You are reading a book that you are enjoying a lot. Do you...

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...read it as fast as you can, whenever you get a minute to pick it up, because it's so good and you want to keep reading it? Or do you ration it out, making sure to indulge in other activities and chores so that it will last longer?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

The former until I get to the last 50 pages or so, and then the latter because I don't want it to end.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

I always feel a certain sadness when I come to the end of the novels that have meant the most to me. It's a strange feeling, because most novels that I love I'll come to the end of and I've thought, "What a corker! Great way to end, the perfect length!" But this other handful of novels, I'll get to the last few pages and I'm thinking, "No, no, keep at it!" But they end.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I wish I had the discipline to do more of the latter -- but then again I also wish I could read every book on earth that I would like before I die, so even in the middle of books that just cream me part of me is thinking "so many books! must find out what pleasures that next cover hides!"

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I totally go for it and read it all at once. There is no satisfaction for me in slowing things down. Unlike, er...

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

I always feel a certain sadness when I come to the end of the novels that have meant the most to me.

Such sweet sorrow.

I've been known to spend entire sunny weekends unbathed and in bed simply because I can think of nothing I would rather do than continue reading a particularly good book.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

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