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    Got the Keef biog for Xmas (the one before last)...and Brian Jones is still alive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Not_the_DJ View Post
    Got the Keef biog for Xmas (the one before last)...and Brian Jones is still alive.
    he probably is in Keef's mind
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    Varies immensely on the book. Sometimes I'll fire through a book im really enjoying in a few days other times it'll take me weeks.

    I mostly read epic sci-fi / fantasy so I guess theyre usually pretty long.
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    Moby Dick about 3 years - I loved the imagery.
    Transactional Analysis Books - I never put them down, I start them over again.
    Sci-Fi a few days.
    Biogs - a week or two
    Classics - I usually get bored - someone has distilled all the good stuff down in something derivative decades ago... (just kidding - check your blood pressure)
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    Depends on the book really. I raced through the latest Stuart Macbride in a couple of days. I've had Billy Conolly's Route 66 on the go since Xmas. I still haven't read more than three chapters of Titus Groan in 15 years.
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    the amount of books I read in a year is directly related to how rainy it is when I'm on holiday.

    Otherwise takes me weeks to get through a book based on just reading the odd chapter on public transport. I almost never read a book at home.
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    Depends on the book. A lightish novel can be done in a matter of hours. Heavy literature or pholosophy takes a lot longer as I have to digest it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by frankus View Post
    Transactional Analysis Books - I never put them down, I start them over again.
    As in concurrent distributed systems? I'm studying that very topic right now if you have any recommendations
    EDIT: gah, wiki says psychology stuff, nvm

    As for me, it depends massively on the size of the book and how much I enjoy it, also what time I have available. Camus' The Outsider took me a sunny afternoon, LOTR trilogy about a year I think
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