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Things, like novels, textbooks, long magazine/newspaper articles, or REALLY long posts/threads?

I get bored easily by it. If I hear about a good novel, I simply look it up on Wikipedia, read the plot synopsis, and be done with it. I don't feel like trudging through pages and pages of imagery, character descriptions, and other nitty-gritty details that I don't care about at all.

And when it comes to college textbooks, I can't bother to read more than 3 pages at a time. And I give up the instant that I fail to understand what something means. I usually get by with good grades anyways, so no biggie.
 
If something is interesting I'll read it otherwise I'll just re read a sentence over and over and over while I think about something more interesting.. I can't be forced to read something, the info doesn't sink in.
 
ShadowArmy said:
Things, like novels, textbooks, long magazine/newspaper articles, or REALLY long posts/threads?

I get bored easily by it. If I hear about a good novel, I simply look it up on Wikipedia, read the plot synopsis, and be done with it. I don't feel like trudging through pages and pages of imagery, character descriptions, and other nitty-gritty details that I don't care about at all.

And when it comes to college textbooks, I can't bother to read more than 3 pages at a time. And I give up the instant that I fail to understand what something means. I usually get by with good grades anyways, so no biggie.
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You're the result of our flashy image, americanised, media.
 
I wondered why I read forums alot but dislike other reading material. But then I realized that to finish reading one post and moving on to the next is the equivilent of transitioning to a different chapter/section. And lurking in a different thread is like putting a book down and switching to a whole other book. And it all happens very quickly given the size of posts/threads.
 
I really only like reading things that interest me. It grinds my gears when I had to read incredibly boring books for school. What irritated me the most was reading like 3 or 4 pages, then coming to and realizing you don't remember anything you just read, and having to read it again.
 
Op and I are twins.

I really only like reading things that interest me. It grinds my gears when I had to read incredibly boring books for school. What irritated me the most was reading like 3 or 4 pages, then coming to and realizing you don't remember anything you just read, and having to read it again.
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I have the biggest problem with this and sometimes wonder if it's only me. It only seems to happen with textbooks, where i'm having to remember something for a test or the like.
 
I read a lot, but I can't say I read any educational stuff. I take notes, and read them.
 
I always act like I dislike reading for some reason. tbh, I don't mind it at all. Especially when I'm reading something interesting, or something that grabs my attention. The only time I'm discouraged to read is when the text is very small.
 
Absolutely love reading. With long posts, I can tell how good it will be by the first paragraph and decide from that whether I want to read the rest.
 
I like reading as long as it's non-fiction and on a subject I'm interested in.
 
I hate reading textbooks. I actually used to read them when I started high school, but stopped after a couple of years. I usually refer to them only when my notes aren't good enough.

I enjoy novels though. Used to stay up reading 'til my eyes hurt. I feel like I've been having trouble focusing lately though. Attempted to read To the White Sea a couple of times over the past few months, but quit only 50-100 pages in. I'm still not sure if it was the book itself, or if my attention span is getting shorter.
 
Solaris said:
You're the result of our flashy image, americanised, media.
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Or maybe his mind is build so it learns/studies/whatever through more practical, hands-on means rather than reading walls of text and remembering it later.
 
After going through highschool I never wanted to read another novel again. Almost every book they made us read was about slavery or people escaping from slavery. Yeah, its interesting and yeah we need to know about it, but every ****ing book we read was about it, and that really just knocked the wind out of my reading enthusiasm. I've only read a handful since high school really.

But reading in general is shweet. Love me some tutorials, or anything informative. And long posts are fine so long as they're interesting.
 
Not enjoying reading probably means you're stupid. The only real alternative is that you're a woefully misguided 21st century media addict who's so engulfed and overwhelmed by the pace and volume of flashy modern TV and internets that you've overlooked the basic things that really matter.
 
Ennui said:
Not enjoying reading probably means you're stupid. The only real alternative is that you're a woefully misguided 21st century media addict who's so engulfed and overwhelmed by the pace and volume of flashy modern TV and internets that you've overlooked the basic things that really matter.
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Holy presumptions, batman. He's stupid because western logocentrism is the only way to go, right? Right?
 
The only time I ever really read is when I'm on the shitter or a passenger in a vehicle that's going on a long trip.
But, if what I'm reading is good enough then I usually take an hour or so out of my day to sit down/lie down and just get lost in the text.
 
ITT: People who are doing exactly the opposite of the OP
 
I like reading, for the most part. However, when it comes to frankly painful textbooks (such as the one I've got for my course on politics in developing nations this semester, which is really heavy going and seems to bypass any actual political thought for simply throwing statistics at the reader) I tend to be rather less keen.
 
Just lengthy forum posts that are not interesting at all. Like get to the ****ing point, jackass.
 
I do read a lot, but I don't read fiction. Only magazines, articles, catalogs, reviews, news and information. I read a lot of fiction when I was a child, but I don't really have time for books.
 
I love reading. Novels, magazines, articles, I read them all. I can barely stand it if I don't have some bit of reading to tickle my brain... I'd get bored otherwise. I'm always looking for new stuff to read but I can be VERY picky.

