Why Do You Read? - CrimeSpace2024-03-28T13:52:55Zhttp://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/537324:Topic:141039?commentId=537324%3AComment%3A141089&feed=yes&xn_auth=noBooks can't talk back or abou…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-05-23:537324:Comment:1420772008-05-23T03:53:48.636Zrachael sandershttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/rachaelsanders
Books can't talk back or about me. Each one I open feels like my new best friend. Plus books allow me to learn things that I wouldn't normally learn.
Books can't talk back or about me. Each one I open feels like my new best friend. Plus books allow me to learn things that I wouldn't normally learn. Books were toys to me at firs…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-05-21:537324:Comment:1417742008-05-21T18:30:15.755Zcarole gillhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/PhyllisDietrichson
Books were toys to me at first. I used to play with them as a toddler--knocking them out of the bookcase! Also, I used to go to sleep holding a Golden Book. When I was older, my father took me to the library and said: "someday you'll be going to the adult section!" How I longed for that day. Now to answer the question: I read in order to escape into other worlds, other lives and situations. I can ride with the police, hang out with villians and heroes. Listen to them, hate them, love them--I…
Books were toys to me at first. I used to play with them as a toddler--knocking them out of the bookcase! Also, I used to go to sleep holding a Golden Book. When I was older, my father took me to the library and said: "someday you'll be going to the adult section!" How I longed for that day. Now to answer the question: I read in order to escape into other worlds, other lives and situations. I can ride with the police, hang out with villians and heroes. Listen to them, hate them, love them--I can witness a murder. Be there when they discover the body. Cry with the victim's relatives. I get to leave my own rather mundane world to inhabit other worlds. I read because we no longer gather around a fire in a circle--to hear a wise old person telling us stories. I guess reading is the outgrowth of that. The hearing of tales--which, I am glad to say, will go on forever, whether it be on paper or on the internet or someday transformed into some other medium we cannot even imagine. It won't matter as long as it goes on. Yes, that's a good one. I'm s…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-05-20:537324:Comment:1415182008-05-20T00:25:48.025ZDaniel Hatadihttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
Yes, that's a good one. I'm sure Joseph Campbell and Robert McKee's love child would agree.<br />
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Seriously, though, I think the pattern of "the story" is somehow ingrained into the human spirit. We need to connect with it somehow, even if it's as as vapid as keeping up with shows like Big Brother. There's stil la story in there ... somewhere.
Yes, that's a good one. I'm sure Joseph Campbell and Robert McKee's love child would agree.<br />
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Seriously, though, I think the pattern of "the story" is somehow ingrained into the human spirit. We need to connect with it somehow, even if it's as as vapid as keeping up with shows like Big Brother. There's stil la story in there ... somewhere. Yeah, I was wondering about t…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-05-20:537324:Comment:1415162008-05-20T00:23:09.545ZDaniel Hatadihttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
Yeah, I was wondering about that. You don't strike me as the kind of person that has only been reading for four years!
Yeah, I was wondering about that. You don't strike me as the kind of person that has only been reading for four years! A curious mind.
I guess that…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-05-20:537324:Comment:1415142008-05-20T00:18:21.550ZDaniel Hatadihttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
A curious mind.<br />
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I guess that's reason enough right there. :)
A curious mind.<br />
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I guess that's reason enough right there. :) errrr - that should be 4(some…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-05-20:537324:Comment:1415122008-05-20T00:17:07.989ZKaren from AustCrimehttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/austcrimefiction
errrr - that should be 4(something) years since. Not even me at my delusional best could think it was only 4 years since I was a child.
errrr - that should be 4(something) years since. Not even me at my delusional best could think it was only 4 years since I was a child. "After years of little or no…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-05-20:537324:Comment:1415092008-05-20T00:12:23.818ZDaniel Hatadihttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
"After years of little or no reading."<br />
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That's the same thing that happened to me. I spent a lot of time learning about music instead, so that took up all my creative energies. It wasn't until I moved on to writing that I returned to reading.<br />
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I'm curious. What caused your reading drought, Emily?
"After years of little or no reading."<br />
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That's the same thing that happened to me. I spent a lot of time learning about music instead, so that took up all my creative energies. It wasn't until I moved on to writing that I returned to reading.<br />
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I'm curious. What caused your reading drought, Emily? Can I go with the Everest exp…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-05-19:537324:Comment:1413452008-05-19T00:10:24.180ZKaren from AustCrimehttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/austcrimefiction
Can I go with the Everest explanation? Because it's there. Seriously though the habit started as child, in the bush, on a farm, surrounded by adults. So I started reading probably for entertainment / to avoid the job list on the wall (which was possibly the only thing I wouldn't read in those days), but mostly because it was a way to escape / dream. Haven't lost the habit in the 4 years since.<br />
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Nowadays I'm still reading to escape "the farm" although the farm is a whole lot smaller these days…
Can I go with the Everest explanation? Because it's there. Seriously though the habit started as child, in the bush, on a farm, surrounded by adults. So I started reading probably for entertainment / to avoid the job list on the wall (which was possibly the only thing I wouldn't read in those days), but mostly because it was a way to escape / dream. Haven't lost the habit in the 4 years since.<br />
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Nowadays I'm still reading to escape "the farm" although the farm is a whole lot smaller these days and I'm here voluntarily now :) I read because "the story" is…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-05-18:537324:Comment:1413402008-05-18T21:51:39.094ZPatricia Abbotthttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/pattinase
I read because "the story" is seductive. I can't bear not hearing the story.
I read because "the story" is seductive. I can't bear not hearing the story. At four, I started to read th…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2008-05-18:537324:Comment:1412942008-05-18T01:29:59.109ZSue Dawsonhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/SueDawson
At four, I started to read the backs of cereal boxes on the kitchen table. My mother took me to Vernon Grade School in Portland, Oregon, as I had pestered her to go to kindergarten. Alas, no admittance until five years of age! Later I skipped part of the first grade (divided then with 1-A and 1-B). Is it any wonder that I grew up to work in libraries and later became an English teacher?
At four, I started to read the backs of cereal boxes on the kitchen table. My mother took me to Vernon Grade School in Portland, Oregon, as I had pestered her to go to kindergarten. Alas, no admittance until five years of age! Later I skipped part of the first grade (divided then with 1-A and 1-B). Is it any wonder that I grew up to work in libraries and later became an English teacher?