Do you like reading books?

No, not at all, I've never been interested in a novel enough to get past the first page. I've tried many times to get into different books, but my mind drifts off after the first paragraph.

YES this is me too!


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Wow. I really don't know how my life would be like if I did not have the opportunity to escape into the plot of a good book once in a while. It helps keep me sane. Maybe the novels you have picked up so far are boring. Have you tried sci-fi, horror(R.L Stines, Goosebumps is a nice place to start

You're like me except from the last part. I read mostly fiction but the part about concocting stories in my head and daydreaming for hours is becoming a problem for my parents. Cause sometimes I would just think of a really funny line(...well...funny to me) and just start laughing out loud. Sometimes I get so into the daydream I speak out loud so it looks like I am talking to myself and slowly losing my mind.

Yes, i've tried reading Goosebumps, I can't get into it. I have many sci fi books which I picked up because they were on sale some include, Robot Blues, The Spear of Mars, Requiem of Stars , Battlefield 3 (Andy Mcnab) and perseus spur. All of which haven't interested me past the first page.

It's awesome right?! It's really hard to get bored.
I definitely relate to the parent thing. I do the exact same things. It doesn't help that my parents work in mental health.
I'm not even lying, my mum has expressed worry. I mean she doesn't think mad or anything. But she worries that I could lose my mind. Also doesn't help that she's had a few patients who study Maths, which is what I study, and I apparently have the same habit as one of her patients. But then again, she is the type of person to worry about everything.
We're perfectly sane

****. No offense but I am seriously glad I don't have your problem. I am aware that some books can be boring. If you cannot hook me within the first five lines(cause i learnt you cannot really depend on prologues) I will drop the book. I tend to avoid books with sad or dissatisfying endings cause they leave a bad taste that will stay with me for weeks or even months and i am very irritable in that time period. What about comic comedy, as in the Archie comics. They are funny.

Glad to find someone who enjoys reading just as much as I do! I could spend an entire day in a book store haha and it was a good book, I seemed to enjoy it.I still want to know what the 3 words were at the end of the book :P and I guess there are some books that not everyone enjoys,luckily there are so many more to choose from

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I only remember enjoying one book, about eight years ago I read the falcon's malteser, which is a spoof book. But generally when I read a novel, I can read the text but it just doesn't sink in; for example if I were to read a non fiction book, I would be able to read every word without a problem, but if you were to ask me what the book was about I would have absolutely no idea, this doesn't happen with newspaper articles or anything non - fiction. I don't know maybe I have a reading disability or something.

Haha. I swear I think my dad has a psychiatric hospital on speed dial. He is genuinely worried for my sanity and so is my sister. I was starting to think maybe this ''problem'' was only exclusive to me. My parents think its a foundation to lead to other serious mental issues like schizophrenia. I try to watch myself cause now apparently I do it in public. I have caught myself once or twice myself smiling into thin air at a story I have up in my head.
And I totally agree. We are perfectly sane . Heeheeheehee

Hello! So I love to read books and I always have enjoyed reading ever since I learnt how to read. It gives a chance for me to escape reality and travel into another world for a while I have a huge collection of books and I was just wondering if anyone else loves reading just as much as I do. I finished reading the book "Eleanor and Park" a couple of days ago and now I am reading "Paper Towns"

I LOVE reading, although, over the past year, the 'why' has changed.

For reasons alike to yours, I used to lose myself in wonderful fictional worlds. What I adored perhaps was the escapism!

Now, I'm reading mostly non-fiction (currently 'On Palestine'), and I'm loving the feeling of ever increasing wisdom. The best part? I'll never know anywhere near enough. Although imagination might sadly start to dwindle as ages pass, this kind of pleasure from reading will never subside.

Currently going through all the Tolkein stuff atm, on the Unfinished Tales, they're

Yes, i've tried reading Goosebumps, I can't get into it. I have many sci fi books which I picked up because they were on sale some include, Robot Blues, The Spear of Mars, Requiem of Stars , Battlefield 3 (Andy Mcnab) and perseus spur. All of which haven't interested me past the first page.

It's always escapism for me, I live in different worlds everyday and books help me create such solid, concrete worlds that I forget everything - forget being, existing.

When I was younger, upon having an argument with my parents, I'd storm upstairs to immerse myself in a book and, when having finished it, I'd go downstairs and forget I was meant to be mad at them before they'd point it out

These days, I can't travel anywhere without my journal, my poetry+song book and the book I'm reading at the time. They feel like friends to me, entities.

Rn i'm reading "Manufacturing Consent - The Political Economy of the Mass Media" as well as "The Shock Doctrine"

I'd LOVE to get into having a journal. but I just fear someone getting a hold of it and I try to travel light so I don't keep a bag with me.

interesting books. is that for studies or just personal reading?

Tolkeins really hit and miss for me. I have to say I had to throw in the towel reading the two towers. first half was awesome but the bit with sam n frodo just got too much for me.

Hows unfinished tales?

you into the conan books? or lovecraft?

I'm a complete slag for books.
I love everything.
I like a lot of books that involve issues of war. like when things fall apart by chinua achebe or slaughter house 5.
mind bending stuff like naked lunch.
love historical both non fiction and fiction. quite an obsession with genghis khan so I like the conquerer series by collin iggleden (its fiction about ghenghis khan) and Genghis Khan by John Man which is a bit like a travel diary/history book. its pretty cool its like michael palins travel books. those i like too.
I like old literature as well. I feel it allows insight into ways of old thinking and viewing the world. classic fairy tales and cultural folk law like books from the pantheon folklore library. Also love H.P Lovecraft n Robert E. Howard. Although lovecrafts obvious racism can be a stumbling block for some people i personally just find it so ignorant and old fashioned that it becomes hilarious. also find religious books interesting to read as theyve had so much impact on the world. a long with philosophy both western and eastern old and new.

really geekily like osprey military books...

and other more geeky stuff like guides on how to learn things. social work books and greys anatomy. the kind of things sherlock holmes would probably have lying around. Like books on wood carving and all sorts.

I would be more than happy to just live on a sunny beach in a wooden hut reading all day.

oh i like political books to. reading fidel castros commentary on the first year of obamas rule in america is hilarious. it just boils to him saying cubas great and america sucks but in a really extravagant way. or gaddafis green book.

and oh yea i also like biographies like malcom x or pimp

infact theres not much i don't like. except maybe misery lit.



Same. I sucked at reading and then one day I just became interested. read the hobbit and loved the escapism. the I became interested in how books could help me cope with my difficult surroundings and started looking at books from other people who had survived them. got into philosophy n what not.

Love history n world affair books too. If you like reading on palestine you you might be interested in Not the enemy Book by Rachel Shabi is quite interesting. its about how non white jews get second class treatment in israel. so not quite palestine but similar region. I guess the two things are intertwined.



Tolkeins really hit and miss for me. I have to say I had to throw in the towel reading the two towers. first half was awesome but the bit with sam n frodo just got too much for me.

Hows unfinished tales?

you into the conan books? or lovecraft?



what kind of stuff do you like to watch on tv/on film? that might be a place to see what your into.

It's not a diary journal per se where I document my day of events, more so a collection of thoughts and art work. I think you should attempt to keep one, it's very satisfying.

Personal reading (: