In 2020, Garfunkel read a book called "Hello Darkness, My Old Friend". I looked it up. It's not about him.
Art Garfunkel's Library
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#22I love this! Everyone should keep a list like this (self-hosted). It also makes me a little bit sad, as there are SO MANY books and this shows that a lifetime of reading will only get you to maybe 2000 books. Choose wisely what you read.
What does it matter if it's self hosted? That requirement would make 99% of readers not do it. Goodreads sucks but for the majority of people will be way better.
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#23He gets through Ulysses pretty good: "278. Jan 1984 James Joyce Ulysses * 1921 783 pp." "279. Jan 1984 Jim Harrison Farmer 1976 160 pp." "280. Jan 1984 Michel de Montaigne Travel Journal 1580-81 175 pp."
Probably, like most people, he just read words ;)
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#24Top quality post! My list would be embarrassingly short..
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#26I love this! Everyone should keep a list like this (self-hosted). It also makes me a little bit sad, as there are SO MANY books and this shows that a lifetime of reading will only get you to maybe 2000 books. Choose wisely what you read.
>as there are SO MANY books and this shows that a lifetime of reading will only get you to maybe 2000 books.
I get through about 15 books a month - 2000 would be like 10-12 years, not a lifetime.
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#27I love this! Everyone should keep a list like this (self-hosted). It also makes me a little bit sad, as there are SO MANY books and this shows that a lifetime of reading will only get you to maybe 2000 books. Choose wisely what you read.
This is why I’m surprised by people rewatching tv shows and movies, rereading books, etc. You have a limited amount of time before you die and an, effectively, infinite amount of material to consume. Most of it is dross, but enough isn’t that there is no time to revisit.
Would you apply that opinion to music as well? Yes, it is shorter and more practical type of media, but people tend to consume it until it "wears off". Other media consumption is much more demanding, complex and immersive and it is sometimes a drag to do it more than once, but it can be worth it if it made that deep impression on you.
I don't consume a lot of media for the same reason of wasting my time, plus trial and error of finding satisfying material takes additional quantity of time I don't have. With that I justify occasional media reconsumption as I can get equally satisfying emotional response from rewatched material.
Also, why would death play any role on how many different material one needs to consume?
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#28In 2020, Garfunkel read a book called "Hello Darkness, My Old Friend". I looked it up. It's not about him.
He also read a book called "Paul Simon: The Life" (1279)
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#29I love this! Everyone should keep a list like this (self-hosted). It also makes me a little bit sad, as there are SO MANY books and this shows that a lifetime of reading will only get you to maybe 2000 books. Choose wisely what you read.
> as there are SO MANY books and this shows that a lifetime of reading will only get you to maybe 2000 books. I get through about 15 books a month - 2000 would be like 10-12 years, not a lifetime.
I have three little kids, I get through about one page a week.
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#30I love this! Everyone should keep a list like this (self-hosted). It also makes me a little bit sad, as there are SO MANY books and this shows that a lifetime of reading will only get you to maybe 2000 books. Choose wisely what you read.
What does it matter if it's self hosted? That requirement would make 99% of readers not do it. Goodreads sucks but for the majority of people will be way better.
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