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Can you recall how many books you have read during your lifetime?

Which was your most favorite or favorites books to have read?

Posted - December 20, 2021
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  • 17620
    I cannot.
      December 20, 2021 11:24 AM MST
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  • 44652
    A few hundred, I'm sure. I was a fan of the early scifi writers; Heinlein, Aasimov etc. I have read all of Clancy's books he wrote while alive.
      December 20, 2021 11:41 AM MST
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  • 16838
    An early sf writer was Homer (robots in The Odyssey). An intermediate sf writer was Mary Shelley (Frankenstein). Heinlein and Asimov are Johnny-come-latelies by comparison, I'm a fan too but I wouldn't call them "early". Add Philip K Dick, E E "Doc" Smith and Arthur C Clarke to that, as contemporaries. I particularly enjoy those writers who are/were able to blur the line between sf and fantasy, Anne McCaffrey and Frank Herbert were very good at it, as is the far more recent Margaret Weis (the stuff she does with Tracy Hickman is entirely fantasy, but her Star of the Guardians was clever sf/fantasy.) This post was edited by Slartibartfast at December 21, 2021 9:49 PM MST
      December 20, 2021 11:20 PM MST
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  • 1502
    I might be more interested in the ones Clancy wrote while dead...
      December 21, 2021 11:46 AM MST
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  • 23650
    :) Ha!
      December 21, 2021 9:48 PM MST
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  • 44652
    There are a number of them that were published using his name after he died. I don't know the story behind that.
      December 22, 2021 9:01 AM MST
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  • 23650
    Interesting!
      December 22, 2021 7:53 PM MST
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  • 44652
    OK...fascinating.

      December 22, 2021 7:56 PM MST
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  • 23650
    What you said is interesting and, yes, fascinating to me, too. I don't know anything about Clancy. :)
      December 22, 2021 8:18 PM MST
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  • 19937
    I have no way of quantifying how many books I've read.  I always read before bedtime, going to and coming home from work and when I don't feel like watching TV.  I get anxious when I'm down to just one book left to read.  I can't say I have a favorite book, but I do know that, with so many good books to read, I don't read any of them more than once.  
      December 20, 2021 2:42 PM MST
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  • 1952
    Way too many to count.
      December 20, 2021 4:15 PM MST
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  • 13277
    No way.
      December 21, 2021 11:48 AM MST
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  • 23650
    I have no idea.
    A lot, though.

    There are too many books I've really enjoyed reading to choose but I'll name the one that came to my mind first:


    "The Sundial"                            Shirley Jackson


    At this point, I've read it three times and I've enjoyed it every time. And Jackson is WAY up there on a list of authors whom I immensely enjoy
      December 21, 2021 9:53 PM MST
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