Why do you like reading?

Wulaishiwo2 · Post by **Wulaishiwo2** » 10 Mar 2011, 23:26

The most important reason: the smell of book is dilicious
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StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 13 Mar 2011, 11:10

Wulaishiwo2 wrote:The most important reason: the smell of book is dilicious
lol~~~~~~~

Its even nicer from the library.....Mmmmm, yellow

Zekes · Post by **Zekes** » 16 Mar 2011, 22:45

I like reading because I'd get to know more characters and new stories. And it feels like I'm also in the story.

Kevinfelixlee · Post by **Kevinfelixlee** » 17 Mar 2011, 00:24

simepley, Reading makes a full man.

Avid Reader · Post by **Avid Reader** » 01 Oct 2011, 13:38

Because we are here for such a short amount of time and can benefit from a lifetime of someone else's experience by reading a book. I've never started a book that I didn't finish because they all tell you something. you just have to read and absorb it.

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 01 Oct 2011, 20:18

I read to escape into a fantasy world and get away from the grind of every day living for a while. I also read for information.

ferretbait · Post by **ferretbait** » 01 Oct 2011, 21:51

Its a cool thing to think what if the things in this book were to really happen to me/the world? I would love to be in Maximum Ride, The House of Night, or The City Of Bones.

Dragonflytears · Post by **Dragonflytears** » 05 Oct 2011, 12:57

I go to my happy place when I'm reading

Holden_Caulfield · Post by **Holden_Caulfield** » 13 Oct 2011, 15:09

Escapism, entertainment, recreation, aquiring knowledge, and the feeling of accomplishment. : )

naragus · Post by **naragus** » 13 Oct 2011, 19:21

Bighuey wrote:I read to escape into a fantasy world and get away from the grind of every day living for a while. I also read for information.

That´s it. If I like the book, nobody else exists. I can barely wait for the moment to go back to it again. Still books help me understand the real world also.

kellydouglas · Post by **kellydouglas** » 13 Oct 2011, 23:24

Reading is my passion. I like to read story books and i just love to read love stories.

naragus · Post by **naragus** » 16 Oct 2011, 07:43

Star wrote:.. I can become those characters that I love..I can fall in love (without getting my heart actually broken)..go on grand adventures..solve a mystery..anything! And I never have to leave my comfort of my home if I wish...I simply open a book

That was good. And you actually feel a deja vu of joy, love, sadness, pain like the character you are emotionally involved with. And when the book finish you miss it.

Bookwurms · Post by **Bookwurms** » 27 Jan 2012, 15:04

I live in my head a lot and reading is an extension of that! It takes me places and I experience things I never would in reality! LOL! It's always a good way to relax, calm down and rest after a day at work!

SamIAm23 · Post by **SamIAm23** » 28 Jan 2012, 21:01

I read because I like to go into my own mind, and just imagine what the characters may look like or how the scene that I am reading about may look. I like to read because I can use my imagination and no one can tell me that its not right. I am my own judge

Amphigory · Post by **Amphigory** » 28 Jan 2012, 21:15

Depends on the kind of book I'm reading! But first and foremost because no other form of art (and here I include all forms of language-smithery, prose and poetry alike), with the possible exception of music, can make me feel so utterly inside a person or a place or a mood — so that I am not only connected to it, but also thinking within that landscape. Film is wonderful, but I'm almost always highly conscious of the medium itself (those people are there behind the screen, while I'm sitting here in another place and time), and it can't dwell on beautiful, simple things (the way water ripples, for instance) without either failing and boring me, or drawing attention to itself. Books can put me inside a place by connecting directly with my mind, and that makes them special.

Babble aside: sometimes it's to be dragged by the hair through a story, to laugh, to luxuriate in the way one word is put after another — but more often than not (in fact, always!) it's simply for the fun of it.