It always comes as a shock to me to hear someone say, "I don't read" or "I hate reading."
It's akin to the reaction I'd feel if someone said "I drink through my finger like Mork," and then went ahead and proved it. It would be vaguely disturbing to see, and would shake my entire worldview.
That's how I feel about people who don't read.
Now, I don't read as much as I used to, or would like, because life as a full-time employee of an insanity-ridden corporation takes a lot of time an energy, but to find somebody who chooses not to read because they don't enjoy it... That's like finding Sasquatch-on-Nessie porn and being unable to look away even though you feel like you could puke.
Nothing against them as individuals, I'm sure they have virtues that I don't, but... I can't help but look over my shoulder every so often. You never know when a non-reader, or a space invader, may be stalking you.
It's akin to the reaction I'd feel if someone said "I drink through my finger like Mork," and then went ahead and proved it. It would be vaguely disturbing to see, and would shake my entire worldview.
That's how I feel about people who don't read.
Now, I don't read as much as I used to, or would like, because life as a full-time employee of an insanity-ridden corporation takes a lot of time an energy, but to find somebody who chooses not to read because they don't enjoy it... That's like finding Sasquatch-on-Nessie porn and being unable to look away even though you feel like you could puke.
Nothing against them as individuals, I'm sure they have virtues that I don't, but... I can't help but look over my shoulder every so often. You never know when a non-reader, or a space invader, may be stalking you.
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I stopped being able to read books to the end when I was about sixteen or seventeen and ended up throwing 1984 at the wall.
Now if I read I chicken out somewhere in the last chapter. I don't enjoy reading any more, even though I read avidly as a child.
So I just don't.
Funny you should mention 1984. It's what I'm in the middle of reading right now.
And it's on a subject I'm actively obsessed with. I actually read much less than I write, because even in bandom I read ships that are incredibly rare. When I started writing Joe/Patrick there were a total of five fics in the entire fandom.
I'm not so much of a crazy after all, then.
In its extreme, it can be annoying. lol
ROTFLMFAO. Maybe I'm easily amused or maybe that's the funniest thing I've read in a long time. I'd watch Sasquatch and Nessie slap skins hardcore ;)