The Loneliness of Reading

[hellsapoppin]

I do not agree that reading is a ''lonely'' process. Yes, it is a solitary process in that you are doing it alone. But there are thousands doing precisely the same thing. Each of us gains from reading and we become more contributive people as we learn from the materials we read. Thus, the world becomes a better place for the time spent on this wonderful activity.

[blazeofglory]

Reading is really a lonely activity but the fact is it kills our loneliness and we can have a company op people of the world over, not only of this time, we will kind of come across genres of people of many centuries. When I read Shakespeare I will silently communicate with people of a country that was different than what I am in. I can share ideas of them and this indeed will liven up my soul. Therefore reading is not something that gives loneliness but it takes us to a world of friendliness and affability in point of fact. I have moments when I was unaccompanied, living solitarily and had it not been for books or to put it another way, if books did not give me company of I would have lived a life of melancholy. But books always supported me against the stretches of time in life. Even now I cannot think about life without books, for books give me all kinds of emotional and intellectual satisfaction. It has of course widened my world of thought and imagination. And therefore loneliness and books are two different and opposite poles. Or to put simply loneliness cannot exist where there are books

[Dinkleberry2010]

Reading and books have provided me with a livelihood as well as helping to keep me sane and literally saving my life. If it wasn't for reading, I wouldn't be here--I'd been dead a long time ago.