Poll: Do you like reading?

[SnowyGamester]

Love reading. Hate books. Where is that option?

 

[Bat Vader]

Ever since I was a child I have loved to read books. A book I am reading right now is called The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Black Seas of Infinity.

 

[M Rotter]

I love reading, and i love reading anything. Science fiction, literature, fantasy, history, biographies, historical fiction. All fiction and non-fiction i suppose...easier to say...yes...

 

[DaphneRose]

I have a brilliant friend who simply hates reading. But it's never been a problem for him. He just sits down to a test and discerns what the book was about from the questions and then, somehow, pulls out the highest grade in the class every single time.

If it helps, he's just an audio type of person. The written word is a bore for him.

 

[Jordi]

Now, I ask this question because I thought most people like to read. You know, except for the adolescents who constantly complain about book assignments. Anyways, I discovered that one of my friends just doesn't like reading. He says he can't imagine just reading for fun.

So that got me wondering if you Escapists enjoy reading. Well...do ya?

I'm pretty sure that those book assignments have ruined reading for me. In elementary/primary school I used to read a LOT. We had book assignments of course, but they could be about any book you wanted. In high school, we had to do reports on books that were considered "literature" (as opposed to the much nicer "lecture"). I hated every single one of the books I had to read, and I think this taught me to thoroughly hate books. The internet, television and the fact that more was going on in my life showed me better alternatives for entertainment.

On occasion, usually when I'm on holiday with little to do and no other entertainment media, I will read a book and be reminded that it isn't as bad as I thought it would be. But then again, those are mostly fantasy novels (LotR, HP and a few others). I wouldn't dream of ever touching "literature" again.

Edit: Oh, and by the way: books don't really contain knowledge by definition. If I browse Wikipedia for an hour I will learn much more than you will if you're reading Harry Potter (or basically any other novel).

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I love reading. Haven't done as much of it as I would like to recently, though. Bad Red Eyes! Get off this forum and go start up Wonder Boys! Now!

 

[Riobux]

Occasionally I try to read, but lately I've struggled for time to be able to just sit down and read. The only reading I've done the past few months have been of books for my university course.

 

[Iznat]

Those options weren't quite how I felt >_> But yes, I enjoy reading an awful, awful lot. The shame is, I never have time to read, unless I'm in the bathroom ;_;

What a bummer, huh?





:3

 

[Revolutionary]

Books I like are few and far between, and half of them are graphic novels. However I get really involved once I find something I like.

 

[franconbean]

I enjoy reading books to the point that I have started to write one