Dude! Don’t drag down the medium!
Not to be confused with the median.
A peculiar style I have always admired, upside down and backwards
Maybe this isn’t weird.
I always read with a pencil in hand, for marking things. Sometimes I mark things TBM (that’s “to be memorized,” for use in everyday life). That one’s fairly rare. Normally I mark stuff that I’ve never heard of and want to research a bit.
Also, I have a fairly strict policy with (prose) books: Once I properly begin a book, I do not put it down until I have at least reached the halfway point or the 300th page (whichever comes first), at which point I reassess. If it’s a crappy book, I don’t read the rest. This tends to be a good policy, I think, though it’s not 100% effective. There have been plenty of books where I just couldn’t have predicted how crappy they’d be in the first half.
As far as the skipping around issue, I will say that I do, but only on books of poetry. And I make a point to read it front-to-back before I put it down, because the order is important.
Ye need some better books..
Slan,
D. 
Less to do with the quality of my books and more to do with the capacity of my memory.
I do this too, although I really have no idea why I do.
Jeez man, that’s my excuse and I’m fifty…
Slan,
eh…D.
WOW. I do too! This is amazing. I always thought it was because I’m left handed.
When it comes to magazines I tend to read first the table of contents. Then I go to the specific articles I think to be of interest. I’ve never read a magazine cover to cover.
(Oh, I’m ambidexterous, for what that’s worth.)
yes, I have a habit of reading peculiar books
The only magazine I read cover-to-cover is National Geographic. It’s also the only magazine subscription I’ve kept for more than a few years.
Somehow, that doesn’t surprise me.
Wrong thread Denny, this thread is about PERCULIAR, not PECULIAR Book. But thanks for sharing.
You’ve obviously never heard Denny talk. 
I cannot sit on the loo without a book in my hand ,consequently I spend alot of time on the loo and the floor of the bathroom is strewn with books.
RORY
I usually have more than one book going. Right now it’s Catcher in the Rye and a book my daughter sent me- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society(about the German occupation of that island in WWII) which shows great promise…I guess that’s why she mailed it to me…
I always read front to back, and once in a great while will mark a passage that I really like. (the Great Gatsby was the last one I marked)
and then there’s Roddy Doyle- I always need help in the translation..
Once in a while I’ll pick up a magazine, and always go back to front.
particularly odd, innit
A great novel by any account.
There are sentences in that book that would make any aspiring writer throw his typewriter out the window and give it up as an impossible task.
What scares me even more is that when he wrote it he was too drunk to speak to anybody who came into the room. Too drunk too stand up…
I think that every new typewriter should come with a case of Whiskey. It could possibly improve some of the crap I have read in recent bestselling novels.
Slan,
D.
Maybe that’s what I need to do