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PostSubject: Why Some People Don't Read   Why Some People Don't Read EmptyMon Aug 10, 2009 6:29 am

I stole this link from James Lincoln Warren's excellent column today on www.criminalbrief.com. Check this link to learn why some people, even professional readers, are having difficulty reading today.
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PostSubject: Re: Why Some People Don't Read   Why Some People Don't Read EmptyMon Aug 10, 2009 6:40 am

Dear Dick,
Great article.

Love,
Betty
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PostSubject: Re: Why Some People Don't Read   Why Some People Don't Read EmptyMon Aug 10, 2009 6:49 am

That guy hasn't stopped reading. He's just reading non-book stuff. Priorities change as we get older, and that includes our choice of reading material.
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PostSubject: Re: Why Some People Don't Read   Why Some People Don't Read EmptyMon Aug 10, 2009 7:01 am

LC wrote:
That guy hasn't stopped reading. He's just reading non-book stuff. Priorities change as we get older, and that includes our choice of reading material.

And our choices are based on the purpose for our reading. I think that's what the author meant, that reading as contemplation gets harder when there are so many stimuli to distract us. People get so caught up in "doing," they can't relax and enjoy just "being," which is what contemplative reading is all about.

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PostSubject: Re: Why Some People Don't Read   Why Some People Don't Read EmptyMon Aug 10, 2009 7:10 am

Good analysis, Ann

I do my best reading on a plane.
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PostSubject: Re: Why Some People Don't Read   Why Some People Don't Read EmptyMon Aug 10, 2009 7:19 am

Ann, his article assumes lots of people did lots of contemplative reading in the first place. Can that be proven and quantified?

I think with the advent of the internet, people are doing more reading than ever before. Articles like his assume that all the people who are reading Twitter and social networking sites would be reading War and Peace if those sites didn't exist. I think they'd just be watching TV.
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PostSubject: Re: Why Some People Don't Read   Why Some People Don't Read EmptyMon Aug 10, 2009 7:40 am

Many people do not even know how to read now.
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PostSubject: Re: Why Some People Don't Read   Why Some People Don't Read EmptyMon Aug 10, 2009 8:46 am

Good article.

I know someone who took a box of books to an inpatient treatment program thirty years ago. Such was the importance of reading and books to this person.

I read more than I ever have, just not in books. I read articles, emails, about my kids on facebook. I look at photos and listen to words.

I also read the article on criminal brief. I liked where he said things happen to us "willy nilly." That is for sure.

Both articles touch on loss of control, surrender. I have learned the importance of both later in life. I am a victim of "willy nilly" happenings all around me.

Writing to me is taking control, until I get lost in the writing and the words take over and mysteriously appear on my computer as from some other entity or universe.

Carol

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PostSubject: Re: Why Some People Don't Read   Why Some People Don't Read EmptyMon Aug 10, 2009 11:54 am

Writers, readers, and experts. Few writers will ever see the golden city of famous writers. Those of us who do will be remembered far different then we are.

Fifty, one hundred, and more years from today, some expert will write about us, or speak about our greatness in detail.

What a crock of BS that will be. If you of the future find what we have written on this forum, dust it off. For here is the truth. Read the works of William Shakespeare...hold our books high, and whisper,"You were like I am, and I shall be like you are." We were not great. We wrote on the wind. Don't read our stories for pleasure...look for the sub-plot we have hidden in our writing. That is who we where.
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PostSubject: Re: Why Some People Don't Read   Why Some People Don't Read EmptyMon Aug 10, 2009 2:58 pm

L.C., the writer of that article is the book editor of the Los Angeles Times. He should know something about the subject and he has to read books.
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PostSubject: Re: Why Some People Don't Read   Why Some People Don't Read EmptyTue Aug 11, 2009 7:10 am

Well, if this guy is a newspaper book editor and says he doesn't read books anymore, seems like he ought to find a new job.
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