How To Read!

In his essay,Nick Hornby strongly emphasizes that if you're reading a book that you don't like, then you should just put it down. He talks about the reasons people like television over reading, which he suggests is this notion that a lot of people think books are boring. He thinks that reading books that aren't appealing to you and your interest, then you shouldn't read them at all. You should read only for you, not what's on a book list of the top 100 books to read in your lifetime, but you should read what you enjoy. He then gives the example of his three friends,who have been reading this really dense book that is on one of those top 100 lists, and how they can barely read a few paragraphs each night. Hornby is basically saying that reading shouldn't be boring or painful. So if you don't understand it, then you won't be motivated to read it and won't ever read it for that matter.
Personally, I don't like to read books that I don't understand or I'm just not feeling. I have no problem putting it down, so I agree with what Hornby is saying. When our AP English class read Last Days of Summer last year, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think the experience was a positive one because of the way the book was written (stylistic choices, the syntax and dialogue between character)and how the characters were developed. By end of the book you could feel the relationship between Joey and Charlie and so when he dies it's like whoa! There's an emotional connection there. A book that I didn't enjoy was called something like Evolution. i can't really remember that's how bad it was. It basically just told the story of this boy and girl and how they travel through time and each have a connection with nature or animals. i don't know, but it was too weird and there was barely any dialogue between the characters and it was just hard to understand what was going on because something different happened on every page.