Replying to How Many Books Have You Read?
After finally finishing a book I put off reading by half a year, I started to think about the act: are books fading as an art form with the surge of the Internet and other media? At least in Finland, though literate, roughly 1/5 of boys who finished grade school this year could not pass a simple exam that measured the ability to create text. I've also seen and heard that a regular, young person is way less likely to have read that many books at all compared to past generations.
I've never been a book glutton, no Sir, but after I started thinking how many books I have read,
I came up with 112 books, discounting autobiographies, compulsory reading and factual books.
Is this a small amount, average, large? I know girls who devour books two, three a week, but I want to know from all demographies on NS, what's your number and do you enjoy reading books over something else?
My favourite book of all time is Filth by Irvine Welsh.
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