Sport and Recreation

[ValiX]

The thread dedicated to everything to do with reading

I used to read heaps when I was younger - through the primary and early high school days. However in the last few years I've become slack and not bothered reading any novels, books or even magazines at all, save for the occasional newspaper when I can be bothered picking it up.

However I recently decided to complete a set of books by buying the last one in the series after finding it in Borders. Flicking through a few pages and I've been drawn in again!

So my questions, fellow forumers, are this:

What do you read? Novels? Newspapers? ebooks? Magazines?

Do read anything at all?

What are reading at the moment?

Talk about and share your favourite novel, story, article - anything all all.

[The_Diclonius]

Yay! Cool thread.

I love reading, I can waste a whole day just lounging around reading a book. Reading really is one of life's great pleasures imho. It's quite sad though that not very many of my friends read books and they all think I'm weird because I enjoy reading so much!

Anyway... I just finished reading "The Kite Runner" the other day. It's an amazing book which I highly recommend for anyone who hasn't read it. I've already decided that I'm going to read "The Shadow of the Wind" next which I will probably start on tomorrow seeing as I don't start work until late.

[Hasan-I]

Read "The Kite Runner" for school like 2 months ago lol.
When i was younger i used to like reading, i did so because i could not sleep.
But now i do not really read anymore, i would rather watch a movie or something? haha

[gavsta72]

I'm not a fan of reading, these days I only read the local newspaper and the constant supply of junkmail in the letterbox 

Oh and of course these forums......

[Mulletino]

I normally only read when on holiday and it's usually books from the Star Wars universe. Takes me ages to get through them though, sometimes by the time i've picked it up again i've forgotten what happened previously so have to start again. Of late (well on my last holiday) i've been reading the Sharpe range of books by Bernard Conwell, they're quite enjoyable.

[rcoll_rorscharch]

I read a lot more books when I was younger, things like Goosebumps and different kids books. It was great at the time, it made me appreciate language and build up a solid vocabulary. Nowadays most of my reading is on the internet. I guess around about late primary school / early high school I got bored of novels, I outgrew the Harry Potter series (I know it's an all-ages thing but nevertheless I outgrew them) and I guess the Twilight saga and Dan Brown phenomenons have left a bad impression as to the state of contemporary novella. It's being picky and I know everyone has different tastes, but unlike mainstream movies or music novels have a literary aspect which attracts the thinking, more intellectual people of the world.It's like anything else though, there's heaps of crap out there, dig down a bit and you'll find plenty of gold.

Newspapers and news sites are the catalyst of why people have no faith in the education system. It's cringe-worthy to see respected newspapers make simple grammatical mistakes. I dunno how they worked it out but studies found the over time the Courier Mail (Queensland's newspaper) went from a reading age of sixteen down to twelve. It's got to be deliberate, there's no way someone with a degree in journalism would have the normal writing style of someone in early high school.

I actually really like threads on here where the subject matter is good. There are very few writing proses with the same power as the prose of opinion.

[tjohn323]

does pornos count LMAO

(cleary joking)

I love reading, I seem to be reading less

fiction though of late.

Delving much more into history and

science reading.

[RandAPle4]

Science fiction mostly,

Lately I've taken to listening to audio books during my drive to and from work every day. They're great! Totally changed my commute. Those traffic reports on the radio were never any use anyway.

Just finished The Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell.

[baby19doc]

Hmmm I don't read enough lol

I find myself reading teen/kid novels because they are just lying around some are good others........are bad lol. Other than that I read these forums and also the OPS mag.

[Deamonpainter]

Been a bit lax at the moment, but i love books.

Mostly read Historical novels, but Harry Potter is in my top list.

Can't wait for Dave Mustaine's autobiography!!