Tuesday, August 19, 2008

How to read

I really enjoyed reading this article “How to read” because it was so true and I could relate to it a lot. Some of the important parts I comprehend where:
A.)Put the book down, says Nick Hornby: Reading should be a joy. B.) I am simply pointing out my own tastes and limitations as a reader. C.) And boredom, let's face it, is a problem that many of us have come to associate with books. It's one of the reasons why we choose to do almost anything else rather than read; very few of us pick up a book after the children are in bed and the dinner has been made and the dirty dishes cleared away. D.) We'd rather turn on the television. Some evenings we'd rather go to all the trouble of getting into a car and driving to a cinema, or waiting for a bus that might take us somewhere near one. E.) We'd rather turn on the television. Some evenings we'd rather go to all the trouble of getting into a car and driving to a cinema, or waiting for a bus that might take us somewhere near one.
I picked these statements because they explain exactly what I think about reading. I think reading is fun when I’m interested in it and I can relate to it. When I’m reading something that doesn’t catch my attention at all, I think of other things and not pay attention at all to what I’m reading. I think this article is very important for people my age to read because Hornby’s words are so true. He knows exactly what people think about reading. There wasn’t one thing he said that I really didn’t agree with especially about boredom. The man thing that happens to me when I read, I find myself bored with the topic and I hate it because I never comprehend the facts and I have to re-read it many different times just to understand it. I also like how he was talking about the adults who would read a couple of pages of a book a night and wont finish it for weeks, months, or even years. I found that interesting because I have never thought of that because I used to do that with Harry Potter and I still to this day haven’t finished it. “Please, please: put it down. You'll never finish it. Start something else.”

1 comment:

amypfan said...

I agree. Hornby is right. I'm an adult, and an English teacher, so you'd think that I'd know better by now, but I do sometimes still try to force myself not read things that bore me. "Put the book down!!" How are you liking High Fidelity?