For those who don't read the article, this is from Canada

I love the Lord of the Rings but the pace of the adventure is much slower than modern fantasy. There is a lot of walking through nature while not much happens. Tolkien was first. He is definitely worth reading but it can be work.

Coma made me more afraid of doctors and health care providers.

I really struggled with and did not finish Goedel Esther Bach. The Traveling Cat Chronicles and Paper Castles revived my love of reading.

I agree that sports writing needs to be done well to be enjoyable. One good example for me is Grisham 's basketball novel Sulee. It was just well done. But yes it is very easy for writers who love sports to write boring descriptions because they assume everyone is an enthusiast.

Don't skip the Death of Ivan Ilyich. It is one of the best books in my opinion and also short.

I found this book boring when I was a child. I should go back and reread it.

I try to read a certain amount of time per day. If you read r/suggestmeabook for a while you get insight into a lot of different goals that people have for reading. Some of them are inspiring.

Even a wikipedia article about erogenous zones can be helpful. People learn in different ways.

Disagree. I suppose you also think Youtube videos are needed to learn auto mechanics, or autocad for mechanical design and architecture.

As for working against you, porn is normalizing choking and other dangerous play with no disclosure about risk.

People learn with the resources available. The Joy of Sex was a game changer.

There is a lot of great nonfiction writing out there. Branch out. Go to r/suggestmeabook and search for nonfiction. I like the Ghost Map and The Man Who Mistook his wife for a hat.

Wind in the Willows I think, Traveling Cat Chronicles

Reading on an e-reader like kindle is a game changer for hard words with one touch look up.

Thank you. While reading a review, I also discovered this film, do you know it? https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis-1971

You might like the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, or Dorothy Sayers romance in her mystery novels, starting with Strong Poison.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I had similar feelings reading two pieces of American literature, the Jungle and Death of a Salesman. For nonfiction, King Leopold's Ghost and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

Economics is complicated and no one knows exactly how it works, but injustice and oppression are definitely part of it.

If you get them kindles, they can do one touch look up definitions of words they might not know. The boy might like some Roald Dahl. I like Danny Champion of the World. Maybe Hunger Games for the girl.

The Black Swan and Antifragile by Taleb, Animal Farm, Watership Down, the Hobbit, Death of Ivan Illych, Death of a Salesman

Same. It means I can read a book rather than scrolling reddit on a bus, or in bed after lights out.

Agreed. A great book. I think it's a little inaccessible for people with no background in religion though. Worth the struggle.

I don't have children, but for my nieces, I have shared Amelia Bedelia, Pippi Longstocking, Charlotte's Web, The Wizard of Oz and the Chronicles of Prydain.