Why do you read?

[kiki1982]

I read because, in lieu of being smart, I like to sound smart. And reading helps me accomplish that wee little goal of mine.

Oh, and I also think that TV, the internet (mostly) and video games (especially) are, by in large, mind-sucking, life-depriving sinkholes: the black holes to the light of lived experience, says I.

I agree withthe above, although my hubby says I'm very intelligent. He's also fooled .

And I agree with the other to. Since I have moved to Germany, I have embraced great amounts of books for me. No TV apart from a few intresting things a week.

I also need words, like Manchegan. It is recognisable! Signs (what's on it), little leaflets, books in the bookshop (wthout buying them)... It drives my hubby mad if we go on holiday to a place where I don't know the language, because I want to know what it says and also how the language and grammar works...

[Jonathan Cid]

I read because literature is a cosmic communion for me. It is another mode of human communication, through symbols on sheets of paper, we pour out reason and emotion, to convey realities about our existence. Reading is an intellectual adventure for me. Books take my mind to new places, and convey what matters most, what the mind thirsts for - ideas. Books are pregnant with ideas, and when we read, we're not just reading the story written in fiction, or the exegesis written in non-fiction, but the greater ideas carried from the macrocosm of the universe to the microcosm of our book; we're "reading" the very nature of existence.

[Zee.]

I read for enjoyment

reading a good book is like watch and amazing, exciting movie, but better because a. i can stop it at any time (i guess the same is with a movie) b. it's in my hands and c. i can take it everywhere

every book i read - whether it be for research or entertainment, has to interest me and entertain me

[Zeniyama]

I read because I'm a bit of an introvert (which is a primary reason why I love all art), and also because it helps me use my imagination. Instead of staring at a television screen for an hour or two I can pick up a book and make the story come to life in my head, which I've found to be much more satisfying.

[Dirtbag]

It's nice to let someone else enter my mind and fill it with something of beauty. To silence my rambling inner chaos.