12 01 2008 02:53
I hate reading. I don’t find it interesting at all. And I don’t get how people can just sit down and read a entire book. I think it’s the most boring crap ever. I would rather sit around and do nothing than read a book. That’s how much it sucks.
I do this weird thing when I read. I’ll be reading and then I’ll start thinking about something random word I read in the book. Then I’ll stop daydreaming and I’ll be a page ahead from where I started daydreaming. It’s like I can daydream and read at the same time but I won’t remember anything that I read.
If they were subtitles to a movie I was watching, then I have no problem reading that. But whenever I see pages and pages of huge blocks of text and no pictures, I freaking hate it. I think its kind of like waiting in a huge ass line for absolutely… NOTHING!
So yeah, sorry for making you read.
it’s not so bad. suck it up!
12 01 2008
03:01
Starting with the title of the post, Things I Hate: Reading, one can tell that the author, chenstopher, carries hatred toward many things. The fact that there is a colon after “Things I Hate” shows that reading is simply one of the many things that the author hates.
The first paragraph starts off strong. The author states the point of his entire post right off the bat. The man hates reading. He justifies this by stating that he does not finding reading interesting. He then likens reading to “boring crap”, clearly opposed to entertaining crap. He claims that he would rather sit around and do nothing than read a book. This sends a strong image of the author sitting there staring at a wall, all the while having more fun than reading. He ends the paragraph by personifying reading and claiming it “sucks”.
By saying he does a “weird” thing when he reads, the author sends an eerie sensation to the reader. The reader is forced to wonder what the “weird” thing is. Perhaps he screams while reading? Maybe he does a jig whenever the word “sun” comes up in the text? Then he promptly squashes the readers’ assumptions by telling us directly what the thing is. With clever diction, the author confuses us with the next two lines, and then clarifies it at the end. With this, we get the sensation that we too have been daydreaming and don’t remember what we have read.
The author then explains that not all reading is bad. He says that reading, in fact, is quite tolerable sometimes. He gives us an example, subtitles in movies. The author then tells us that reading large blocks of text with no pictures is unbearable. With clever diction, the author makes “text” sound heavy and concrete, giving us the thought that it may be tough and hard. The author then ends the paragraph with a metaphor. The metaphor allows the reader to imagine a long line of people, looking over each other’s shoulders in anticipation, not knowing that their efforts are for naught.
The post ends with a bang. The author informs us that we have been misled into reading what he hates so much; large blocks of text. The author briefly apologizes, leaving the reader stunned at how badly he has been played. It is as if you can hear the faint sound of the author uttering “SUCKA!!!”
12 01 2008
09:03
I can’t believe you wrote all that.
12 01 2008
12:26
I was in CS LAB, what else could I do?
12 02 2008
09:56
Now if you replace the word “reading” with chem, I can relate a little bit more.
12 02 2008
10:09
I think I hate reading and Chem about the same. Even though just staring @ a thick book pisses me off… staring @ a thick Chem book destroys my soul.
12 02 2008
10:26
John, you also hate CS about the same.
And if Chem books destroy your soul then i might as well keep this shiny little think sitting at my desk….
12 02 2008
14:23
actually, i like reading; i always RTFM!
12 02 2008
14:27