50 Shades of Grey, changing the world one person at a time

okuma31

okuma31

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1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.

Am I the only one disgusted by this shit, it takes a piece of shit like 50 Shades of Grey to get people to read again.


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Source: 42% of people who graduate from college never read another book.
 


I have a room in my house dedicated to books. I call it the "library", which is a reference to the giant warehouses of printed material that dotted the North American landscape prior to the rise of the machines.
 
I have a room in my house dedicated to books. I call it the "library", which is a reference to the giant warehouses of printed material that dotted the English landscape prior to the rise of the machines.
 
IceToEskimos said:
I have a room in my house dedicated to books. I call it the "library", which is a reference to the giant warehouses of printed material that dotted the North American landscape prior to the rise of the machines.
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Please go on, I'd love to hear about these ancient relics of the past you call "books" Grandpa.
 
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IceToEskimos said:
I have a room in my house dedicated to books. I call it the "library", which is a reference to the giant warehouses of printed material that dotted the North American landscape prior to the rise of the machines.
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I have a small electronic device in my house dedicated to books. I call it the "kindle".
 
Yeah, I have a shitload of books, and now I do most of my reading on my tablet. The rest of the world being retarded isn't my problem. They can have "Big Brother". I'll take a life worth living.
 
okuma31 said:
Please go on, I'd love to hear about these ancient relics of the past grandpa.
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Interestingly, I think people are reading more than ever due to the internet. However, as per usual, what they are reading isn't very valuable. Reading a Facebook feed is about as enlightening as reading that note that Sally passed to you in 10th grade geography, which is to say, not very.

The last good nonfiction I read was "The Machinery Of Freedom"

Last good fiction was "Rabbit at Rest" and "Freedom"

I don't have a lot of time, so I try not to waste it by reading shit.

If a book isn't going to make a statement about what it means to be a human being, I'm generally not interested in reading it, because I don't really need to be entertained any more than I already am.

Here's what David Foster Wallace had to say about it:
Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being. If you operate, which most of us do, from the premise that there are things about the contemporary U.S. that make it distinctively hard to be a real human being, then maybe half of fiction’s job is to dramatize what it is that makes it tough. The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be. This isn’t that it’s fiction’s duty to edify or teach, or to make us good little Christians or Republicans; I’m not trying to line up behind Tolstoy or Gardner. I just think that fiction that isn’t exploring what it means to be human today isn’t art.
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tygoldberg said:
I use this for traveling, read real 'books' when im home.

There's something about turning pages and dog ears that keeps me buying books.

I won't ever give up dem pages.
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I'm with you for the most part.

I owned the original Kindle, never used it. Never read books on my Ipad. Bought a Kindle Fire, never used it.

Bought a Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, and not sure why, but I use it for reading books constantly now. I don't like browsing on it. I don't like games. But for some reason I find it just as easy to read books on it as I do the real thing.

There's something to be said about the feel of real pages though. You can't replicate that. I doubt I'll ever give up physical books entirely either.

On the flip-side, having a library you can fit in your pocket is pretty sweet too.
 
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