do expert programmers read lots of book?

it seems the only way to reach satori is to read lots of books I have lying around..I have K&R, Expert C: Deep Secrets, and 2 Perl Oreilly books...would an expert really have to read all these or am I just wasting my time if I dont know it magically :( ...How many programming books do expert programmers usually read in a year or a month?

and I already know what book I'm supposed to be reading..

think about it. no matter how smart you are, it is a way to relearn by yourself what the folks at this field learnt in the past sixty years. thus you must read, unless you want to reinvent the wheel of learning (see >>11)