Why do you like reading?

[m_buckner]

To escape the day-to-day. It's like a mental vacation so that I can come back refreshed.

[DeadPiccolo]

I love to read to live out another life where anything can happen.

[Namrata]

I love to read for the same reasons most members have stated in their posts: to escape, to have the thrill, to learn about life. For me, reading is as essential as food and water. Life has got busy as a mother and errands seem never ending. But my appetite for books is insatiable. There nothing more pleasant than holding a new book and the inhaling the aroma from its pages. Most times I turn all the pages, in wonder, to the last page. Not reading;just savoring. Books make me feel secure and protected. It makes me feel that life is still worthwhile no matter how hard it may be. I try to read at least a page or a paragraph when pressed for time. Books are faithful friends. They allow a view into a worlds of fantasy. They depict varying degrees of human emotions and lives. The experience still lingers on long after reading the book.

[urica]

I like, actually love, reading because it takes me to places i have never been, let me feel emotions that are foreign to me, and give me insights of other people's lives and their culture.

[meganharnett]

What I love about reading is being able to escape to other worlds or people's lives that are interesting. Nothing like a good story that sits with you. It is a chance to let your imagination be lead through a story that it might not otherwise come up with.

[Sine_Ni_Ceallach]

The majority of the time I am reading to learn, whether it be about new schools of thought, a concept that could be applied to my life, to expand my vocabulary, to better understand an event in history or point in time. Gaining knowledge is always my goal.

[Lydia]

You know, I never really thought about it... I just picked it up from my mother because it felt... right.

Let's see...

I think the answer lies in a question I often ask myself when I find someone who absolutely hates reading. What would my life be without doing it? A brother of mine treats it like the plague, yet he's very clever, properly educated, and happy. I tried doing it once, back in high school, when my reading took away all the time I needed to study for my uni entry exams, but I was far from happy. In fact, I was miserable. So, I like reading because I hate the way my life is without it. I love reading because it helps me live many different lives, go to many different places, feel so many different emotions that, for some reason, real life doesn't offer me anymore. And I need reading because, it helps me cope that much better with reality after I've experienced a great adventure, mystery, or romance.

Remember those lyrics in one of Mary Poppins's songs? A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down ? For me, it can go like this: An armful of books helps reality go down

[hazelk]

Reading is my magic carpet, it transports me to all the corners of the world etc

[Ursila_Sage]

I read for two reasons...

1) To escape. I love being transported to another time or place. I love that feeling of seeing or doing or experiencing something different.

2) To see things from a different perspective. I love a book that makes me think and shows me things from other people's perspectives.

I agree with Kath. I like reading because it allows me to escape the world that i am in now.

I have to hop on this bandwagon. Being transported to other times and places. Meeting, learning about and falling in love with amazing creations of great minds is what sends me to the library every Sunday. The ability to peer into the mind of another person is a great experience for me and that's why I love reading. Reality will never be as awesome as my imagination but in a book it gets pretty close.

[Reader88]

I think I like reading for the same reason most of us do. To dream, escape, and have a whole world in front of us that, before that moment; never existed! It takes away all of my problems at the moment, and for a little while I get to be in a completely different place!

[sonnshinne]

When I find a good book I fall for the characters and escape into their world. I love the adventure a book can take you on.

[insertwittynamehere]

I love reading because I love words and languages. When I look at words, I realize that there is a set of symbols that represent sounds. Then those symbols are combined to create words with denotations and connotations (I love how words can do this). And with those words, stories can be created and told. I find that absolutely brilliant and fascinating.

I have lots of other reasons for why I love reading, but this reason is why I love it most.

[cornishloverofbooks]

I love reading because it gets your imagination going and everybody's imagination is different. We could all read the same book but what we see in our individual heads is different from the next person. I prefer reading books than watching films sometimes as the books are alot better than the poor excuse of a film that someone has tried to create.

[richieg1981]

I Love to read as i love to be transported to far off places and taken on guided tours of anciant buildings and worlds. i also use reading as a way of escaping from the world and using it to recharge my brain

[gali]

I love reading since it is fun and I read for entertainment, information, education and stimulation. I am what you call a
"book worm"...