[dendol]

sometimes i get bogged down with the current book/series that im reading and have a really strong urge to start another book. Not that the current book im reading is crap or anything (book2, coldfire trilogy), but i get bored easily and my to-read pile is always calling to me, so I find it increasingly more difficult to hold out..

although im someone who has to read a book til its end - exception is Chronicles of TC, but lets not start on that topic http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif - im worried that i'll start something new and never go back to the old one!

does anyone else have this problem? is a solution to this urge simply to stop stacking up my to-read pile? or is this something more common that i think cos ive read before that some of you's read multiple books at a time and seem to have no problems..

[Cadfael]

I read 2 books at once... I normally have a book for home... and another book to read at work.

The book I have at work is usually 'light' reading in the style of 'Dragonlance' or 'Forgotten Realms'

[Lord Soth]

Becuase I move around alot it's not unusual for me to end up reading three or four books at a time as i leave them at friends houses and things like that.

That said if the books long and convoluted like any of the ASoFaI books I'll just read the one.

[Barbarossa]

I occasionally read more than one book at a time. Especially if I read a non fiction book, I usually read a fiction book at the same time.

[sanclemente99]

I always have one or two non-fiction books and one fiction going at once. I've tried having two fiction books going at one time, but that hasn't worked for me.

But I find it very difficult to read two books at once. Holding them both open at the same time is a challenge, and I get motion sick moving my eyes back and forth from one page to the other every word. Plus, the stories tend to get a little weird. Say I'm reading a book on making organic produce appealing in the market:

"What that overripe melon has outside covering itself: seemingly free transparent fishnet."

and a story of the cause of the dismissal of a seamstress in a blouse factory from eating a petite fours:

"Seems her luscious delight slipped her hand to burst over sheer cloth."

I got this when I read them together:

"What Seems that her overripe luscious melon delight has slipped outside her covering hand itself to seemingly burst free over transparent sheer fishnet cloth."

Hmmm. Perhaps I should read two books at once more often. http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif


[This message has been edited by sanclemente99 (edited August 28, 2001).]

[Shehzad]

Hmmm.. never dreamt that organic produce could be so exciting.

[DarthV]

I've gotten into the habit of reading during my lunch here at work... So to kill 45 minutes a day, I've decided to bring in some reading material. I'm going to stick to stuff I've already read or at least to books that have shorter sections so I don't get peeved when I have to set them aside once lunch is over.

[dendol]

thanks for the replies guys, esp sanclemente99.. hahaha, love your work mate!

just for the record, i tried starting another book but couldnt get past the first few pages.. something about leaving another book unfinished...

by the by, has any body read any chris bunch?

[e-Morgana]

You'd better brace yourself for heaps of sex and fighting if you're going to get into Chris Bunch (In the Seer King series anyway). If you enjoy that - go for it. I found it a bit laughable after a while.

[Rhaegar]

I find myself getting bogged down in Donaldson's The One Tree. Sometimes things get so psychoanalytical that it becomes less than captivating reading. I have a copy of Steven Erikson's Gardens of the Moon on my bookshelf and it sometimes seems to call me "Read me, read me!". I'm tempted to start it, even when I'm still reading Donaldson. What's a guy to do?