Reading on the tracks
March 13th 2007 10:03
Did you know how much you can read on the trains, in train stations waiting for the trains and in between changing trains? I never knew. I see all these peopledaily, reading on the trains and I, an otherwise voracious reader, would just morosely stare at them. (By the way, I am particularly impressed by those who read while standing, without even leaning on one of those rods. I can barely stand still in a train and am always falling and tripping over people. How you can read while standing in a moving traing is beyond my comprehension.)
I started a resonably sized novel yesterday and I read only on train trips to office and back and in my 10-minute breaks at work and golly, I have already finished half the novel in two days! It's not about reading speed. Obviously, I can be a very fast reader but I am not a disciplined reader. I can finish Harry Potter tomes in a straight sitting of 7-8 hours and other books that I've liked maybe in a day but if the book doesn't catch my fancy I'd take eons to finish it. I know this is supposed to be normal but you never know. A "good" reader is supposed to care for culture and all that and probably should do reading for its own sake and not for kicks. And I have thrown away some greatest classics of the world after reading just a couple of pages. That's me.
Last month or so, I have skipped reading novels because I was reading up all this recondite stuff. Which did not leave me nearly enough time to read novels and somehow I was disenchanted with fiction in general. Still if I had known that one could read so much in between bouts of madness at work, I would have finished off so many tomes by now.
Will dash off a review tomorrow when I finish the novel.
I started a resonably sized novel yesterday and I read only on train trips to office and back and in my 10-minute breaks at work and golly, I have already finished half the novel in two days! It's not about reading speed. Obviously, I can be a very fast reader but I am not a disciplined reader. I can finish Harry Potter tomes in a straight sitting of 7-8 hours and other books that I've liked maybe in a day but if the book doesn't catch my fancy I'd take eons to finish it. I know this is supposed to be normal but you never know. A "good" reader is supposed to care for culture and all that and probably should do reading for its own sake and not for kicks. And I have thrown away some greatest classics of the world after reading just a couple of pages. That's me.
Last month or so, I have skipped reading novels because I was reading up all this recondite stuff. Which did not leave me nearly enough time to read novels and somehow I was disenchanted with fiction in general. Still if I had known that one could read so much in between bouts of madness at work, I would have finished off so many tomes by now.
Will dash off a review tomorrow when I finish the novel.
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