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Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by Bukunming(m): 7:51am On Apr 11, 2017 |
BeenieB:Please, which state are you? I need to borrow from you. 1 Like |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by lonikit: 7:51am On Apr 11, 2017 |
ZarZar:u didnt lie, u only use hyperbole. |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by Teel012(m): 7:52am On Apr 11, 2017 |
I have no idea, started reading when I was really young, mom is an English teacher, dad a lover of books, so we had a library. here is a pic of my recently re-read books, still got about 30 more, all read from October to now. I'm a very fast reader, also suspense n intrigue fuels my reading.
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Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by adontcare(f): 7:54am On Apr 11, 2017 |
Read more than I can count. I bought most of them. While some were borrowed. Have up to 200 novels presently. 1 Like |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by Nobody: 7:55am On Apr 11, 2017 |
lonikit: Lol, so you think I'm exaggerating? I don't know the exact number, obviously, but I've read tons over the years. |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by hopefulLandlord: 7:57am On Apr 11, 2017 |
EMEKA1MILLION: would you be so kind to send them to me? |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by AmaechiLinus(m): 7:59am On Apr 11, 2017 |
Novels that I read
(1) The richest man in Babylon_George S Clarkson
(2) How to be a gentle man - John Bridges
(3) The rich dad and poor dad
(4) the dead God
(5) How to talk to people
(6) How to increase your memory power
(7) the violence
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Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by EMEKA1MILLION(m): 7:59am On Apr 11, 2017 |
hopefulLandlord:The books are much! I could upload to Dropbox but u have to be specific of the ones u want. |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by Karlman: 8:00am On Apr 11, 2017 |
NOT POSSIBLE TO COUNT ....but would name few |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by hopefulLandlord: 8:01am On Apr 11, 2017 |
EMEKA1MILLION: upload as many as you can, then give the link; thanks |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by EMEKA1MILLION(m): 8:02am On Apr 11, 2017 |
hopefulLandlord:Romance? Thriller? Crime? Which in particular? |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by poweredcom(m): 8:04am On Apr 11, 2017 |
Lolli adventures of Nackson and dauda i miss those novels |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by hopefulLandlord: 8:06am On Apr 11, 2017 |
EMEKA1MILLION: strike out romance please, others are okay, thanks 1 Like |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by Nobody: 8:07am On Apr 11, 2017 |
I've read almost 500 Novels. I'm a novel freak! 1 Like |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by goldwaters(f): 8:09am On Apr 11, 2017 |
started reading novels (Mills and boon and pacesetters) before I was 7. I used to read it in the toilet so my older siblings won't see me. I have bought sooo many books but I recently stopped lending out, people don't return them and I have read so many too. I've lost count of the number of books I've bought and read too 3 Likes |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by sircrabo: 8:09am On Apr 11, 2017 |
I never had flare for novels. I prefered reading books from local authors. I read books like chike and the river, Eze goes to school, and very few novels from foreign authors. I like books I can read and relate it to my present environment and picture myself as the main character I.e Chike in Chike and the river. I don't like reading a novel that's trying to create a picture of where I've never been before. I like Naija stories. I also read articles. I see people move around with very fat novels in their bags and I wish I could do it Few times I had a foreign novel with me ; I was only trying to get a girls attention. Lol I wish I could write. Write the kind of stories I see on Nairaland literature section I.e diary of a street hustler, kukere sisters Do you think its possible to develop the habit of reading novels at age 31 ? When all I think is money, money,more money. I'm just a typical Naija guy 1 Like |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by lonikit: 8:10am On Apr 11, 2017 |
ZarZar:I was actually joking. my own case is ironical. I read english and literary but throughout my stay on campus I was able to complete two novels (arrow of God and Purple Hibiscus). I did have-readings, online summary and also listened to analysis by coursemates for the rest of them. the funiest part is dat I used to pass more dan those that read them. I find reading some african authors so boring, especially soyinka and ngugi. |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by Nobody: 8:10am On Apr 11, 2017 |
