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I'm surprised the Nays are (at the time I'm typing this) winning. I was already waffling toward OSR, and Weapon Masteries is what...

Looking at my original posts, I mentioned both subject and comprehension. Not every kid is the same when it comes to reading...

I am late to the party, but am digging his work quite a bit. Maybe. I was a precocious reader, yet when I revisit books I read at that...

Philip K. Dick is one of my favorite writers. I love almost everything I’ve read of his. I haven’t read this ine yet despite it being...

I finished reading PKD's Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Definitely a head trip to read, reflecting on how fast celebrity can fade...

Our parents certainly didn't know. Tanith Lee was kind of a lot for eleven-year-olds. They signed us up for the Science Fiction Book...

Absolutely. I grew up with books. Heck, one of my earliest memories is my mom reading Beowulf to me before I knew how to read. Yeah, I...

My parents very much tended to the "if you can reach it, you can read it" thing. This got awkward: My mom worked as an OB nurse and had...

Yep. There are always readers. Some kids go through a phase of reading then stop, others become lifetime readers. It takes all kinds...

Enjoyment of reading needs to be instilled at a young age, before any formal study of literature. Otherwise it will always be a chore.

Looking at the amount of reading I was assigned in college, it was more than even I could keep up with on a weekly basis (and I was and...

This can vary. :) I have enjoyed a number of books from class required readings and I joined a book club as an adult just to force...

Most of the books from the "literary canon" that I've enjoyed, I've read on my own. I agree that reading them for class/es rarely puts...

One advantage of an English education is I didn’t have to study English after the age of 16, so pretty much all fiction I read after...