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Originally Posted by cfrizz
You explained it very well. It sounds to me like other people have somehow gotten into your brain to dictate what you should be reading.
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If so, that would be strange. If someone asks something or tries to dictate what I should do and I don't support it, you can't get me to do it. (Although I have to admit I've never had to try and hodl on to principles while someone points a gun at my head.)
Also, I actually know no-one (literally NOBODY) who reads a book for their own enjoyment. Everyone I know only reads when they really, really have to, and even then they do a half-assed job of it.
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Shut down that line of thinking and you will probably start enjoying again whatever you are reading.
What I read is very good to me, if it isn't I pick another book. The importance of the book is subjective to each individual. I refused to be dictated to by anyone else what is an important book to be read.
I don't allow anyone else to decide what I should read, I read what I want and everyone elses opinion is irrelevant.
I read for entertainment plain and simple.
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I don't know why I always feel like I should be reading something else. Now I've been reading the last three books in the Shannara series, but I've also been thinking I should read the next novel in the Sherlock Holmes series. So, a few days ago I started that, but half-way through I felt like I should be reading older 80's fantasy such as Thomas Covenant, because I heard they are very good books, but never read them.
So now I've returned to the Shannara book, because as soon as I would start reading Thomas Covenant, I would undoubtedly feel that I should be reading more horror or ghost stories by Arthur Machen or Ambrose Bierce... or should I finally start reading Terry Pratchett?
Sometimes I feel I have too many books. In the old days, I found something to read, bought it, read it, and then started looking for something new. Reading was quite expensive back then; around $50 a month for English paperbacks, more if a book came as a hardcover. Now reading is cheap to free (especially with Kobo codes and the PD classics), so I have unlimited choice.
To some extent, that makes me feel as if each choice is worth less than in the old days.