{"id":1293,"date":"2009-01-23T10:14:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T09:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2009-01-23T10:14:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T09:14:33","slug":"could-you-read-1000-novels-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"Could you read 1,000 novels? (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last seven days, the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper has been publishing a series of guides which collectively recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/series\/1000novels\">&#8220;1,000 novels everyone must read&#8221;<\/a>. Now this is a strong injunction. Not 100 novels, but 1,000. Not that some people must read, but everyone. Not that one is recommended to read, but that one must read.<br \/>\nBut, most of all, I&#8217;m wondering how many people could or would read 1,000 novels.<br \/>\nI aim to read a book a month and I read at least twice as much non-fiction as fiction. This means that last year I read 13 books (totalling a bit over 4,000 pages) and only four of them were novels. At this rate, it would take me 250 years to cover 1,000 novels. Even if I read nothing but novels and if one assumed the typical novel was around 250 pages, at my average reading rate (around 4,500 pages a year), I reckon it would take me around 55 years.<br \/>\nThe only person I know who might be able to claim one day to have read 1,000 novels is my American cyber friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danahuff.net\/\">Dana Huff<\/a> &#8211; but she is a high school English teacher.<br \/>\nSo, how are you doing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last seven days, the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper has been publishing a series of guides which collectively recommend &#8220;1,000 novels everyone must read&#8221;. Now this is a strong injunction. Not 100 novels, but 1,000. Not that some people must read, but everyone. Not that one is recommended to read, but that one must read. But, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}