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The Battle Continues Over "Childish Things"
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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7771707" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>That is an excellent question, and one I don’t have an answer to. Somone may, but not me.</p><p></p><p>And my own reading experience is <em>exceedingly</em> skewed. All 4 of my grandparents were educators and read for as long as they were able. We’ve mentioned my Mom, but my Dad is also a lifetime reader- besides the classics (4 of his 5 copies of <em>The Peloponesian Wars</em> are barely intact), he had a childhood love of westerns, got hooked on sci-fi, and has read chess books his whole life, even today. (I’m damn good, but have never beaten him.)</p><p></p><p>And I first read the <em>Iliad</em> as a 2nd grader in the early 1970s for fun...and one of the reading classbooks I had back then consisted of excerpts from <em>The Hobbit</em>, <em>Dragonriders of Pern</em>, and other sci-fi, fantasy and horror novels & short stories. Like I mentioned before, I didn’t realize that significant numbers of people didn’t read novels for fun until I was in law school.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>They’re older than that- go back further to the 1800s and you’ll see the penny dreadfuls.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Actually, if you dig deeper, it isn’t an American only problem. For example:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And just look at this sample of how we stack up:</p><p><a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/6125/which-countries-read-the-most/" target="_blank">https://www.statista.com/chart/6125/which-countries-read-the-most/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 7771707, member: 19675"] That is an excellent question, and one I don’t have an answer to. Somone may, but not me. And my own reading experience is [I]exceedingly[/I] skewed. All 4 of my grandparents were educators and read for as long as they were able. We’ve mentioned my Mom, but my Dad is also a lifetime reader- besides the classics (4 of his 5 copies of [I]The Peloponesian Wars[/I] are barely intact), he had a childhood love of westerns, got hooked on sci-fi, and has read chess books his whole life, even today. (I’m damn good, but have never beaten him.) And I first read the [I]Iliad[/I] as a 2nd grader in the early 1970s for fun...and one of the reading classbooks I had back then consisted of excerpts from [I]The Hobbit[/I], [I]Dragonriders of Pern[/I], and other sci-fi, fantasy and horror novels & short stories. Like I mentioned before, I didn’t realize that significant numbers of people didn’t read novels for fun until I was in law school. They’re older than that- go back further to the 1800s and you’ll see the penny dreadfuls. Actually, if you dig deeper, it isn’t an American only problem. For example: And just look at this sample of how we stack up: [url]https://www.statista.com/chart/6125/which-countries-read-the-most/[/url] [/QUOTE]
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