In defense of reading

Yeah, so I was busy not working hard yesterday and I forgot to blog it up. I think I'm going to be throwing out quick reviews of books or movies, just because I can, so you get a twofer today.

In response to Goody not reading, sorry, I just don't buy it. In my opinion, if you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book yet. (By the way, when I say read I include audio books Goody, your ears still work don't they?) For me, the first book I read was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when I was 5 or 6. That book taught me to love to read. For me, there is no better way to escape than to read a great book. I love movies, but very rarely is there a movie that I can get as sucked into as I can the average book. You always hear about "movies not being as good as the book." Well, it's true. If a movie is better than a book, than it generally means that book sucked donkey balls.

People should read more for multitudes of reasons. In my history class the other day, the professor asked who Horatio Algar was. No one besides me and the prof knew. Fine. He then asked if anyone knew had read anything by Nathanial Hawthorne. No one answered. I fear for a generation that is incapable of drawing the parallels between the puritanism of the Scarlet Letter and the Republican "moralism" of today. In fact, that lack of ability to draw a parallel explains quite a bit to me about the last couple elections.

I have a theory about how Al Gore lost an election on a blowjob he didn't even receive, but that's another blog, for 6 years ago.

I am in complete agreement with Goody on the fact that a lot of times I would rather get stuff done around the house than sit down and read or sit down and watch tv. Still, just about every day I make time to sit down at the counter and at least read the headlines of the papers, and most days I read the whole paper. I can't stand watching the news, so if I didn't read the paper I would have no clue what's going on today.

I really think that a big reason people don't read as much as they should is because they feel they need to finish the book. Fuck that. Start a book if you're interested in it, stop it when you're not. I'm willing to bet that eventually you'll find books that suck you in and you make time for. Even you Goody.