Somebody once told me they don’t read recreationally because authors are lazy for making readers do all the work of imagining what their story looks like. He was completely sincere, and actually became agitated at the idea of people reading anything beyond manuals or mandatory sorts of things.
The conversation wasn’t exactly productive. In any case it wasn’t just that he didn’t care for reading books, but he actively opposed it which was really a wild position.
I had a similar talk with a guy in his 30’s, who said that books didn’t have nearly enough information density for his hyper intelligent super brain. “It’s ok, if you’re a slow reader, you can fix that with practice!” was apparently not the answer he wanted to hear.
Somebody once told me they don’t read recreationally because authors are lazy for making readers do all the work of imagining what their story looks like. He was completely sincere, and actually became agitated at the idea of people reading anything beyond manuals or mandatory sorts of things.
Has this person ever heard about comics
The conversation wasn’t exactly productive. In any case it wasn’t just that he didn’t care for reading books, but he actively opposed it which was really a wild position.
Hey, we got a reader over here!
I had a similar talk with a guy in his 30’s, who said that books didn’t have nearly enough information density for his hyper intelligent super brain. “It’s ok, if you’re a slow reader, you can fix that with practice!” was apparently not the answer he wanted to hear.