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offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2009-01-08 06:05 [#02263087]
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get read beyond the first chapter


 

offline gingaling from Scamworth (Burkina Faso) on 2009-01-08 06:08 [#02263088]
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...really?


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2009-01-08 06:09 [#02263089]
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books are too clevah


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2009-01-08 06:13 [#02263092]
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true story

well statistically speaking


 

offline freqy on 2009-01-08 06:20 [#02263094]
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yeah but they don't know that cause they didn't read all the
information in the report , they just assumed cause they
only got to the end of the first chapter that everyone else
does the same and went to the off license for a 4 pack of
larger.


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2009-01-08 06:26 [#02263100]
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lol


 

offline BoxBob-K23 from Finland on 2009-01-08 07:41 [#02263104]
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that's why libraries are such a good invention...

i mean, sure, it's good to own some essential books that you
really love or need, but for the rest, there's the public
catalogue that everybody can use. It's a great thing!


 

offline freqy on 2009-01-08 07:46 [#02263105]
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i wonder what percentage of this thrad has been read!?



 

offline -crazone from smashing acid over and over on 2009-01-08 08:03 [#02263113]
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what helps is bying books you really want to read. So think
before buying, it helps me. I do the same with vynil now.
And this saves me a lot of money!


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2009-01-08 08:31 [#02263119]
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That's cuz everyone needs a present. Birthday, christmas,
urine day, some of those gifts are books. no one wants to
read that shit, bitch, shit.


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2009-01-08 08:31 [#02263120]
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you're shitting right mate


 

offline freqy on 2009-01-08 08:32 [#02263121]
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sorry crazone i got to the bit y typed about "buying books"
and fell asleep at the keyboard,

only kidding :)



 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2009-01-08 08:33 [#02263122]
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there's a difference between 'bying' and 'buying'


 

offline oxygenfad from www.oxygenfad.com (Canada) on 2009-01-08 10:43 [#02263160]
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HA! Awesome stat, whats the source ?


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2009-01-08 11:46 [#02263173]
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it's actually from a book i'm reading lol


 

offline Sandy from Morocco (Morocco) on 2009-01-08 12:12 [#02263178]
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Is it in the first chapter?


 

offline cx from Norway on 2009-01-08 12:14 [#02263179]
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it sounds like a weird statistic tbh..



 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2009-01-08 12:22 [#02263181]
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i can easily believe it considering the number of unread
books in view of me now


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-01-08 13:20 [#02263188]
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i believe it

probably because people usually buy books on reccomendation
instead of seeking them out on their own and trying a bunch
out. i went through page 1 of neuromancer all the way to the
end like a cruise missile,, where as in those Kovacs novels
and Snow Crash it took me a little bit longer. "altered
carbon" i didn't even finish, that book was just so boring.
every sentence just so BORING

tons of people reccomended me books by neale donald walsch
over 2007-2008 and i hated that stuff. good message but
pretty poorly written, i couldnt relate to it. then i got
into u.g. krishnamurti and not only is that stuff freely
availible but it's a lot better in my opinion....


 

offline DirtyPriest from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2009-01-08 14:19 [#02263221]
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It sounds like bullshit statistic. They probably count the
first chapter as some sort of average percantage of the
book, and count dictionaries, encyclopedias and other
refference books as well.


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2009-01-08 14:22 [#02263222]
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it's probably harder for you to believe because you're from
denmark


 

offline DirtyPriest from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2009-01-08 14:32 [#02263225]
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Perhaps that is true. I just glanced at my shelves, and i
could only spot 3 books that i had not read from cover to
cover. Ofcourse there was only 5 to begin with.


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2009-01-08 16:19 [#02263249]
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I have a fair few books on my shelves I haven't read. I'd
say of all the books I've started I've finished about...
70%? I'm well pleased with myself for having finished Iain
Banks' The Crow Road after buying it like six years ago, and
ending up reading it over a mate's house.

I'd say I only paid for about 10% of the last 20 books I've
read too


 

offline Torture Garden from Feelin' 2Pacish on 2009-01-09 05:51 [#02263364]
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I always finish what I start. It's 'cos I'm a bad
muthafucka. Stay in school.


 


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