I'm trying to understand people who don't read for pleasure.

That's a complicated question...I have a really good friend who has never read an actual book in her life....she just read the synopsis when required in order to pass exams at school. Didn't go to university but is a fashion designer. She has made a lot of money teaching design at home and built a three storey mansion but still insists that her life would not be enriched by reading a book of any kind. She's a quantifier. She's visual, good at maths but hated English at school. Maybe the world is divided into three types of people .. those who quantify and like maths and find maths easy, those who find maths easy and like reading and those who loathe maths and love reading for pleasure or otherwise.

I have been in a bar w ith you and it's great. I love those conversations. Wish I'd seen this when it was written.

Do u think that might have anything to do
with what 's IN the book that she is not reading ??





David

I suppose intellectual egotists will continue to read a book that provides no pleasure simply to familiarize themselves with the ideas presented. But hey, in a sense I suppose they do this only as a way to reciprocate their own illusory ego pleasure. On another spectrum would be the non-egotists who wish to familiarize themselves with the material so they can help others understand such ideas, thus securing truth (and from there hopefully pleasure) within them.

I think it is not the social aspect that has to be blamed for those people who can read and yet doesn't want to read. I believe it is a matter of interest.And no, don't also blame the social status, it has nothing to do with it. People who doesn't enjoy wonderful literary pieces had surely missed many thing that those books could offer them. And that is something i feel sorry about

"I'm trying to understand people who don't read for pleasure."

I use to read all the time, but I can't seem to enjoy any fiction anymore. The problem is when I start a book, I get into what I am reading but then get lost in my own "improvement" of the narrative. I don't mean that I am thinking the writing sucks and that I could do better, what I mean to say is it sparks my creative thinking and I get lost in my imagination of the plot. So quickly this happens that I put away the book and just run with these thoughts. If I try to go back to the book, all it does is respark the whole process again and I simply can not get back into it.

I have basically lost the ability to just allow the story to lead and instead I want to take over and do my own thing with the characters or the plot. I do the same thing with movies.

i don't know why still people should read books! ? we can use internet instead

Huh? What did you say? Sorry, I didn't read your post there.