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Post by GiannaRose on Feb 3, 2013 21:31:43 GMT -6
I know! my mom did that with hunger games b/c i was staying up 'till 2 and could't put it down.
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Post by sapphire on Feb 4, 2013 0:07:18 GMT -6
Pretty sure my parents just gave up eventually. There's no stopping me when I have a good book in my hands.
Now that I've basically moved out, of course, I determine my own bedtime. Which is really, really nice when I want to stay up reading until who-knows-when.
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Post by Zoom on Feb 4, 2013 2:09:13 GMT -6
You know a book is good when you're still reading it when your parents get up for work.
But then you do the same thing the next night, and the next, and suddenly you're nocturnal. Speaking of which, whoops guys it's 4 am WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN
And yeah my parents gave up too. I could stay up as late as I wanted so long as I was quiet. I realized the other day that I walk very quietly now out of habit. I accidentally scared the cheese out of my dog.
(Also lol @ sending you to your room without books)
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Post by sapphire on Feb 4, 2013 17:23:11 GMT -6
Oh, I totally have the same walk-quietly habit! I grew up in a very, very old house, so it creaked all the time. I had to have extremely light steps if I wanted to be quiet. Of course, that translated to me sneaking up on people without meaning to. Even on the soccer field, running at a sprint. I'm totally nocturnal, which is a pain when I have classes all day. Also, I lose any helpful focus for working on things around ten p.m., so I have like four hours a day to be productive, and then I lose it. But books. Books are worth it.
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Post by Endovia on Feb 4, 2013 20:42:50 GMT -6
Lol! A friend of mine that really loves books has that same walk-quietly trait and spooks people without meaning to. I think it's just a condition of late night readers syndrome.
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Post by Zoom on Feb 4, 2013 20:50:34 GMT -6
Same with the old house. I remember being a kid and sneaking downstairs to play Neopets past my bedtime. It would take me like five minutes to get down the stairs cuz they creaked so bad.
Hey you play soccer! Cool. I always wanted to be a soccer kid. Is the camraderie of the team all it's cracked up to be?
I know what you mean. Your body is like, calibrated to work through the night and sleep during the day, but when you have school or work or something, you need to sleep at night, and you only get this tiny window to do stuff in. I sort of regret this gap year I've been taking (personality regression is an insidious thing) but I've loved not having any regular daytime commitments.
So what're you reading these days?
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Post by Zoom on Feb 4, 2013 20:54:46 GMT -6
Haha, "late night readers syndrome" "Hi, sorry, but I can't come in to work today. As you know, I have LNRS, and I got a gift certificate to Amazon for my birthday, so...well, you know. Thanks for being so understanding about my condition."
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Post by sapphire on Feb 4, 2013 21:29:09 GMT -6
My problem was mostly sneaking upstairs far, far later than I was supposed to after spending extra time playing Oblivion or Age of Empires or something. The late-night reading I did in bed, mostly. I used to play, anyway. Haven't for a few years now. And no... There's no real camaraderie, at least not among high school girls. We were mostly at least friendly with each other, though. The last year was the best - we finally got a decent coach, so we were too focused on the game for any real drama. The game itself is a blast, though. I still miss it. I would love to get rid of daytime commitments. Heh. I'm in my last year of college, and looking for a job and all that, but I'm considering asking my grandparents for money instead of a graduation gift, so that I could travel or something for a bit. I'm totally going to start telling people that I have Late Night Readers Syndrome. I'll use it so often, they'll start to believe me. Oh, geez. What am I reading lately? Um. Well, lots of stuff for school, of course. Not much time for personal reading, sadly. I do have the ever-growing list of books to read, though. I'm in the middle of Game of Thrones right now, and I have a couple of books by Brandon Sanderson (favorite author ever) that I own but haven't read yet, and several others. Mostly fantasy. What about you guys?
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Post by Endovia on Feb 4, 2013 21:53:13 GMT -6
Before you know it, Late Night Readers Syndrome will be a fully diagnosable and treatable condition. With side effects, of course. Oh books! I've started reading The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand. It's good, but very heavy and slow going. I want to enter those essay contests, so I figured it'd be good to understand what she's talking about. Just some nice light reading. I've got a book by Michael Crichton that I really want to read called The Lost World which is a sequel to Jurassic Park. Otherwise, class reading, too. We're on Invisible Man right now and I'm really liking it.
