Any other non book readers?

[OREdwardsJR]

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actually I learned it watching a cartoon (if you can believe that), one of my favorites actually.

and what cartoon is this? seriously


LOL, and of course the word's intention is to say that a word is long or polysyllabic.

 

[sworzeh]

The last book I read was Shades of Gray

... nuff said

 

[gettheleadout]

I wish I took the time to read for pleasure more. Hopefully actually buying books I mean to read will impel me...

The first author that came to mind when listing off authors was Jack London. I'm not sure what that says...

 

[Poetic Silence]

I highly recommend Lolita. That book was hauntingly surreal.

 

[Charles Darwin]

I wish I took the time to read for pleasure more. Hopefully actually buying books I mean to read will impel me...

The first author that came to mind when listing off authors was Jack London. I'm not sure what that says...

I bought about 8 or 9 interesting books at the beginning of summer...I'm halfway through 1. 😀

 

[Stumpyman]

I bought about 8 or 9 interesting books at the beginning of summer...I'm halfway through 1. 😀

Same thing for me. Every single summer.

 

[are we ther yet]

OP, I hope you have at least tried some classics; it may be that Harry Potter does not stimulate a desire for reading. My personal favorite book is The Count of Monte Cristo, but I would also say that everyone should read 1984 and A Brave New World.

 

[Poetic Silence]

Anyone read Another Man's War? It's the memoir of an American preacher who became a mercenary in Africa and a protector and provider for the orphaned children who lost their parents to Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army. Many of the children he saved were used in the LRA, itself.

It tears me apart, but the transformation this man made from outlaw biker and drug runner to Christian preacher and ultimately a missionary who had the courage to pick up a gun and make another man's war his own inspires me to do great things in my own journey as a future physician and preacher.

Great book that I think everyone should read to really understand what life in Africa is actually like for the people who live there.

 

[MedPR]

102 days studying for the MCAT = more reading than I've done in the rest of my life combined.

 

[Long Way to Go]

Just read ~40 pages of "Contact" by Carl Sagan, and now I realized I have O-chem stuff to read for the fall. Incredibly short attention span, even though the book is very good thus far.

The fall semester is at least four weeks away. What studying for o-chem could you possibly have to do before the semester even starts?

 

[maybemed2013]

When I saw this post, I know I had to reply.... I never read books including my textbooks and now that I am studying for the MCAT, all the reading has become a hurdle.

 

[aposkaha]

I only read the Textbook and the Newspaper 😛
...oh and Garfield

 

[Stumpyman]

The fall semester is at least four weeks away. What studying for o-chem could you possibly have to do before the semester even starts?

Exactly. I make up a bunch of excuses similar to this (although I am going through the O chem as a second language book beforehand).

 

[littlefurrybugs]

I go to a liberal arts college that requires us to take 4 classes where we read the "great books" from the greek/roman/renaissance times, and the 19th/20th century, like The Odyssey, Dante, Don Quixote, The Prince, the works of Hobbes, Locke, Aristotle, Plato, etc. That pretty much sums up the things that I read them.

I used to read a lot of Jame Patterson in high school though, and I tend to read fanfics too xD

 

[Optimus Lime]

I probably read one new book a week, I guess if you find a book you enjoy then you'll go through them pretty quickly. I imagine for all of you guys you simply haven't found the right kind of books to read.

 

[Camy99]

I learn a great deal from reading novels -- historical fiction is a great way to learn your history if you find textbooks too dry, but literary fiction is an education in human nature, in beauty, in the kind of truth which you can't find under a microscope -- the truth of how people live, how they live together.

Beautiful.

 

[zeppelinpage4]

I only read when a class requires it during the semesters.

Over the summers I sometimes read before going to bed. Honestly, I'm too occupied with listening to music during the bus rides, walks, and all other gaps in the day, so I almost never read in the middle of the day.

 

[Oo Cipher oO]

Do they ask you about books during interviews?

I had one interviewer ask me what the last non-religious book I read for leisure was and what I learned from it.

 

[MrTambourineMan]

I can't recall an interview where I wasn't asked about my favorite book/most recently read book/ non-school books etc.

 

[Charles_Carmichael]

I read the "Song of Ice and Fire" series so far this summer. Half-way through the 5th book right now. Didn't read too much the past couple of years though. I used to read a ton of novels until around sophomore year of college.

 

[MaenadsDance]

I go to a liberal arts college that requires us to take 4 classes where we read the "great books" from the greek/roman/renaissance times, and the 19th/20th century, like The Odyssey, Dante, Don Quixote, The Prince, the works of Hobbes, Locke, Aristotle, Plato, etc. That pretty much sums up the things that I read them.

I used to read a lot of Jame Patterson in high school though, and I tend to read fanfics too xD

A few quick guesses:

Reed? University of Chicago? Yale?