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Nay - Too difficult | 0 | 0% | |
Nay - Too pretentious | 0 | 0% | |
Nay - Too boring | 1 | 3.70% | |
Nay - Too long | 0 | 0% | |
Nay - More than one of the above | 7 | 25.93% | |
Not yet - But I plan to get around to it. Someday. | 6 | 22.22% | |
Never tried it; never will | 8 | 29.63% | |
yes I said yes I will Yes | 5 | 18.52% | |
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06-22-2022, 08:42 AM | #46 |
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06-22-2022, 09:35 AM | #47 |
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I'm pretty sure you're reading their sentiment wrong. Perhaps because of translation. I'm pretty sure they were simply describing a vividly immersive experience much like the one many who read for escape describe. They were IN the work of fiction, not just reading it. Is that really so different from what you wish to experience when reading fiction?
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My wife gets irritated because she can be talking to me, and it takes a minute for me to realize that someone is asking me a question.
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06-22-2022, 11:47 AM | #50 |
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Yes, I meant was DiapDealer said. But Turkish is quite different from English, there is almost no linguistic overlap that I know of. So sometimes what I mean and what native speakers understand (or least native speakers from other Indo-European languages) differs =(
I also lose much of the awareness I have of my surroundings when I read fiction (it is not so with non-fiction). And more so with stream-of-consciousness narratives. Also, thinking about how I waited two months for Ulysses to arrive reminded me that I was very into Forgotten Realms novels back in high school (I still miss those shared fantasy worlds sometimes). I remember waiting for months for new books to arrive. I used to order them from a local bookstore, there was no shipping cost that way. You native speakers may not care about this very much but for me the biggest thing about e-books was being able to read any book I want without waiting for weeks. When I bought my Nook 1st Edition, downloading books was a dream come true. Last edited by GERGE; 06-22-2022 at 11:55 AM. |
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06-24-2022, 10:16 PM | #53 |
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Your comment made me go and read the start on Gutenberg. The prose is interesting. I see some appeal. Inventive, if florid. But I fear the book lacks a story, which I am unable to tolerate in a book.
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