS NOT BECAUSE IT IS TRANSLATED, BUT THAT YOU'RE JUST A THICK FUCK?

>> No.1807420

>>1806824
>>See box set of the Dark Tower

WHERE? I only ever see Book III available everywhere I go. This pisses me off.

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>>1807187
SPUDRO SPARDE

E/B/IN


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>> No.1807759

that might be the most depressing picture I've ever seen.

>> No.1807901

>buy lots of books
>read at work, while fucking off, shitting, on breaks, etc.
>finish books without major time sink at home