Does the war influence your reading choices? Are you able to escape into literature knowing that your country (assuming you are from the U.S.) is heavily involved in a war that seems to be getting worse every day?
2007-07-11 15:08:04 · 9 answers · asked by God_Lives_Underwater 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Yes it does. Here lately I have started re-reading the books that made me feel good when I was younger, like The Darma Bums, The Electric Koolaid Acid Test, On the Road. Also novels like Stranger in a Strange Land, LOTR, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I also seem to be leaning towards books that have a darker theme. These feel-good chick lit books make me want to scream sometimes. I can't even look sideways at a Nicholas Sparks novel. I know it's because of the mood that the news puts me in.
I've also picked up reading on history, other wars, other Empires. I started slacking off on that about 10 years ago.
Who knows, maybe when it's over I can tolerate sweetness again. I don't know.
2007-07-11 17:14:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use reading as an escape from reality. Sometimes when I keep on hearing about all these horrible things going on in the world I just want to escape. And a book is a great way to do that.
2007-07-11 22:37:52 · answer #2 · answered by Eugene 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If anything, the "war" acts as a motivation to read even more than I already do.
All the "reasons" behind war are so tried and true that if people would just read history, actual history and books with hard words, they would see that it is NOTHING NEW.
Terrorism, freedom, rights, struggles against tyranny, have been dealt with FAR BETTER than Hannity or O'Reily's sandy vagina's could ever describe it. The debates are real and they are never going away, but unfortunately they have been delegated to opinion rather than sound rational debate with concise points.
I wish people would read more regardless of war or peace.
2007-07-11 22:19:40 · answer #3 · answered by ModerndayMadman 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have been in Iraq for 19 months now and still read anything and everything I can get my hands on. Reading is educational,reality or escape from reality. It is whatever you want it to be. Enjoy what you want to read . And yes, I am a U.S. citizen.
2007-07-11 22:26:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Frankly, no.
Maybe because reading helps you forget the war, and at the same time it reminds you of all the beautiful things in the world.
2007-07-11 23:04:34 · answer #5 · answered by Letizia 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, it really doesn't affect my reading. That's the point of reading to escape into something else.
2007-07-11 22:11:10 · answer #6 · answered by :) 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Nope
2007-07-11 22:12:22 · answer #7 · answered by jose g 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Of course! reading is what gets you AWAY from the real world!
2007-07-11 22:21:15 · answer #8 · answered by Kay-Kay 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
no not at all
2007-07-11 22:11:45 · answer #9 · answered by Michael M 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