[ SECRET POST #3259 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3259 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Opinions people judge you for

[(Anonymous)]

School ruined non-fandom reading for me, because when you read nothing but stuff that DOESN'T pique your interest, it burns you.

Re: Opinions people judge you for

[kallanda_lee]

Same. I read some again now, but I didn't read books for YEARS because of bad school experiences.

Re: Opinions people judge you for

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much. It's even worse for me, I imagine, because I was an AP kid. All AP. We did so much outside reading, and often of things that were boring or not vary well written. (In Cold Blood is forever an annoying example because the author kept going off on barely-related tangents that had nothing to do with the crime he was telling us about.)

Re: Opinions people judge you for

[kallanda_lee]

"Gifted", by any chance? Because lord knows I could write a book about that. And not a fun one.

I sort of hate that they managed to ruin it for me, though. And it bothers me that by doing the opposite of what was expected of me - well, I'm still influenced by it, I'm just expressing it as a counter-reaction. I think reading fanfic was one of my little rebellions.

Re: Opinions people judge you for

[(Anonymous)]

That's a shame, but it's very common for a lot of people to get turned off of books because of school. I hope you'll give them a try again sometime, anon. It's entirely possible to find books you enjoy and love as much as fanfiction and you don't want to miss out because of a bad experience.

Re: Opinions people judge you for

[(Anonymous)]

I know it is, it's just that it'd made reading so draining overall. Fanfics tend to be much shorter, and the computer screen is actually easier on my eyes.

Re: Opinions people judge you for

[(Anonymous)]

Understood. If and when you feel like giving it a try, I highly recommend delving into YA (because there's so much of it out there to explore and it often offers shorter stories that still pack a narrative punch) and ebooks. Short fiction is also a good one to try. Here's one of my favorites, Neil Gaiman's "Snow, Glass, Apples":

http://thedreaming.joefulgham.com/1999/10/10/snow-glass-apples/