I am not exaggerating but I have read more than 500 novels (romance, religious, crime, collections etc), I used to keep a log of books I had read but stopped in 2012...reading is so much fun... ![]() 1 Like |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by peacockremi(m): 8:13am On Apr 11, 2017 |
lilfreezy: lilfreezy: 10 Half of a Yellow Sun Under the Udala Trees The Last Duty Everything Good will come Sunset in Biafra Sozaboy Sunset at Dawn There was a Country Survive the Peace The Biafran Story lilfreezy:U must b a #BIAFARA 1 Like |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by vcente(m): 8:16am On Apr 11, 2017 |
I stopped counting when I got to 600,that was in ss1.so yes ive read thousands 1 Like |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by sparko1(m): 8:18am On Apr 11, 2017 |
Love to read, currently reading 'A man in full', The search for Red October'. |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by xavieree(f): 8:20am On Apr 11, 2017 |
skillful01:I wish u were a friend close by....i wud definitely do alot of borrowing ryt nw |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by Mambox: 8:22am On Apr 11, 2017 |
Thousands will be a modest answer. From a war chest of 100s of Enid Blyton fictions, to over 40 James Hadley Chase and Biggles series, Pacesetter, Bloomseries, DanFulani, Fagbamigbe books to the best of African Writers Series where I've got about 40 on the list. I won't forget African children books by Anezi Okori, Buchi Emecheta, Zulu Sofola, Kola Onadipe... Such beauty! Then came John Grisham, Tami Hoag, Robert Ludlum, Frederick Forsyth, David Baldaci, a few Len Deighton and Stephen King plus many others... Then adventure series led by Jeffrey Tayler, Wilbur Smith etc Then Nigerian history 100 days of Abacha, TAPS, why we struck, 17yrs of military rule, the story of Nigeria, soldiers of fortune, Awo: Unfinished Greatness, There was once a country, The story of Biafra, Ojukwu by Forsyth... And a whole heap! Then all Al-Maktoums books, Arabian and Islamic civilisation stories, Oxford business publications, and two book from former World Bank Director Dambissa Moyo... Reading is simply a way of life. I really wished we rescucitated the beauty of African Literature, it's overall my best. Ferdinand Oyinbo, Chekh Amadou Kane, Our own Achebe, Ngugi Wa Thiong'O and Francis Selormey... But i remain a bloody engineer though. 2 Likes |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by Nobody: 8:24am On Apr 11, 2017 |
lonikit: In other words, you're not an avid reader? I hold a different opinion about African authors. When I used to read for my cousin, there were two books in particular, one was titled Comfort (can't remember the author now) & another one the Obi Okonkwo one by Chinue Achebe. I loved them because to me the setting/plot & the culture behind the story telling was something exotic. I'm South African by birth, so at time I knew very little about other African countries. Hence the intrigue. The book Comfort had me obsessed with Ghana for years. So I guess it depends on what you take or get out of the work you read. Me, I like the unknown, especially when it's far from the norm or what I'm used to-something different. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by Lunagirl(f): 8:25am On Apr 11, 2017 |
EMEKA1MILLION: I have a thousand books too. Let's share with each other naaaa 1 Like |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by tstx(m): 8:26am On Apr 11, 2017 |
Snow84:I have read all Sidney Sheldon, James Patterson, Mary Higgins Clark, Buchi emecheta, all jk rowljngs, Conan Doyle, all most all Stephen king's, etc... the list plenty... and I've never Bought any... I download most of them online. 1 Like |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by Lunagirl(f): 8:26am On Apr 11, 2017 |
I used to buy hardcopy novels before I entered the University, then I discovered the pleasure of digital books. Since then, Torrent is my friend ![]() ![]() |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by xavieree(f): 8:26am On Apr 11, 2017 |
nmreports:Stephen king is more dan my favourite..... |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by Mambox: 8:32am On Apr 11, 2017 |
I think I have a few 100 hundreds in my collection scattered across Lagos, Kaduna and Ilorin. Lost a box load to Young Shall Grow motors when I sent some personal things by cargo. I still buy and I've lost a handful to my cousins and friends who borrow them and never return. |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by cooljoe(m): 8:35am On Apr 11, 2017 |
ad infinitum on both counts |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by xavieree(f): 8:37am On Apr 11, 2017 |
EMEKA1MILLION:D e library really got me...wud wanna hv sumfn like dat..SOS |
Re: Number Of Novels I Read, And The Number Bought With My Money by Nobody: 8:38am On Apr 11, 2017 |
I have read more than a thousand novels. Have 876 novels in my collections Currently reading Rambo six By tom Clancy And Odd Thomas by dean koontz 1 Like |
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