What are you Reading Now?

[TheCrystallineEntity]

C.A.: The third book is coming out in November!

 

[DragonOfTheAerie]

Nope, not at all. What I find depressing is I will die before I get everything I want to write written, sort of the David Bowie story.

I don't feel the need to read, I feel the need to create.

Aren't they kind of necessary to each other?

But I feel depressed about that too ^

 

[TheCrystallineEntity]

^I, unfortunately or fortunately, read very fast and can remember whole passages of text. I read the second Stormlight book in about three days [1,000 pages].

 

[DragonOfTheAerie]

^I, unfortunately or fortunately, read very fast and can remember whole passages of text. I read the second Stormlight book in about three days [1,000 pages].

I've read up to 450 pages in a day at times, when the book is really good, and when I have time. I'm something of a speed reader. However, my reading speed decreases drastically when the book im reading is boring.

 

[Demesnedenoir]

I don't count reading my own work as reading. I read books, but I'm far from obsessive, too much life out there. But then, I don't really find not getting all my books done all that depressing, just an occassional "drat it all". I prefer to just give a whistle when dangling from the crucifix. Cheer up Brian!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep9Vzb6R_58

Aren't they kind of necessary to each other?

But I feel depressed about that too ^

 

[Chessie]

I'm reading Mail-Order Bride Westward Bound: Fortunes. It's pretty good. Adding a new author to my collection.

 

[DragonOfTheAerie]

I don't count reading my own work as reading. I read books, but I'm far from obsessive, too much life out there. But then, I don't really find not getting all my books done all that depressing, just an occassional "drat it all". I prefer to just give a whistle when dangling from the crucifix. Cheer up Brian!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep9Vzb6R_58

haha, I'd seen that clip before. Hilarious.

 

[TheCrystallineEntity]

I'm rereading The Infernal Devices yet again. It's so markedly different from what I usually read, that I feel almost guilty reading it, never mind liking it, and so I tend to mock it or say that it's not well-written or whatever.

 

[C. A. Stanley]

^I, unfortunately or fortunately, read very fast and can remember whole passages of text. I read the second Stormlight book in about three days [1,000 pages].

I would say fortunately... If you don't sacrifice comprehension for speed, it's a great thing! Unless of course you enjoy a book so much that you don't want it to end... Then you're screwed lol

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[C. A. Stanley]

C.A.: The third book is coming out in November!

I cannot wait! I have to admit, it feels so good knowing there will be 7 more after it... I'm not looking forward to 7 more waits though [emoji17]

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[TheCrystallineEntity]

*sputters incoherently* SEVEN?!?!?! That'll be over 7,000 words! Is Brandon Sanderson going to be writing while ninety or something???

 

[C. A. Stanley]

*sputters incoherently* SEVEN?!?!?! That'll be over 7,000 words! Is Brandon Sanderson going to be writing while ninety or something???

7,000 words? *pages aha. Yeah Stormlight Archive is a planned 10 book series (10 is the magic number ). As fantasy authors go, he's a speedy one

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[C. A. Stanley]

I've read up to 450 pages in a day at times, when the book is really good, and when I have time. I'm something of a speed reader. However, my reading speed decreases drastically when the book im reading is boring.

I'm ashamed to admit I don't know my reading speed, not even an estimate :frown2: But I do know my reading speed is also significantly reduced when reading something boring (though that's normal I guess, Dragon?) or something mind-boggling... Kafka I'm looking at you!

 

[FifthView]

Brandon Sanderson has said he shoots for about 1 book per year. But he's also said that he typically does a lot of drafts for each book: "it comes out to be at least eight to twelve times through the book before it’s published." And of course, his books are huge. Somehow he manages doing those podcasts, attending various conferences...The guy's insane. I think he also has a personal assistant who helps.

 

[Mythopoet]

^I, unfortunately or fortunately, read very fast and can remember whole passages of text. I read the second Stormlight book in about three days [1,000 pages].

I used to be able to do that before I started having kids.

 

[C. A. Stanley]

Brandon Sanderson has said he shoots for about 1 book per year. But he's also said that he typically does a lot of drafts for each book: "it comes out to be at least eight to twelve times through the book before it’s published." And of course, his books are huge. Somehow he manages doing those podcasts, attending various conferences...The guy's insane. I think he also has a personal assistant who helps.

Doesn't he teach creative writing at Brigham Uni too? The man is INDUSTRIOUS to say the least! And I'm pretty sure he didn't start getting things officially published until 2005, so only 12 years to date. The amount of quality stuff he's put out there in that time is incredible

 

[Chessie]

Her Strict Plumber (1940's romance) and Her Bastard Bridegroom (medieval fantasy). Yeah, yeah. I need passion and fire in my romance books, ok? I'm so tired of getting ripped off by either what should be labeled as Y.A. fiction and erotica (neither of which I read, I'm somewhere in between). I blame Amazon, not the authors. I like my stories on the delicious side, not yippity clean or highly indulgent, but I digress.

 

[bestellen]

Can some one tell me what the point of all that absurdly perverted crud is?

 

[Russ]

Can some one tell me what the point of all that absurdly perverted crud is?

Excuse me? I am not certain which works your question is referring to. Perhaps you could make it a tad clearer.

 

[Chessie]

Can some one tell me what the point of all that absurdly perverted crud is?

Lol They're just books. And they're far from perverted. It's romance, not erotica. Two entirely different things.