Why don't people understand reading?

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?

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!

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.

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.

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.

My mind makes the best backdrops for the stories. And I come up with better characters than Hollywood does. The stories take me out of my troubles. The stories add many dimensions to my life I love the feel of books. That is enough

i love reading cuz books can put you into a completly different world. They can help you get away from a bad day sometimes. They open your mind to a world of fantasy where you can experience things that could never happen in this reality and they keep you young at heart. :-D

I like both reading and writing because I can just lose myself in an imaginary world. I spend a lot of time by myself and I like to spend it reading and coming up with new story ideas. There's just something satisfying about creating a new world.

Reading vicariously takes me places and forces my mind to create the images....unllike TV.

"when you learn to read you build a refuge from almost all sorrows of life"

that's why i read....

and also because i find people and places fascinating!