Why do you like reading?
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Re: Why do you like reading?
I enjoy crime/mystery/thriller books for entertainment. They are great relaxers. Lee Child, Vince Flynn, C.J. Box, Robert Dugoni, Ken Follett are favorite authors. Jack Reacher, Mitch Rapp and Joe Pickett have taken me on some fun rides!
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I love getting lost in a good read. It provides a brief escape from reality, like a mind vacation.
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Reading has been part of me. Through reading I have learn a lot and that makes me feel the real, essence of life.
Reading helps me find the small meaningful things that might affect us and also helps me understand people small sufferings
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I don't have a stressful job, but I have racing thoughts and my mind never slows or turns off. But like you I love to read because it takes me out if my head too.Eclectic_novels wrote: ↑20 Jun 2018, 00:46 I love reading because it takes me out of my head for a time. I can get away from the everyday droll of life. I have a stressful job and reading helps me leave that behind just for a little bit.
I get totally immersed in a good book to where I feel the character's feelings. For example if it's a suspense novel I get anxious like the character and I feel any pain or happiness of a character. So when I read I'm totally focused on the story, not the gazillion thoughts running through my mind.
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Yes, I agree entirely. I think when I was younger, I was drawn to reading because I was good at it; simply because I could. I started reading at three y/o with Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham. I read it like every day of my life, because I could (I can still quote half the book by memory today haha). And after I branched out, and I began reading books much higher than my reading level, I was learning things on my own now and I was taking that knowledge with me wherever I went.Pjeruto003 wrote: ↑05 Jul 2018, 00:10 Why do I love reading?
Reading has been part of me. Through reading I have learn a lot and that makes me feel the real, essence of life.
Reading helps me find the small meaningful things that might affect us and also helps me understand people small sufferings
Reading meaningful things became exciting and entertaining. Eventually I just grew to like reading a bit of everything, but, like you, I especially enjoy reading about things that can connect me to others in some way.
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All the above plus seeing into other peoples' imagination, how they view things and what they are thinking about. Are they so different from me?AJamie wrote: ↑06 Jul 2018, 09:48 I love reading for lots of reason: learning new words, building my vocabulary, learning about places I have not been to, learning the ways of the world both past and present, the suspense involve, the mystery, lesson and a lot others. To summarize I like reading because I love reading.
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I have to agree with you, and seeing things from other peoples perspectives from reading has really helped me in being a more tolerant and open minded person.sleepydumpling wrote: ↑19 Aug 2007, 21:58 I read for two reasons...
1) To escape. I love being transported to another time or place. I love that feeling of seeing or doing or experiencing something different.
2) To see things from a different perspective. I love a book that makes me think and shows me things from other people's perspectives.
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