Gemmill 49832 Posted Thursday at 16:37 Share Posted Thursday at 16:37 How does TT measure up to the rest of Thick Britain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 11343 Posted Thursday at 17:02 Share Posted Thursday at 17:02 I must confess I haven't read a book, have read shitloads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 36694 Posted Thursday at 18:34 Share Posted Thursday at 18:34 (edited) 100% of CTs have never read a book Edited Thursday at 18:35 by Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 22771 Posted Thursday at 18:48 Share Posted Thursday at 18:48 Read 37 last year. Did have a target of 40. Have the same again this year, currently read 4 so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 49832 Posted Thursday at 18:54 Author Share Posted Thursday at 18:54 You need to up your game or start reading a few Spot the Dog books to catch yourself up. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 12470 Posted Friday at 03:23 Share Posted Friday at 03:23 Read at least one book a week. Hate to think what the percentage is here. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler 11718 Posted Friday at 15:07 Share Posted Friday at 15:07 I won't pretend that it doesn't take me a couple of weeks to get through a book at a time, but I tend to only read for an hour to 90 minutes a day but I get through some. Re-reading Dracula at the minute which is comfortably the greatest horror novel ever written IMO. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 23594 Posted Friday at 15:12 Share Posted Friday at 15:12 I read a book a two a month over the course of a year but, like with most things in life, I’m a binger. I’ll drag a novel i’m not enjoying out over a couple of months before tearing through 2-3 I enjoy in half the time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler 11718 Posted Friday at 15:14 Share Posted Friday at 15:14 Just now, Dr Gloom said: I read a book a two a month over the course of a year but, like with most things in life, I’m a binger. I’ll drag a novel i’m not enjoying out over a couple of months before tearing through 2-3 I enjoy in half the time. I have two unfinished books on the shelf waiting for me to finish - around 50 or so pages left on each - because as soon as I see another book I like I don't have the patience to wait until I finish. The longest waiting book was canny boring, but the second one I was really enjoying and pied it off for Dracula just as it was getting good for this exact reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 23594 Posted Friday at 15:19 Share Posted Friday at 15:19 I used to read more novels before smartphones. Tend to drift off in bed to a podcast where in the past I would have read more. Sad really that I’m so addicted to this bloody device. Doesn’t stop me telling my teenager off for using his too much, like I have any moral high ground. I’m basically a massive hypocrite, and he’s started calling me out on it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 7561 Posted Friday at 15:21 Share Posted Friday at 15:21 I read about 365 books per year. Kids books at bedtime but all the same. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 23617 Posted Friday at 15:48 Share Posted Friday at 15:48 22 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said: I used to read more novels before smartphones. Tend to drift off in bed to a podcast where in the past I would have read more. Sad really that I’m so addicted to this bloody device. Doesn’t stop me telling my teenager off for using his too much, like I have any moral high ground. I’m basically a massive hypocrite, and he’s started calling me out on it Erm, you're the adult. Do as I say, not as I do, now fuck of you little parasitic shit. 👍 I read 2 or 3 books a year nowadays, on holiday. Don't know how anyone has time to read a book a week like. When do you do it? A couple of other things. I've got a horrible tendency to scan read and then 10 minutes later I realise I haven't really taken anything in and I need to reread the last 2 pages. Think it's because for work I read so many papers I just scan for key facts. Secondly, tbh most books start off well and end shit imo. Rare you get a novel with a great narrative arc. Same is true for TV series I guess. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14082 Posted Friday at 15:58 Share Posted Friday at 15:58 I’ve read two Orlando Figes - Natasha’s Dance - A Cultural History of Russia A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 (Which was a fucking door stop but brilliant) and The cards of the gambler by Benedict Kiely which was less heavy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 23594 Posted Friday at 16:05 Share Posted Friday at 16:05 (edited) 27 minutes ago, Renton said: Erm, you're the adult. Do as I say, not as I do, now fuck of you little parasitic shit. 👍 I read 2 or 3 books a year nowadays, on holiday. Don't know how anyone has time to read a book a week like. When do you do it? A couple of other things. I've got a horrible tendency to scan read and then 10 minutes later I realise I haven't really taken anything in and I need to reread the last 2 pages. Think it's because for work I read so many papers I just scan for key facts. Secondly, tbh most books start off well and end shit imo. Rare you get a novel with a great narrative arc. Same is true for TV series I guess. harsh, but fair on your second point, i tend to read on my commute and in bed but like i say, podcasts and doom-scrolling have taken over the role of novels in the past couple of years - not healthy. and on the scanning then having to re-read pages thing, i do that too. particularly with a book i'm not enjoying. it's a classic adhd trait - i'm undiagnosed but suspect i have it Edited Friday at 16:16 by Dr Gloom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 16416 Posted Friday at 16:14 Share Posted Friday at 16:14 My Goodreads stats also suggest that my concentration span is deteriorating along with the state of the world. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strawb 4639 Posted Friday at 17:51 Share Posted Friday at 17:51 Probably do about 40 books a year, but my job is a doss. Most reading is done once the mrs has fell asleep at 9pm, fuck watching the shite on the telly 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 18982 Posted Friday at 18:21 Share Posted Friday at 18:21 (edited) Don’t read too many nowadays but listen to lots in the van. Just finished The Psychopath Test (am looking at some of you fuckers very differently now 🫵😑) before that Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. Books are tricky nowadays but I flew to and back from Edinburgh last weekend and managed to make a large dent into Emancipation for Goalposts which is about Yugoslav football and the war in the 90s… Edited Friday at 18:23 by PaddockLad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 36694 Posted Friday at 20:16 Share Posted Friday at 20:16 (edited) Obviously there’s a different type of mental engagement actually reading a book. Because an adaptation for audiobook has, at least, the influence of whoever is recording the voice parts. But it’s still ‘reading a book’ imo if you listen to one. I only read books the old fashioned way because I’m so fucking old fashioned. I’m currently reading this btw and it’s really good https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20509618-the-land-where-lemons-grow Edited yesterday at 06:44 by Alex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 36517 Posted yesterday at 02:21 Share Posted yesterday at 02:21 Currently reading 'the cat sat on the mat'. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 45113 Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago On 08/03/2025 at 02:21, Howmanheyman said: Currently reading 'the cat sat on the mat'. Spoilers man!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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