I hate reading. I hate having to sit there and sort out all those squiggles on a sheet of paper into cohesive information or entertainment. The problem is that the stuff that is contained within the stuff I have to read is fantastic. I just wish that there was another way of accessing it. But there is not so I am stuck with reading. I am sure that there are many people old and young who also hate the mechanics of reading. Probably some of those looking at this now are feeling that I should have not bothered. It is a dilemma that I have never come to terms with because I love writing, I love books, I love the information gleaned, I just hate reading!
So what do you do if you are a kid at school who, like me, hates the process of reading? They are pressured into doing it at all stages of life but really given a good reason for actually doing it. Many of them find the information that the reading will expose to them as boring, irrelevant and of no use to them. What reading opens up to us is quite astonishing when you think about it. There is the whole of literature from the Beano to Pride & Prejudice to Beowulf, but there are other forms of literature that although you don't have to read, someone has to. Plays, poems, movies, TV all depend on someone somewhere reading a script. So no matter what we do we need readers before we can create.
So how do we get people who hate reading to give it a go? I have no idea, after all I am looking for an alternative. I suppose we could go the Graphic Novel route but there are still bits to read. Audio books are an option, but I think that listening to something like "A Brief History of Time" may just be the end of time and space as we know it. I would be fascinated to know the answer to this dilemma - any suggestion?
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