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What is your main reason for reading?
I personally enjoy reading to diversify my outlook on theoretical approach; ergo, broadening my knowledge in general.
To do this, I read a range of books from disparate genres and epochs.
I particularly enjoy postmodernist literature, my favourite short stoy being 'the night drive' by Italo Calvino.
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Feel free to elucidate your reading aims...
Haha, that's great! Do you read to avoid becoming a waffle waitress?
It feels that way, sometimes...Quote:
Originally Posted by castleteachings
I guess there are two possible reasons to read: learning and entertainment. Those only interested in the first will mostly read textbook, specific essays and such. Those only interested in the second will mostly read best-sellers and genre literature. The average reader should be be somewhere in the middle. The good reader realizes both reasons are pretty much the same.
How profound! I would like to think I'm somewhere in the middle. I read intellectually stimulating literature; books which are loaded with philosophical/theoretical undertones.
For pleasure, to understand myself better, to understand others, to surround myself with beauty, for knowledge.
Because I find it enjoyable and I like engaging in a 'dialogue' with the author.
So you believe that in reading a text, you learn something about the author, as opposed to the character which he/she creates?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pierre Menard
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Originally Posted by castleteachings
No no, not exactly. I don't really take the ultra-romantic view that all of a writer is reflected in their writings. I meant dialogue with the author as an author. More a dialogue as in he/she is 'speaking' their art, and I as a reader am 'receiving' the art. So my interpretations of the characters and so on are all part of the larger 'dialogue'.