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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
Guess lots of People get disgusted by reading at school.
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I don't think that's it. The people I talk to either have positive memories of books they read in school, or they hated the book, but not the experience of reading.
I think it's the proliferation of other entertainment options coupled with lack of encouragement from parents.
I had a friend who never read anything outside of school. She didn't understand how words on a page could move you the way a movie would. I had her read Stephen King's Christine (specifically the section where Christine hunts down the kid in the Camaro) and she became a reader and a Stephen King fan.
I'm convinced that anyone could be a reader, if you can just find the book that will turn them on. That's why I don't look down my nose at any kind of reading.