Why don't people understand reading?

I mean I love Harry potter and of course many other books. But why don't others? Reading makes me feel, oh I'm not sure, kind of light. Tell me stories of why you love reading. And please keep it short I don't want to read paragraphs and paragraphs.Thanks.

babydoll2007-02-03T06:44:00Z

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Many people do not understand reading because they don't know how to picture what's going on in the story. If they can't make a mental picture of the action and the places and people, then they unfortunately, are unable to grasp it and after a very short time they realize it and quit.
I love reading because as I'm doing it suddenly, I am riding on a broom flying through the air, faster and higher than everyone else...
You get the idea. I am watching my very own mental movie as I read and it's perfect, because it's mine, and no one can take it away from me or change it the way they want it. It is a fabulous gift isn't it?

awanderingelf2007-02-01T19:09:53Z

Reading is my escape from the 'real' world. When I read, I don't have to think about my bad day at work, the bills I have to pay, the argument I had with my son, my daughter's bad grades, what's going to happen tomorrow. I can finally RELAX! And I can go to another world and have adventures, do things that I normally would not get the chance to do, meet all sorts of people. I don't understand why some people don't read, I think it's kind of sad actually. Imagine being stuck in reality all the time! lol Gives me the shivers just thinking of it!

atalanta2016-11-02T06:30:53Z

The language of nineteenth century novels isn't too distant from cutting-edge English. the version is in tone - greater formal - yet nowhere close to as stressful as Shakespeare. Jane Eyre is an undemanding study. Wuthering Heights much less so. Dickens has an certain voice - an "omniscient narrator" point of view - that the reader can very particularly have faith, yet his books are very long. ok in case you want to immerse your self in a richly suggested worldwide for a protracted time. Thomas Hardy may well be an excellent author to start up with.

Sartoris2007-02-01T19:34:01Z

I have been many places, in many times, with many different people. I have explored the multi-verse. I've been to Oz, Middle Earth, Hogwarts, Mars, Ancient Rome, London with Sherlock Holmes, Los Angeles with Phillip Marlowe,India with Harry Flashman, and many others. I have listened to the words of Shakespeare,Euripides, Freud, Poe, Hawthorne, Dickens, London, Melville, Verne, and many others right from their mouths. I love to read because I can go anywhere, do anything, be anybody, learn anything and never leave my favorite chair. I read history, biography,poetry,science,science fiction, westerns, mysteries, trivia, classics, erotica, and even a healthy dose of crap. It is all there, between those covers, these many worlds and they are always new. I don't know why people don't understand reading, and I feel sorry for them.

Yuffie K2007-02-02T20:19:45Z

Some people think life revolves around physical actions, so sitting down and reading a chapter book is really weird for them. Then have a harder time reading for twenty minuets than they do running 20 miles. They never really got hooked on the best drug ever (reading, of course) and they just grew up without it. I'd feel sorry for those people if they weren't such dumb-asses.

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