Young Herding

I have never understood the appeal of books. Personally I have never enjoyed reading and don't know why people do. I suppose its just something used for entertainment. Some people watch movies, play sports, play video games, and others read books. So what exactly is the appeal of reading a book? Do you get involved with the characters, putting yourself into the story? Do you just like hearing the stories? Is it to further your vocab and literature skill? I really have no idea. I guess this is more of a polling post then a cultural inference. When i was younger i used to have to do A.R. which stood for like acedemic reader or something like that. But basically i was required to read so many books in each quarter and i hated it. However, some people already liked reading books so they would have like triple the required amount by the time the quarter was over. Actually a lot of school is like this. We have required classes and why? Shouldn't the student get to choose what he wants to learn about? Shouldn't it be what interests him? Instead we are forced to take certain classes that we may hate which could greatly affect how we do in school and ultimately life. Is this fair? What do you think?