Sorry for talking too much about this but first I need to tell everyone that I am trying to read fiction books outside school for the first time in my life.
I am reading a book of an American writer named Edgar Allan Poe about murders and police investigation.
Also, I am reading another fiction book of my country (similar to the American writer’s book) and my mother (who reads hundreds of books) told me to read another book named *The Da Vinci Code*
A lot of people told me that reading is fun and that reading is “magical” and “can make you live thousands of lives”
But for me reading is looking at words and nothing else, I can’t see myself being the main character of the story and I don’t think that looking at pages can make you live another life.
In my country there was a writer who said “a book is a dead man who lives”, no, a dead man doesn’t live, he is dead.
If I want to know about how life was in the past I read a biography on Wikipedia.
Also, many writers write about things they don’t know, for example, the American writer mentioned in the beginning never worked as a detective.
For me reading isn’t exciting, I prefer watching a movie on Netflix like all teenagers because when you watch a movie you can see what is happening on the screen.
And a lot of people say that fiction can help with empathy and understanding others and that people need them for their jobs.
I don’t think that knowing about crimes can help you in your life, I don’t think a carpenter doesn’t need to know about how to solve crimes or a person who works in an office needs to know about fictional stories.
Also, someone told me that fiction can help you to understand ethics, but I believe that reading Kant and Stuart Mill’s non fictional books (for example *critique of pure reason* by Kant) can help you better.
I understand that older people read because they didn’t have smartphones and they grew up with it, but I cant understand why people say that reading is fun, magical and useful in real life.
by CRNXD38