I've been reading the same two novels for three months. Dresier's "Sister Carrie" and Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers." I'm almost done with the former and but only read about a third into PP. It's not that I'm not interested in these novels but that I can't really seem to find the time to seriously dig into them. Does this happen to you?
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
I'm currently trying to read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, and I'm enjoying it for the most part. But it's hard to give it its due when the only reading time I can find these days is on bathroom breaks and the rare asocial lunch break.
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
Actually, ever since I moved to PA I've had to make time for reading. When I lived in Baltimore City and could take the subway to work, I got a good hour to hour-and-a-half of reading in every day.
Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
Yeah, it happens to me. I seem to go through phases. Sometimes I'm reading everything I can get my hands on, and other times I can barely finish. I'm in the middle of about four books right now, I think. Just lost interest and didn't feel like finishing. I'm lucky in that I have a good memory, so when I do feel like reading again, I can just pick them up and continue where I left off.
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
I blame school on my reading slumps, mainly because I have way too much school reading to do any recreational reading. Back in early August, I finished off book 2 of the Wheel of Time series and started book 3. I got about half way through it before school started. Since then, I haven't touched the book. It's unfortunate, but *shrugs* it happens.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
My "reading slumps" consist of reading Tom Clancy and John Grisham novels, kind of like wearing sweats and a stained t-shirt around the house all day.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
quote:Originally posted by pfresh85: I blame school on my reading slumps, mainly because I have way too much school reading to do any recreational reading. Back in early August, I finished off book 2 of the Wheel of Time series and started book 3. I got about half way through it before school started. Since then, I haven't touched the book. It's unfortunate, but *shrugs* it happens.
Yah yah, that happens to me too. I had finally finished Seventh Son and was reading Red Prophet when the semester started. I haven't touched anything other than school reading since then. I've dropped a class though, so I might pick non-school reading back up as I have a lot more time. The class assigned an extremely large amount of reading between Tuesday/Thursday which made it impossible to keep up with once you got behind, which I did due to a retreat I had to go on.
Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
*agrees with afr*
Sometimes you just have to chill. Just reading your reading choices made me slump. I've always found that a idiotic page-turner puts me back in the mood for the deeper stuff.
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Posted by Heffaji (Member # 3669) on :
I've been in a reading funk too as the school year has begun. But now that A Feast for Crows is coming out, I think I'll be getting back into things a bit. Gotta catch up on all the backstory again.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Call me nuts, but I just adore Theodore Dreiser, and "Sister Carrie" is my favorite of all his books.
Dickens, well, I can read him, but, like a lot of Victorians, I get the impression that he was being paid by the word. There are times when he is outstanding, but others when there are just too many words! And surprising plot devices and coincidences. You just want to say, "Now cut that out, Chuck."
And as long as we are talking about Victorians who are paid by the word, can somebody pull the plug on Alfred Tennyson? He goes on so long that he forgets what he was talking about at the beginning of his poems.
Posted by ambyr (Member # 7616) on :
I'm trying to read Octavia E. Butler's latest but finding it almost impossible to get into. If it were anyone else, I'd just say it wasn't a great book, but Butler's never failed to grab me before, so I feel like in some way it must be my fault.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I thought that about Hart's Hope, by Card, years ago, but it grabbed me later than most books do. I actually put it down in disgust after reading the first chapter or so....but when I read it a second time I realize the very things that I ahted were what made that story work.
Butler is great, so keep reading and give her the chance to suprise you. Posted by ambyr (Member # 7616) on :
Have you read Fledgling, Kwea? I just finished it last night, but I can't find anyone to talk about it with.
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I've always found that a idiotic page-turner puts me back in the mood for the deeper stuff.