CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

this is a weird, random question i know, but how many times do they say you need to read a book to master it? XD

hmmm...i only read books once. ^^d

It depends on the book. Some books only need one or a couple passes, others require quite a few. Still others remain useful references for many years.

I agree with Kaligraphic. Also, if it's an awesome book, you can always read it a bazillion times to be an expert...Of course, I guess I'm kind of a freak when it comes to reading a good book. (Example- I am known to viciously attack classmates that are in possession of literature I want. Yes, I'm a bit eccentric, but...still...) @.@

Sometimes thick books have a lot of ideas laid bare in the open for you to ponder about. But some books, like "The Man who was Thursday", which is my favourite book, can be read twenty times and still have things worth thinking about it. I'm still trying to perceive all its enigmas because it is billed as an allegory. Actually it is probably four allegories written over each other, one over-lapsing the other. It is more allegories than one book should have but the fact that the movie is a lot of fun to read make it bareable.

The fact is not whether you should understand a book by reading it twenty times, but the fact that you enjoy trying to figure it out. What does it matter if you spend 30 years of your life studdying James Joyce's Ulysses if you don't enjoy reading a single word of it?