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I've never read Elantris.
Look, I just spent nearly a hundred dollars buying Mistborn, enough money already >:[
I will read these books someday.
Well, The Alloy of Law is at the top of my read-list after I'm done with Changes and The Purifying Fire. Then maybe I'll get to Elantris and Warbreaker.
The Way of Kings will happen eventually, but I dunno when because long books are intimidating lol.
You should move The Way of Kings to first.
You could always buy the version of the book that's split into two. Then it's two regular sized books instead of one giant one.
I remember it took me about a month to read half of it, but as soon as I got to Kaladin in the highstorm, I read the rest in about four hours.
I basically read 400 pages on one day, but stayed up so late that I couldn't focus enough to read more than 50 pages the next day, then the day after that I finished it.
You're assuming my problem with long books is based in logic at all.
When I started reading it, I just couldn't tell what was going on at first, and then I was too unfocused to pay attention, so I was basically picking it up every day, reading a page or two, then putting it back down because I didn't understand what was happening.
Then I got up to the highstorm, and it was cool, so I sat myself down and read the rest of it proper. Then, once I had an idea of what was actually going on, I sat back down and reread it twice the next day, so now I have it like, memorized.
As I said, get the two shorter books.
That's not really any different though. It's not the physical size that I have a problem with, it's the commitment.
But you can just split your time around with it.
Or... no, whatever, okay. Have fun with that.
I don't know what this sentence means.It means you don't have to sit there and read all of it in a day, or even a week.
Not that much actually goes on in the book that requires you to pay a lot of attention. It's the other stuff, the worldbuilding and the hints about other characters, that requires us to pay close attention.
It requires like, no investment to just read the story plain, except for the time.
Well, if I get it from the library I have at most five weeks, though it's hard to imagine it actually taking that long if I get into it.I can't honestly explain why long books turn me off. All I know is that I bought Cryptonomicon well over a year ago, and I've contemplated starting it many times and each time I just decide to read something shorter. It's not sane, or rational, but it's there. I will read TWoK, and Cryptonomicon, eventually. But...I dunno when.
I've been fifty pages into Cryptonomicon for a month or so
I... can't really relate to that, sorry.
I've been reading long, long books since I was eight. I believe I first read one of the Wheel of Time books when I was ten, and even though I didn't get a lot of it, I was done in under a day.
Nowadays, 700+ pages looks normal to me and I can finish two or three a day, and smaller books make me step back and go "Huh, this book is tiny."
tl;dr Carrying books around to read is almost a form of exercise for me
Meanwhile, it's taken me like 3+ years and I still haven't finished one 200 page book... >.>
Started my reread of The Eye of the World.
Dat prologue.
'twas a thing
days remaining: 99
chapters read: 15
total progress: 2.39% complete
reread status: pleasantly ahead of schedule
I'm already up to Lord of Chaos. :P
yeah well maybe you should learn how to forzare
I'm almost at the end of Crime and Punishment, at this point, and I'm wondering: is this a shoddy translation, or was it very close to Dostoevsky's original writing style? Because, while I'm quite liking it, some things about the writing just bug me.
Yeah, I like it enough that I'd probably be willing to drop some money on a different edition. If I'm going to be a good English major, comparing the language of translations is probably as good a pastime as any.
http://www.theoryland.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=7377
Forzare: That sounds plausible, but far from certain. It has a very shaky base, relying on a lot of "He would's" and "He might's" and "This thing might do X's".