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Originally Posted by FanciFreez
New here, but just curious.. I start a book and then see another I like.. I buy it and now I am reading two books, maybe three.... I put one down and then read the other and switch back and forth.. does anyone else here do that?  |
Previously I didn't, but I'm about to start doing that.
There are some books I want to read, but they're very long; like 1400+ pages. Many of those are composed of different parts, or books, like a series that make up one story.
In the fantasy genre it's quite normal for an author to write three seperate books of 500 pages that form one story. Later, it happens that these three books are melded into an omnibus with three parts, creating a huge book of 1500 pages.
I've noticed that I often like long stories, but not THAT long; they're too much to read in one go. I get disinterested with the world and the characters if I read too much of it all the time, and a 1500 page book (or three of 500) will take me about three weeks to finish, if I don't get distracted by other hobbies (and I have a lot o them).
Therefore I'm thinking about starting two or three of those books at the same time and read each part as a seperate book, "pretending" that the later parts are not yet released. So, read a part of this one, read a part of that one, and maybe throw a completely unrelated book in between the parts, then switch back to the first book, part two.