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eric feng wrote:
My valuable spare time is for game not reading.
I couldn't go a week without reading a book. Reading is my favourite lesiure activity.
Michael
CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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I read:
- the news (online)
- news and discussion forums linked to my hobbies (airsoft, music, film)
- the community forums on the Code Project
- IM discussions with my friends
All of those are read from a computer screen. About 4-5 hours a day, usually interlaced with my work. I subscribe to just one printed magazine, which I flick through for about thirty minutes a month. My only regular printed reading is my mail each morning. I will read two or three novels in a year. I used to read a lot more (when I was 12 I would read 2-3 adult novels* a week), but I have found the gap those used to fill is getting less and less. Yet despite the fact most of my reading is from a computer screen I still have to print educational text (i.e. articles on the Code Project) off and read it from paper.
* you know what I mean
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David Wulff wrote:
when I was 12 I would read 2-3 adult novels* a week
No I don't know what you mean, Dave. 
<italic>Work hard, Work effectively.
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I love reading good books. I also read science mags etc for pleasure. However I have to ration my book reading because it can become an obsession, and I miss out on sleep just to carry on reading.
However at the start of this year, I started doing Sudoku puzzles, and haven't been able to stop. The amount of time that I spent reading books has gone way down. I try keep doing just two puzzles a day, in order to give me time to do other things, but they have to be the fiendish ones, otherwise I don't get so much of a buzz. Oh well.
I expect that when the new Harry Potter comes out, that will stop my puzzle playing for a few days.
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Harry Potter? 
I thought that was for kids! 
Cheers,
Vikram.
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"It's like hitting water with your fist. There's all sorts of motion and noise at impact, and no impression left whatsoever shortly thereafter." - gantww.
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Not hardly. I just finished reading the first five books; my daughter has been bugging me to read them for a while. They're really good.
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Most adults I talked to that got through the first 50 pages of Harry Potter wanted to read all the books. Apparently quite engaging. I certainly enjoy the movies, and my wife says the books are even better.
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I'm re-reading the set for the 3rd time (since December) in anticipation of/preparation for the release of the 6th book next weekend.
Although, I must confess that this time around I watched the 3 movies on DVD, then read the 4th book and am currently working on the 5th.
Other books I tend to read over and over again include The Hobbit/LOTR, and the Chronicles of Narnia. (Yeah, I know, really kids' books. But I can read all 7 books in about a week.)
Grim (aka Toby) MCDBA, MCSD, MCP+SB
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The books are easy reads. One thing I noticed is that Rowling writes such that the target audience of the reader matches the age of the main character. The first couple of books are shorter and light in tone. The 'violence' per se is mild. The later books are more emotionally intense, there's a darker note to them, and the action and situations require a more mature viewpoint from the reader.
Thus far, they've done an excellent job of translating from the books to the movies. I saw the movies first, and then read the books. In general, they trimmed minor scenes or subplots from the books without affecting the storyline. It's amazing how well they've recreated settings in the books in the movies.
Take all of this with a grain of salt; after all, I still like to reread Robert Heinlein's juvenile novels occasionally  .
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do you read in your leisure time? I reads newspaper, management books, and e-news(like CNN)(is this counts? The question doesn't mention paper/paperless reading)
<italic>Work hard, Work effectively.
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Ehm... non-work related, so I think management books don't count.
I'm more a fantasy/horror fan myself.
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Raymond E. Feist books mostly
WM.
What about weapons of mass-construction?
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Management books is work related, but I don't use it for my work.
<italic>Work hard, Work effectively.
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I mainly read books in my leisure time, with the ocassional magazine thrown in when my subscription arrives. (Private Eye[^] is one of the better ones I subscribe to)
Michael
CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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I don't treat newspapers and magazines as reading... Except them I like fantasy and sci-fi. I cannot imagine myself without good books 
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Renny1 wrote:
I don't treat newspapers and magazines as reading
So what do you do with them, watch them, listen them, or... 
<italic>Work hard, Work effectively.
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every civilezed human reads some kind of news so there's no reason to ask.
btw. my nonwork favorites are scifi and naturalism
v.nrg (@ energized.sk/~vnrg)
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I had no time to read some nonmanagement books. But i reads newspapers on new web site.
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Mostly magazines - non-work stuff like Cat Fancy, the Planetary Report, Motor Watch (formerly Nutz and Boltz), and some other random stuff. As for books - well I am trying to make it through "How to Win Friends and Influence People" - I surely need it.
I also enjoy parodies of best-sellers, such as "Who Cut the Cheese" (obviously a parody of "Who Moved My Cheese").
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
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Fiction, fiction and more fiction.
regards,
Paul Watson
South Africa
PMW Photography
Gary Wheeler wrote:
It's people like you that keep me heading for my big debut on CNN...
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Paul Watson wrote:
Fiction, fiction and more fiction.
90% of my reading is fiction, but I do like to read a biography now and again. Plus I liked to read psychology and sociology related books, although those do tend to cross between my work and lesiure pursuits.
Michael
CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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 ;P
<italic>Work hard, Work effectively.
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Not really work safe. Its a good job my boss didnt see that.
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