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Thread: Why do you read books?

  1. 01-04-2010, 07:00 PM #16
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    Default Re: Why do you read books?

    Quote Originally Posted by katnis View Post
    Actually I've never tried to read something before sleeping coz if I'm taking by what I read I'll never fall asleep lol
    That can happen too, I find that regardless of what I'm reading. The act of reading calms my mind down and makes it easier to just doze off.
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  2. 01-04-2010, 08:48 PM #17
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    Default Re: Why do you read books?

    Escapism.

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  3. 01-05-2010, 07:09 PM #18
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    Default Re: Why do you read books?

    Becuase I'm a literature student. Lately most things I've read has been stuff I need to read for my course. I also read a lot of psychology related books for my couse and because it interests me.

    Other than that I read for escapism and pleasure.
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  4. 01-05-2010, 07:31 PM #19
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    Default Re: Why do you read books?

    i think people who don't like to read just haven't found the book they like

    either that or they have a learning disability that makes reading hard. and practice will make it better!

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  5. 01-05-2010, 08:13 PM #20
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    Default Re: Why do you read books?

    ADDICTION!

    You will never see me without a book in my hand or on my person.

    I LOVE READING.

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  6. 01-05-2010, 08:47 PM #21
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    Default Re: Why do you read books?

    Quote Originally Posted by JanieDough View Post
    i think people who don't like to read just haven't found the book they like

    either that or they have a learning disability that makes reading hard. and practice will make it better!
    well some people totally HATE reading (and they like no book), or otherwise they read comics or magazines
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  7. 01-05-2010, 08:50 PM #22
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    Default Re: Why do you read books?

    I love ready manuals.
    I would probably like a novel but just havent read any since high school
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  8. 01-05-2010, 08:50 PM #23
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    Default Re: Why do you read books?

    other, i.e. "to be learnding things"
    Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.

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  9. 01-05-2010, 10:23 PM #24
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    Default Re: Why do you read books?

    Books are gooder than pictures.
    They make stories more better.
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  10. 01-06-2010, 11:59 AM #25
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    Default Re: Why do you read books?

    I agree with you Burntblood it allow our imagination to create its own pictures.
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  11. 01-06-2010, 05:11 PM #26
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    Default Re: Why do you read books?

    To learn... to engage in hearing different opinions... to develop more knowledge about myself and other cultures... to be entertained and laugh... to kill time.... to research.... to understand others better.... to stimulate my imagination and make me think... to know what the current 'in' thing is about so I can discuss it... to search out like-minded people.

    I read a LOT.
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  12. 02-08-2010, 02:33 PM #27
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    Default Re: Why do you read books?

    I think it's wonderful how someone else can put words together on a page and when I enjoy it, I have a film instantly running in my imagination. Of course, if I don't like it, it gets tossed aside like a bad movie trailer.
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  13. 02-08-2010, 03:22 PM #28
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    Default Re: Why do you read books?

    to cure the mind from ignorance with knowledge
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  14. 02-08-2010, 04:04 PM #29
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    Default Re: Why do you read books?

    "Because I would fail the class if I didn't."
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  15. 02-08-2010, 05:26 PM #30
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    Default Re: Why do you read books?

    Because I love reading and can't understand anyone who doesn't. Yet I'm married to one LOL
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