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- From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
- Subject: Re: 92 in rabreview
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.022551.17233@netcom.com>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:25:51 GMT
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- yarnot@babbage.csus.edu (Jan Yarnot):
- >>>I've had an eventful r.a.b. year. I read some 220 books...
- >>
- >>Whether I'm way over that or Not Even Close depends on what counts
- >>as having read a book. Does schlock sf count? Does rereading favorite
- >>schlock (sf and other genres) count?
-
- >Yes of course, yes of course...
-
- I'd say 'yes', but not 'of course' for the latter. If I'm rereading
- a book I read years ago, that's one thing. If I read a new book and
- then immediately turn to page one and reread it, some might argue that
- this should count as a single slow read.
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- The main problem with rereads is that it measures what you've put into
- your reading, but not what you've gotten out of your reading. So you
- probably benefit more from 220 books than I do from twice as many.
-
- >>Do children's books count? How about graphic novels?
-
- >...*comic books*???? You're kidding, right?
-
- Not comic books, graphic novels. A good graphic novel will take longer
- to read than most books. (Yes, most graphic novels are collections of
- a run of comic book.) But I agree that they shouldn't count anyhow.
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- Dani Zweig
- dani@netcom.com
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- Roses red and violets blew
- and all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew -- Edmund Spenser
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