How do you read?

DeadChannel · 12-09-2014, 11:36 PM

With whom?

Zhanteimi · 12-10-2014, 02:47 AM

My wife, a skilled orator and actress, reads aloud, for me privately. And sometimes for the children when they want a story.

Josef K · 12-10-2014, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Machine

I used to read really really fast, but now I've learned to only read a little at a time makes the book last for me. I'm reading the Fountainhead and after a few weeks I'm only halfway through chapter 4.

**Frownland** · 12-10-2014, 03:55 PM

It really is a beautiful novel though, philosophy aside.

Chula Vista · 12-10-2014, 03:56 PM

As long as he doesn't move on to Atlas Shrugged....

Josef K · 12-10-2014, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

It really is a beautiful novel though, philosophy aside.

I don't know that you can separate it from the philosophy, and even if you can I disagree - her writing is awful. I think it appeals to people my age and a little older of above-average intelligence because it tells them they're special and that other people only want to drag them down, and I'm glad it's not a phase I've ever had.

**Frownland** · 12-10-2014, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Josef K

I don't know that you can separate it from the philosophy, and even if you can I disagree - her writing is awful. I think it appeals to people my age and a little older of above-average intelligence because it tells them they're special and that other people only want to drag them down, and I'm glad it's not a phase I've ever had.

Well, to each their own I guess. I was able to look past the philosophy and enjoy the vivid imagery of the novel.

Machine · 12-10-2014, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Well, to each their own I guess. I was able to look past the philosophy and enjoy the vivid imagery of the novel.

Her imagery is what really gets me into the book for sure.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 12-10-2014, 08:56 PM

my ADD makes reading slower cause i constantly start thinking about other ****. sometimes i will be saying the words im reading in my head but not paying attention to them and actually thinking about something else, then i will have to backtrack and re-read that section to get it.

i generally do like reading though.. but it has to be the right kind of writing. i like a lot of 20th century stuff... hemingway, steinbeck, bukowski, philip k dick, etc.. and i can even **** with some older stuff to a certain extent like a few poe stories and whatnot... but generally speaking i have a harder time with stuff that is really old. even dickens and stuff like that can be a bit boring to me. i remember some of the stuff they made us read in high school was absolute torture to me. beowulf and shakespeare and that kind of ****... can't do it, man.

i did start reading the iliad though and i liked it. especially the part where zeus was telling his woman hera to slow her role like "look bitch, i tell you the things i think you can handle and the rest is for me to worry about." zeus knows how to keep his pimp hand strong.

DeadChannel · 12-10-2014, 09:50 PM

Ayn Rand did have talent, her prose is good, but I do tend to find her detestable.

12-10-2014, 03:55 PM	#24 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	It really is a beautiful novel though, philosophy aside. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

12-10-2014, 03:56 PM	#25 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	As long as he doesn't move on to Atlas Shrugged.... __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

12-09-2014, 11:36 PM	#21 (permalink)
DeadChannel Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Canada Posts: 1,259	With whom?

12-10-2014, 02:47 AM	#22 (permalink)
Zhanteimi Mord Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Tokyo Posts: 4,874	My wife, a skilled orator and actress, reads aloud, for me privately. And sometimes for the children when they want a story.

12-10-2014, 08:56 PM	#29 (permalink)
~~John Wilkes Booth~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 2,235	my ADD makes reading slower cause i constantly start thinking about other **. sometimes i will be saying the words im reading in my head but not paying attention to them and actually thinking about something else, then i will have to backtrack and re-read that section to get it. i generally do like reading though.. but it has to be the right kind of writing. i like a lot of 20th century stuff... hemingway, steinbeck, bukowski, philip k dick, etc.. and i can even with some older stuff to a certain extent like a few poe stories and whatnot... but generally speaking i have a harder time with stuff that is really old. even dickens and stuff like that can be a bit boring to me. i remember some of the stuff they made us read in high school was absolute torture to me. beowulf and shakespeare and that kind of **... can't do it, man. i did start reading the iliad though and i liked it. especially the part where zeus was telling his woman hera to slow her role like "look bitch, i tell you the things i think you can handle and the rest is for me to worry about." zeus knows how to keep his pimp hand strong.

12-10-2014, 09:50 PM	#30 (permalink)
DeadChannel Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Canada Posts: 1,259	Ayn Rand did have talent, her prose is good, but I do tend to find her detestable.