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Post by sapphire on Feb 5, 2013 8:47:28 GMT -6
Ah, I thought about doing the essay contest for Ayn Rand books when I was in high school, but unfortunately, I was never that into her writing. Bit too slow for my taste, though I still keep saying I'm going to finish Atlas Shrugged someday. My literature class this semester just read The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. It was inspired by The Invisible Man and Native Son, so you might like if, if you enjoyed either of those. Personally, I couldn't stand Native Son when I read it, but I did quite like The White Tiger. We're starting Wolf Hall now.
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Post by Zoom on Feb 5, 2013 11:10:33 GMT -6
I head that Ayn Rand has a bad rep, but I want to check it out for myself. So. Altas Shrugged is on my reading list, albiet kind of far down. I'm finishing up Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku; it is so great. He can explain complex physics and theories in a way even I can understand. Next on the list: Shadow Warrior by Felix Rodriguez.
Also I hear that Infinite Jest is like a Great American Novel; anybody?
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Post by sapphire on Feb 5, 2013 15:32:51 GMT -6
Oh, man... I had an internship with a website called Small Demons last year, and I had to go through Infinite Jest and tag recognizable topics... The website is basically a huge database you can use to search for books by using people, significant objects, places, etc. Infinite Jest is a monster. If you search for it on the website and click on the first one that comes up, you can see all the different things I had to tag for the database. It took me like a month. From what I gathered (from select quotes that the site had picked out), it's really interesting. It's actually kind of on my list of things to read.
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Post by Zoom on Feb 5, 2013 23:12:32 GMT -6
I lost it at In This Book: Food and Drinks. Like anyone needs to know that there was a Pepsi consumed at some point. Hahaha menial jobs
When my dad was starting his pub, I had to go through a list of like 300 beers and copy and paste all their info into a database so he could pick through which ones he wanted to have available. I sat down at the computer at 9 AM and didn't get up until it was done, at 2 PM.
Have you read Looking for Alaska?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2013 0:46:19 GMT -6
Don't listen to Sapphire. Soccer's great! I suppose it does depend on your teammates, but the game itself is great. I guess there's just not much fighting amongst my teammates because we're too busy criticizing our sports director. She's and old, senile, stubborn-as-a-goat lady who honestly knows nothing about soccer and everyone thinks is developing Alzheimers. She's the reason, no joke, that soccer isn't a school sport in our town, though the whole soccer team, pretty much, is trying to make it one.
Books, books, books. I've got plenty of Ranger's Apprentice books to read, by John Flanagan. Still out to finish the PenDragon series, too! I've wanted to read Looking for Alaska, being a fan of John Green and such. So far, though, the closest I've come is developing an addiction to his YouTube videos.
"Hello, my name's Arcane, and I suffer from Late Night Reader's Syndrome." "Hello, Arcane." Yep, I can see the support circle already. Looks like a few of you will be there, too, though! It's 1:45, now. I've got school in the morning. I'll probably be up 'til 3:00, though. My grades might be a bit better if I actually got some sleep... oh, well, grades don't mean anything compared to actually widening my knowledge through the internet. Seriously, if you use the internet for something other than Facebook and Twitter, you start learning a lot more than you would in any school. That goes twice when you start reading! I know more about Greek Mythology than any teacher in the school and I haven't so much as touched a mythology textbook in my life, let alone taken a class on it!
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Post by Zoom on Feb 6, 2013 1:08:17 GMT -6
If I was any good at team sports I would be All Over soccer. Also knowing how to play would help, probably. That's a shame about your director, though. I can see a story in it - kind of cathartic satire. Show it to your teammates. Boost morale. Win! Looking for Alaska is seriously such a great book, you have to read it. I mean. John Green's other books are good, but they're nowhere close to LfA. I'd call it the best book for young adults ever and not be exaggerating. It's like this generation's Catcher in the Rye, but more so. I wrote an essay on it BECAUSE I WANTED TO, not for school, and I hardly ever do anything. I totally agree about knowledge widening on the internet. Wikipedia and Quora have changed my life so much. I'm waiting for the day where Wikipedia connects directly to the brain. Everything = instantly fixed. In the meantime, though, I'd love to start a website that was sort of like a condensed Wikiversity - super easy classes on complex stuff that progress in a logical fashion. (My main problem with Wikipedia is it's like, you have all the information in the world, but where do you start? Kind of like trying to learn French by picking up a French-only dictionary: no reference.) Or maybe this website could recommend pages to read based on what you wanted to know about? Also is it just me or should Wikipedia make it so that when you hover over links, you get a quick definition on what it is, so you don't have to open a new tab and read that before you can get back to what you were originally trying to learn about. Sorry, this has been stuck inside my head for a while, and you let it out
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