[ SECRET POST #2619 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2619 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes]


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03.
[Pushing Daisies]


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04.
[Dallas Buyers Club]


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05.
[Bravely Default]


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06.
[Fake & Kuroko no Basuke]


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07.
[Warehouse 13]


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08.
[Willem Dafoe]


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09.
[Dexter]


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10.
[Rooster Teeth]


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11.
[Lost Girl]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

...the correct answer is that they aren't reading any books at all, tbh. I weep for humanity.

[(Anonymous)]

That would be really sad. :( Though I do meet people who hardly read at all or tell me they only read 1-2 books a year and it's like they're from another planet. I do not understand how they get by without books.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Well, to be fair, I can't say I read nearly the same amount of proper books as I did when I was younger (what with the daily grind of life and the deterioration of my aging brain cells), although I do read daily, and part of my job includes reading (scientific research).

I do notice I have a much higher standard for fiction than I used to when I was younger; if I can tell right from the start that it's some vapid soap bubble of a trope-laden thing the likes of which I've read a billion times before, I give up entirely. Life is far too short.

None of which applies to ACD of course, I'm a Canon purist. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a mature student at one of the top UK Universities and even though there's only a ten year age gap between me and the rest of my year, I am constantly amazed at this. They do not read. Not a one of my fellow students reads books for fun (as I discovered one night down the pub with the lot of them).

In three years of group work I have had to define words like 'transpose' and 'ornithology' and 'apocalypse' for them. D: And I am DYSLEXIC. I am *rubbish* with words, but the difference in our vocabulary sizes is astounding.

Anyway this is all anecdotal as my sample size is only about 30 people and heavily skewed, demographically speaking. Still, scary stuff!

Weep for the future.

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if this is a real trend? I've met a decent number of people my age (late twenties) who don't read, or who only read non-fiction. But I also know that my grandparents never read for pleasure, for instance. I wouldn't be surprised if a few of my aunts were the same way.
I know there are polls suggesting young people read less, but I wonder if that's more about less things coming in book form than than an actual generational thing...

[inevitableentresol]

I know there are polls suggesting young people read less, but I wonder if that's more about less things coming in book form than than an actual generational thing...

Yes, this. Blogs, online articles, fanfic, internet forums, even twitter/facebook feeds. It's all reading but I bet it wasn't counted in.

I'd be amazed if the average young person doesn't actually read more than they would have before the internet, which is a primarily text-based medium.

[inevitableentresol]

I was at university in the UK 20 years ago and I was one of the few people in my year to read regularly for pleasure. I was downright accused by a fellow student of having made up my bibliography in my dissertation because I 'couldn't possibly have read all of those books'.

I think your example is more the case of mature students in general being better motivated/educated than people just out of their teenage years. That's been the case forever.

It could also be the case that this is a real trend. But then, what of all those 18 year olds I keep meeting online who've read hundreds of almost novella-length fics?

[(Anonymous)]

I stopped reading "high level" stuff for pleasure when I started working. I'm a software developer, so I have to read a lot of material for work with great focus. My brain is mush when I get out of work.

I still spend about 10-20 hours a week engaged with reading various materials (non-fiction and easy fiction) for fun, but I read maybe 1 actual book a year tops.

[inevitableentresol]

I was doing a finance job for a few years and I had to read complicated technical stuff all day (oh my eyes, the tiny numbers). When I got home the last thing I wanted was a novel.

But my amount of reading was still high. Just different stuff. Like you.

I think I once went a whole year without reading a book. And I used to read 3-5 a week. It's only recently I've gone back to the classics, now I don't have to read heavy duty stuff for work any more.