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[zdarlight]

Alright, I need some help, people. At the age of 17, I've been asked to do my first ever book report on what I read over the summer. The only problem is that I didn't read anything extra-curricular over the summer. So I thought my best bet would be to do GO, and quite a few of you probably know it better than I do, as the last time I read it was

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[fenris_wolf0]

If I may? Do not pull this from someone else's review/summary. Read a book, any book -maybe from an author you like- this will take about one evening, say 2-3 hours then plan on 4 hours to write your book report.

If you would like to use GO (good choice!), then give yourself a similar amount of time to re-read it as to read a new book.

This is really the best advice I can give you, I am not trying to be a pain in the neck.

[falltotry]

exactly.
i'm glad someone else bothered to say this. now i don't feel like such an ass.

[stuffu]

thank you

[zdarlight]

I'm not going to use someone else's review or summary. I was just asking for advice. And also, it's physically impossible for me to read (and absorb) a book in 2-3 hours. It's simply impossible. At the moment, I'm not even sure I could spare 2-3 hours anyway.

[tyellas]

You don't have to read a massive literary brick. You could pick a short book of literary merit - they are out there, such as Colette's The Last of Cheri or (author forgotten) The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea or Conran's Heart of Darkness. Or most Hemingway. At worst, there's Steve Martin's Shopgirl. All of these are either long short stories or novellas under 130 pages that often get published in single-book format, and certainly your teacher would respect the fact that you were, ahem, doing your own work.

[fenris_wolf0]

You asked for advice and I gave the best I could give.

However, if I can read a book in one hour, so I do not see why you couldn't do the same in 2-3 hours.

If you truly cannot read a book in 2-3 hours, then you probably should do a lot more reading and a lot less internet surfing.

Just my opinion.

[zdarlight]

Why do you think know how long I spend online, anyway?

I take a long time to read books because I'm a slow reader. That simple. Unlike some, I can't skim, I can't not read the description, I read every word and absorb it. Hence, I am a very slow reader. That simple