My Philosophy On Reading

First of all, I am not particularly a book person. However, I have read many books in my life. Most of the books I read are ones that my school assigns me to read. There are only very few books that I have actually wanted to read. Those books are either books that my family or friends suggest or the topic about the book interests me. For example, I listened to the first two Harry Potter Books on audiocassettes. By the way, I am a huge fan of audio books. I get into the book a lot easier for some reason. Speaking of which, I’m listening to an audio book about Walt Disney’s life, which is very fascinating. Also, all of my family has read Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code as well as Angels and Demons. So, I had to read them, and I loved them both. I wanted to read them before they came out in the movie theaters. I thought Dan Brown’s writing style corresponded with the style of writing that I like very well. All the chapters were short and climactic, which makes the reader want to read even more.

The majority of the books I’ve read I didn’t like very much. Most of those books were the books that my school assigns. It feels like all the books school assigns have to be extremely depressing. For instance, there was one book that I read that had death, depression, suicide, slavery and segregation, curse words constantly through it, and extremely long chapters. I hate long chapters. After a few pages, I would start to drift into daydream land about something not even remotely related to the book. I always ask why we have to read such depressing books. And, my friends who like reading books say that they need those horrible, depressing situations because it makes the great book. I highly disagree. I have read fantastic books that have none of that stuff in it. So, the depressing books would go in the “trash” pile and books like Dan Brown’s and that have that sense of easily creating a visual, movie like image in your head while reading goes into the “quality” pile.