Reading is fun, yes yes?
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i love love love reading 
At the mo it's the lord of the rings i'm truckin' through, until i get the next installment of anne rice's vampire chronicles that i'm up to. oscar wilde, aldous huxley and orwell also tickle my fancy, although super-depression-inducing reading gets a little grating after a few books.
At the mo it's the lord of the rings i'm truckin' through, until i get the next installment of anne rice's vampire chronicles that i'm up to. oscar wilde, aldous huxley and orwell also tickle my fancy, although super-depression-inducing reading gets a little grating after a few books.
If you like light science-fiction, you can also try Star Wars books. There are literally hundreds of them. I might suggest starting with Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy, starting with Heir to the Empire.CIA said:
(Yes, I know Star Wars is more fantasy than science fiction, but some of the books do get into the "science" behind the movies)
Someone at school has actually asked me why I like reading. I don't see why that isn't obvious right there. Before language arts classes at my school people get to read for 25 minutes. Just guess how many people talked in that time. I am actually running out of books I would like to read because I read to fast. 377 pages in about 1 and a half days of reading. No I didn't read that long but in that period of time. I am amazed that people don't like reading. The stories fascinate me and they sometimes open emotional spots for me I didn't know I had until I read a book
When I was in second grade, my teacher came upon the idea to bribe me into doing my schoolwork by promising me free reading time if and when I finished. It worked brilliantly.
In other words, hell yes. I've loved reading probably ever since my dad started reading me The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings as bedtime stories.
In other words, hell yes. I've loved reading probably ever since my dad started reading me The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings as bedtime stories.
I love reading and usually start a new book every week. Not because these books are short or anything but its just that i am constantly reading (my teachers hate it when they find me reading instead of doing work). i have friends that say that they hate reading and i just can't understand that. i can find nothing bad or un-fun about about reading.
first this is a pretty stupid question. It is like asking why do you like the things you do and dislike other things. Every one has different taste. Assuming that something you enjoy and have made a big part of your life is the same for other people is actually more disturbing then most will realize.
But a simpler answer is probably that humans are visual creatures, through and through, That is why highly visual forms of entertainment are more popular
But a simpler answer is probably that humans are visual creatures, through and through, That is why highly visual forms of entertainment are more popular
I found the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Boring, however, when I read "Tom Clancy's" "the Bear and the Dragon" MY DAD said I should probably choose smaller books for classwork, so that I could do less work. Imagine the look on his face when he found out it wasn't for schoolwork!NeutralDrow said:
Schools, thankfully are getting into more recent literature, which should help. I just subbed and English class this year reading Crichton's Jurassic Park. And although I loved reading, I hated the deadlines, classes set for you. Having to read three - four chapters a night, while not a large amount, could easily put me to sleep if I was reading something like "The Scarlet Letter." Right now I'm reading Lovecraft, and liking it, but I bet if I had to read it for school it would put me to sleep.
I love Vonnegut books, but I do not really like to read physical books much. Not that I do not like reading, as I read ALOT, just the reading is either forum posts, internet articles, wikipedia pages, or game text. Though I love reading the books in the TES games, but those are just short stories really. Short short stories. But I can spend hours on wikipedia reading about random things. (Usually I get interested in learning about some whatever, then I go down a path of links to other pages I find interesting and eventually end up on a page having nothing to do with the origional thing I searched)
Reading's good, but reading for reading's sake (or trying to seem clever and sophisticated) is daft.
You've got to read good books.
You've got to read good books.
I'm happy that schools are starting to support newer books kids like. Recently I went to barnes and noble looking for world war z and I looked around in the fiction section didn't find it soon I went down to the desk asked the employee where it was and she showed me where and guess where it was. Not the fiction or horror sections BUT in the required reading section. I loved world war Z it was entertaining it's a zombie book afterall and now it's required school reading somewhere
