At what point in your life did you start "seriously" reading, and why?

I bet you're 12

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just recently i think, which would be late 20's. although ive read my whole life.. i've realized subconsciously i've established part of my core being as a "Veeky Forums person" and much of my time ill spent had me realizing how i havent been reading as much as i should be

so after a bad patch of social life, i would often go back to reading, never wanting it to end, search out more books i will enjoy.. but then fall off.. due to lack of mental energy etc

now I read all the time and I have no problem dealing with people because I'm not lying to myself anymore.. keeping myself regularly engaged in reading seems to be like being true to myself somehow

Last year, 21 yo. Realized that vidya, porn and movies just made me stressed and depressed. Now my free time is spent on reading and lifting. Life doesn't feel so shit anymore.

Beginning of this year. 24. Because it's a rabbit's hole that never ends but it's pleasurable to fall through.

When I had access to more books

Either your being dishonest or discrediting the worth of iq

When I was a kid, I didn't have TV or vidya (I'm not old, just poor), so I read voraciously. By the time I got into 5th grade, I had crushed hundreds of Boxcar Children, Nancy Drew, Goosebumps type books. I started reading some Ray Bradbury stuff that year, because I liked science-fiction, and it really clicked with me. The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man in particular really changed my perspective on what stories could accomplish. Up to that point the only "real reading" I had done was reading the Bible. As soon as I realized other texts offered the same kind of insights, I was hooked. From there I read all the meme Victorian and Romantic stuff and got hooked.

Nowadays, I don't really care for Bradbury or Victorian literature, but they were a great entry point into literature for me as a kid.

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Age 15 was when I started reading "classics" and actually giving a shit about reading. My freshmen year English teacher destroyed the "mommy' little genius" notion I had of myself for so long. He didn't spare anyone's feelings but he wasn't malicious or cruel. He just knew that everyone was codiled and too cocky about their intelligence so he showed us how much we didn't know or only thought we knew.

Then at age 19 I started to try to read more and really focus on what I liked (partly due to this board and partly due to my Literature professors at college).

Although I still don't read as much as I know can/should. Wish I started earlier and my parents didn't let me watch TV for eight hours a day.

I probably read something like 20-30 books from the time I was 10 to the time I was 24. I've recently decided to make reading a larger focus of my free time and I'm on track to read more books this year than in my entire lifetime.

Some of that comes from having a serious encounter with depression that I came out of this year, and realizing I am now closer to 30 than 20 made me kick this shit into high gear.

Personally, I can't really respect a man that doesn't want to at least understand the great novels, even if he doesn't want to necessarily want to spend the time reading them.

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>Personally, I can't really respect a man that doesn't want to at least understand the great novels

This. I know it's not people's fault if they got rubbish educations, but I don't understand how someone can be comfortable with being alive while completely disregarding such a wonderful and massive part of our culture.

20. I'm on my fourth year of serious reading now, it's had such a positive impact on my life. Every moment is enriched for it.