Survey: attention span?

[ilai]

I feel like when I get bored, I should be reading a novel. But I've never gotten into the habit of reading fiction--I suspect my attention span is too short or something. Does anyone else have this problem, or is it just me?

(For reference, the last book I read [aside from The Tao of Pooh] is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It took a while because I would read maybe 30-50 pages at a time, plus I was trying to get up to speed reading in Chinese again.)

Comments

[ilai]

As opposed to "sharp" I guess :) And all this time I thought that quote was from "The Shining". Not that I've seen the movie...

[darlene-ford.livejournal.com]

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