Why dont more millenials read books?

The greater question is why so many of them read YA exclusively and feel no guilt. I figure it must have something to do with a unique failure of Protestantism but that's only a hunch.

Young people are devouring Harry Potter, Twilight, 50 Shades and Hunger Games. JK Rowling is the first millionaire writer in history. Do you want millenials to read even more?

Are you implying that Catholicism and Orthodoxy somehow prevent people from reading YA?
It's just capitalism and bad education.

The do read books! Look at the kids on the subway.
If they have a serious expression while staring at their phones, they're reading "50 shades of Gray" or "The Story of O".

>implying capitalism and Protestantism aren't deeply intertwined
Let me think about it though like I said it's merely a hunch

They read books """"by"""" youtubers.

does buzzfeed count as a book?

The failure of the education system to foster a love for reading in youth, coupled with a strong attention economy providing ample distraction that lets people pretend they "don't have time" to do things that would better themselves while spending 60 hours a week on facebook and youtube.

Too busy working 3 jobs to pay for a basic living expenses.

How the fuck is it the education systems fault for not providing a love for reading? I read in school all the time, 50% of which I got to pick. Its the fucking parents of these fucking kids. The education system is fucked no doubt, but shit it worked fine for a lot of people too. This meme is such a bourgeois half thought response. Please end this meme and start blaming the mouth breathing parents who allow their kids to go home and play vidya for nine hours and then yell at the teacher when their kid doesn't have an 'A' because they sure as shit don't care if they are actually learning or not

In countries with commuting lots of people read in the subway, train, buses.
In America everybody owns a car.

im picking up the slack settle down

t. somebody who has never set foot in a major american city

I was going to say thats bullshit, but then i looked it up and saw this:

>A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James and A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara had sales between 15,000 and 20,000

npr.org/2015/09/19/441459103/when-it-comes-to-book-sales-what-counts-as-success-might-surprise-you

Absolutely atrocious required reading filled with leftist discontent, kids literally spend years reading boring former communists from the 40's.

Living expenses are quite cheap in most American cities.

Yeah but most people don't want to live in them. They want NY, LA, SF, SEA

Like Dayton Ohio is one of the best cities for graduates, good luck getting them there though.

Have you called her a little shit to her face?

I agree, and it doesnt matter.

If a kid has no appreciation of literature, it is first and foremost the parents fault.

No. . .

You should, especially if she pulls her phone out at the communal dinner table. That's fucking rude and no one should do it. Dinner is a time to look people in their faces and make actual conversation.

as somebody who has lived in both american and european cities there's something to be said about demographics. in an american city you will never find a major CEO or other wealthy person riding the subway to work. the option is almost always to drive, if you have the means. I found this was not true at all in cities like Kologne and Hamburg.

Do you mean the other way round?

That more people read then before internet 2.0 distracted people?

It's the nature of our system. Abject consumerism doesn't require a high level of literacy. It only requires a person to be just smart enough to to read a menu, or to write down an order at Denny's. This isn't just a millennial problem though, Gen X and Boomers aren't anything to brag about.

Gas is very expensive in Germany, and their public transit system is a lot better than ours. German taxes are also extremely high, which probably affects vehicle use.

Honestly, kind of wish I didn't have a computer so I could just not distract myself and focus on reading.

lol what is wrong with you

Vidya ruined attention spans.
Invisible style in fiction atrophied reading comprehension. Texting and emojis made it worse.

Because, technology.

lack of discipline, netflix, facebook, twitter, more anxiety, more depression

>nice dubs
Honestly not really sure. Most people I know, that do read frequently, only read the classics.

They bitch about the length of dialogues and monologues ("words words words") in film and comics, why would they read books.

Look up functional illiteracy, while we're at it.

divorce rates also

>again nice dubs
I hate to be one of those guys, but could someone give me some kind of feedback on this? I really would like to know where it sits on the scale of kys, to pretty good.

I have bad news for you, buddy.

And then they all dogpile onto him, criticize him, laugh at him, and eventually he slunks back home and stares at the wall for an hour or so in mourning for the state of society.

Finished it for you.

I'd rather be correct and a reject than popular and wrong. But that's just me.

Too busy being a pretend victim somewhere else

Too much fidget spinners, twitters, apple watches, bluray home entertainment, high carb diets, anime pornography,...

This. After you get your psych degree you want to party it up in a cool city while leaching off your parents and working as a waiter.

They do, but generally within a context that allows them to further ornament their social identities.

Reading is a social thing to them, which can include the purchasing of books, being seen while reading books, telling people that you read and have read books, and simply having others know that you 'read'.

Just look at

Start doing it by friendly teasing, her generation can't handle face to face confrontation without a meltdown or chimping out.

What you need to do is reorganize your environment so that accessing your computer is sufficiently tedious when you get the impulse to go to it rather than read. Box it up and put it in storage for a couple of weeks. Etc.

>Invisible style in fiction atrophied reading comprehension.

Interesting thought, can you expand on this?

so modernity?

Born 96 here, I don't know anyone who still reads, one of my friends has listened to a few audiobooks but thats it.

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Why read a 500 page book when it only gives reward (as in inspiration or something meaningful) on page 105, 290 and 470?

This thread is full of jaded, pretentious idiots with nothing more but superiority complex to back up their beliefs.

I tippeth my hat of Fedore to you, m'lords.

