Lessons learned after 300 books in 4 years

Post by pas » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 12:29 PM UTC

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Have you read Pinker: The Blank Slate, and Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty? And "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" by Samuel P. Huntington? Also, Gleick: Chaos? Oh, and for fiction the James S. A. Corey: The Expanse series, veeeery easy to read, normally funny, and quite clever.

Thanks, no. I'll start with "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" as it's the most controversial one (spread of reviews) and if I like it I'll keep going.

Then just skip that and start with the Pinker book, as that's very rewarding (very dense, so I consider myself a fast reader, but that took a few months), connects seemingly distant topics and concepts.

Post by kayoone » Thu, Nov 24, 2016, 5:22 AM UTC

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That sounds impossible to me. How can you possibly read one book every day, unless they're extremely short? I could imagine this being true if you dedicate something like 8-12 hours per day, but how do you have time for that?

That's what I thought too but no, it's totally doable (I am doing it after all) and the average page count according to goodreads is 357. I have no family, I work a 9-5 at a multinational and my only other hobby is bouldering. I use every spare moment to read. If you added up all your spare time every day you'd be surprised (clearly). It's not evenly distributed - I usually catch up over the weekend when I have loads…

How about cooking, laundry, daily hygiene etc. It would be really hard reading all the time while doing that.

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