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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...

Considering how constantly inundated kids are with visual and aural distractions from the various screens available, any medium that can...

I got into a debate with someone a while back with someone who said that school libraries should only have academic works, and not...

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...

I love Moby Dick, but I appreciate that when you are faced with entire chapters such as the following, fury or despair may be warranted...

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...

I enjoy Lin Carter's work quite a bit. I also think that if you want to understand Conan's place in Appendix N, the Carter/De Camp...

It's been ages, but Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are both pretty readable. The former is a little more...

The thing about comparing Dostoevsky and Carter is they are writing for completely different different reasons, and they are read for...

Nothing beats the joy out of reading than being forced to do it in school/college. I cannot speak for James Joyce -have him on my...

As much as I respect Tolkien, dude seriously needed an editor. I’ve read The Hobbit a few times. Great book. I’ve read Lord of the Rings...

Go back and forth quickly. I don't really think about it, but intuitively, it's probably similar to a tense action movie edit in terms...

Or just sit in the same room and be amazed by what the other part of the party does. Enjoy the story. I just switch back and forth...

There are a few books/authors that I've bounced off. I can't read Tolkien and I ended up putting down Foundation. Both sound exactly...