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Why is it that whenever people talk about millennials they post a picture of Soe? Does she look like the average millennial girl?

How does a person get to "College +" without ever reading a book?

Everyone I knew in high school used SparkNotes religiously.

Internet

most Unis are doing courses online now because the need for lectures, tutorial sessions and general library resources are just not needed for undergraduates

They read more than any other generation in history.

Yes :3

I think the assumption is they don't read capital "L," Literature.

The reason is probably because they aren't taught how to properly read and analyze text if any sort; then they only do it on painfully dull state testing, which is mandatory from 1st until graduation; then they get hit with the brunt of American anti-intellectualism, and our culture makes it obvious that writers and musicians are only interesting when they self-destruct. All of this lends itself to university students either skimming works or cheating. It's also why the such narratives like "Kike-leftist bullshit"and "pretensious white men" can have any capital: they already have no desire to read, but now they can make it an ideological position. It's all so sad.

It is creepy that you know this girl's name.

This survey is bullshit.

Now we all now her name

>They read more than any other generation in history.
This is such bullshit. Someone like Harold Bloom expresses it wonderfully, he can recite countless poems from memory, he can quote the Iliad at will. This was not at all unusual for those readers who predated us, they were actual intellectuals. More people might read today, but they don't understand, there's no actualization of ideas and very little is internalized. It's such a cop out to suggest that because millions of faggots read Harry Potter and forget 9/10ths of it, our generation is the most literate to ever live.

they read some shitlib articles it barely counts as anything of merit

Both the quality of what's read and how it's read are at the lowest point of history. The fact that the sheer quantity of this swill is at an all time high compounds the issue, makes it a legitimate evil.

I'll tell you my personal experience. I'm a millenial and was never a reader until recently and none of my friends have read a book recently. I decided to change partly because of Veeky Forums, I was a bit arrogant towards fiction and novels, thought they were a waste of time, but that wasn't what prevented me from reading. I have trouble focusing on books sometimes, mind starts wandering, also I quit books halfway through a lot of times. But really the single biggest problem is how many short-term rewarding distractions we have. I spend a lot of time on YouTube and a lot of time on IRC.

I'm working on it though and this year I've completed 8 books and working on a few others. The reading has already slowed down though, hard to stay motivated.

She used to host Dota 2 tournaments and I believe is now working for Blizzard.

Are you fucking serious? Which generation could recite poems from memory in general? My parents' gen sure as fuck did not. Some generation before them? Sure, if the economic and cultural elite defines a generation, then the answer is yes, but do you actually think that factory workers in early 20th century Britain gave a flying fuck about poetry? They went to variety shows to entertain themselves, that's the closest they got to high culture.
I want people to actually show me this highly cultured bygone generation, not phantoms of your imagination and then using Harold Bloom, an academic who dedicated his whole life to literature, as an example of a common man. Who were those great readers who predate us?

series are written for a large scale of people, book sometimes not.

The educated class was expected to memorize works. Education in the past was based on copywork and memorization, especially among the upper classes. Comparing an illiterate factory worker to those who actually went to school is disingenuous, just look at the letters civil war soldiers would write to people -- the education was different.

>bad goys aren't reading our Marxist rags Moirekai
>so saaaad Moirekai

Generation Zyklon will oven you first

>Missing the point this much.
Also Generation Z isn't reading at all, you fag.

>just look at these 10 letters that were left after 600,000 soldiers died aren't they written well
When will libshits learn how to argue

Are you retarded?

They do.
That's why modern literature fucking sucks.

>factor workers
>educated
The point I'm making sweetie, is that they weren't educated then as they aren't educated now, despite them "reading more than ever" in the current day.

>just look at the letters civil war soldiers would write to people
Please link a site with a larger sample of them.

>muh Jews muh ZOG muh tinfoil hat

Yeah, people today are much more exposed to high culture. I'm marathoning the Hunger Games later with this bimbo I respect so much.

Fuck off with the millennials meme

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/09/millennials-are-out-reading-older-generations/379934/

>Some 88 percent of Americans younger than 30 said they read a book in the past year compared with 79 percent of those older than 30
88 percent say they did while something like 44 percent actually did. "Millenials" are just more performative than older generations.

Not an argument

youtube.com/watch?v=2DxoxvT997w
But, user, they do.

>88 percent say they did while something like 44 percent actually did
Source?

Is this how you want to back up your claims about millenials not reading - with intentionally ignoring hard written data?
Seriously, you pathetic fucking retard?
Do you see the irony here? Can you see it?

content.lib.washington.edu/civilwarweb/

civil-war.net/searchlinks.asp?searchlinks=letters and diaries

>P-people have always been this retarded

you have to be 18 to post here

>t. 19 year old

One of my favorite anecdotes is when America expanded westward, the groups of travelers all carried with them two books: the complete Shakespeare and the King James Bible. The other user is right about there being a heavier emphasis on memorization and emulation (as they had a greater sense of an 'ideal' way of writing), so taking the two facts in mind you can see why emulating Shakespeare and KJV would produce a generation of majestic, poetic writers. Writing poorly just wasn't really something one was okay with.

A few of our celebrated modern authors have done the same. Even Hunter S. Thompson did copywork, he spent most of his early twenties copying Hemingway and Fitzgerald

What the fuck? Am i misunderstanding this? How have only 55% of high school students read a book?

I don't even think you could have passed elementary school without reading at least 25 books where I lived