Voracious reader
So Art Garfunkel has put up a post of every book he’s read since 1968. Which is pretty cool. But I have to take issue with the assertion that he is a voracious reader. The man has read 1000 books in 40 years, which comes out to 25 books a year. While that is nothing to sneeze at, I wouldn’t consider it voracious. I average, in a bad year, over 50 books a year. I went through over 100 books last year and I’m on pace to put away 80 or 90 books this year (not really sure why I’ve slowed down this year). So even if we take my worst year as a baseline, I’ll go through 1000 books in 20 years or more than twice as fast as Garfunkel. This isn’t meant to be a dicksize competition, but I think referring to his progress as voracious suffers from some verbiage inflation.