I've learned a few things.

1) We do not talk/go into the Romance section
2) We do not talk/go into the Romance section
3) With only a few rare exceptions everything in the young adult section is either crap or crapy 'girl-porn' (i.e. moody male protagonists who don't like wearing shirts... normally they have fangs, wings, or turn into a wolf on the full moon.)
4) Know what you want before you go that way you can ignore whole sections of the store.
5) Get recommendations from friends and family... they are the most reliable.
6) The literature section is hit and miss.
 
Viperidae said:
Holy presumptions, batman. He's stupid because western logocentrism is the only way to go, right? Right?
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Logocentrism is favoring speech over writing ;P and I don't see what's western about written language anyway. My point is that there is a LOT of perspective/knowledge/etc to be gained through reading in a manner that you can't necessarily replicate through other forms of media (just as film or games can communicate in ways written language cannot), so if you're ignoring books it's probably out of ignorance/stupidity/lack of necessity rather than from having supplanted the potential benefits thereof through some other means. You know I like to be superlative and rake the muck up a bit, don't be nitpicky :p
 
Wiki said:
Logocentrism is often confused with phonocentrism, which more specifically refers to the privileging of speech over writing.
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And I was speaking mainly toward Western's bias toward words as a means for literally everything, in contrast to a lot of Eastern philosophy.
 
I don't know whether I should feel sad or angry at this thread.

ShadowArmy said:
I get bored easily by it. If I hear about a good novel, I simply look it up on Wikipedia, read the plot synopsis, and be done with it. I don't feel like trudging through pages and pages of imagery, character descriptions, and other nitty-gritty details that I don't care about at all.
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Oh god.
 
Corp. Sheepo said:
I don't know whether I should feel sad or angry at this thread.
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You should be Sangry!

Tbh, I used to hate reading, seemed like a chore. The I found some really good stories about war (Tom Clancy, W.E.B. Griffin) and started really enjoying it. The past 8 months I've read about 5 novels, going through my sixth now (The Phantom Blooper: A story of Vietnam)

You have to find something you like, dont let the books you have to read for school misguide you. There are some REALLY good books out there.

Also, you read almost all the time while on the internets.
 
FrostedxB said:
You should be Sangry!

Tbh, I used to hate reading, seemed like a chore. The I found some really good stories about war (Tom Clancy, W.E.B. Griffin) and started really enjoying it. The past 8 months I've read about 5 novels, going through my sixth now (The Phantom Blooper: A story of Vietnam)

You have to find something you like, dont let the books you have to read for school misguide you. There are some REALLY good books out there.

Also, you read almost all the time while on the internets.
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There are so many good war novels. If you haven't read Band of Brothers, definitely do - it's as good as the miniseries and more informative. Everything by Stephen Ambrose is good, all very accessible historical stuff. Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried is a great bit of creative nonfiction about his experiences in Vietnam. Heart of Darkness isn't exactly about war but is good to check out anyway, it's the thematic basis for Apocalypse Now. If you don't care about literature and all that, some great fluffy reading for WAR WAR WAR is the Gaunt's Ghost series (Warhammer 40k universe) by Dan Abnett.
 
reading is for nerds and gay homosexuals like everyone else on this gay forum















I'm impatiently waiting for Metro 2033/2034 and reading through Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories.
 
Heck I love reading.

I love it so much that I don't do it anymore; it's so addictive that once I sat down for 10 hours straight and read the entiriety of "Totalitarianism Comparisons of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia", which I admit was a hard read, what with 900+ pages and several chapters full of statistics. But it was fascinating. Unfortunately, in that 10 hour period, I missed 2 meals, and forgot to do my chores and homework.

Nowadays, I just grab a book to read during the mandatory chapel at uni. Still haven't finished Chapterhouse: Dune, and I begun reading a month ago! And I read the 6th Harry Potter book in 3 hours. It's sad that I'm unable to do the thing that I really loved to do because of time constraints and me logging on to HL2.net.
 
TollBooth Willie said:
I wish I had the attention span to read a book for 10 straight hours.
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Ah that.

Well, it helps if you don't have internet connection. I didn't at the time; they were doing some maintenance or something. :p Also, I don't have a TV, so the only thing I could do was get that book from the library I borrowed to read over a few weeks and read it.

Seriously, before the internet, I was addicted to reading. Now the internet fills in for that. I don't really read much anymore. It's sad.
 
I used to be all about some mutha f*ckin books. Goosebumps was my life. I USED TO CHECK OUT EVERY DINOSAUR RELATED BOOK AT THE LIBRARY EVEN. Then you assholes came along.
 
People who don't enjoy reading are deluding themselves, they just haven't read the right book(s)
 
I enjoy reading, but I rarely read novels. I'll read magazines, articles, papers, tutorials, etc., but for me to be truly engulfed in a book is very uncommon. I honestly wish I did enjoy reading books more. When I do actually find a novel I'm interested in reading (usually though a cosmic reverberation or wormhole) I'll run through it in a few days. I truly get sucked into it.
 
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