I enjoy reading, but can't make a habit of it. What motivates you to keep reading, or finish a book, rather than get distracted with any number of other things?
Ideally, I'd like to have a busty cheerleader behind me at all times shouting "GO GO READ READ!!!"
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Anonymous2005-01-08 22:23
>Ideally, I'd like to have a busty cheerleader behind me at all times shouting "GO GO READ READ!!!"
I'd rather she be doing something else, but I digress...
I've never really had a problem sticking with a book, I can probably count the number of books I've actually failed to finish on both hands... part of that is that I'm weak, and generally only read things that I find particularly interesting.
Perhaps it would be worth considering to set aside some time each day, say before bed. That's what I tend to do.
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Anonymous2005-01-09 18:00 (sage)
Sometimes I am motivated by "When I finish this book, I get to start THIS book!" -- I have many books I need to read.
Right now a very minor motivator is that when I read I sit on my bed. My room gets super cold at night (and during the day) if I make a habit of doing this before I go to sleep, I will sleep on a newly warmed bed!
Sometimes I get unmotivated to finish a book because I just don't want it to end.
Aside from those things, I guess I also just read books that I want to read. So I am motivated to get through them by default.
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Anonymous2005-01-09 20:19
If I've been reading a lot of books, especially if they're from the same author/series, I can get tired of that pretty easily and just lose interest. It picks up again after a while if I do other things. Try carrying the book around with you, so that you can read it in spare moments. Maybe you'll get into a really exciting part and get more motivation.
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Anonymous2005-01-09 20:32 (sage)
I've been motivated to read a lot BECAUSE they are from the same author (Haruki Murakami).
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Anonymous2005-01-09 23:28
I also find it difficult to be motivated to read a book. There is more literature in the world that I would like to read than anyone could read in a year, but when I sit down with a book or a textfile or webpage of a book I feel like I'd rather play videogames like Half-Life 2. I find it difficult even to complete some long videogames, or to finish a long project.
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Anonymous2005-01-10 2:12
I love reading, and nothing like TV or video games can compare to the accomplished feeling I get when I finish a very good book. There have been times when the books themselves were hard to get into and I just stopped reading them, but I am almost always reading a book. Currently I am reading the Kite Runner. What motivates me to read is the thought of more books to read, and what ideas I can get from the book. Also, books are my inexpensive escape from reality anywhere I am. I don't have that many GBA SP games.
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Anonymous2005-01-10 14:27
Personally, it just depends how good (or not) the I find book is. If the story is slow paced and really not written very well, I might just read it in small bits, each night (or just give it up entirely), otherwise, I just keep on reading. Ring took me three hours... some book I forget the name of, probably because it wasn't very good, took me three weeks.
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Anonymous2005-01-11 9:53
２ちゃんねるのパクリですかここは
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Anonymous2005-01-12 8:05
If I don't find a book sufficiently engaging I just drop it.
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Anonymous2005-01-13 17:31 (sage)
I read on the loo.
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Anonymous2005-01-19 3:55
>>11
I do too, but I don't take long on the toilet so I barely have enough time to read one page.
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0037!A0z7CY5eG22005-01-19 5:08
A few months in rehab will get you reading again...
what motivates me to keep reading? i just enjoy it more than, say, watching movies or cartoons. it's just like asking 'what motivates you to watch trillers/anime/mlp etc'
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Right now I finished TBOTNS, in which I cared about the little adventures by themselves, they always were enough to surprise me, and I awaited for the next mind-bending thing to come up.
After it I started A Scanner Darkly, and the first 100 pages I just FORCED me to continue, for I had the certainty I'd like it. Right now it is starting to be interesting.
The same happened with Hyperion, my favourite work ever. The first 50 pages are ridden with nothingness, and the only thing that motivated me to go along was the promise of it turning to something better. After that slow start, the motivation came from the plot, the characters and the setting themselves.
Other things, like for example reading Camus' essays, motivate with the message and arguments he is trying to convey. They expose A and D, and you want to know how they'll explain A->B->C->D
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Anonymous2013-02-19 4:33
Hey OP
Are you still here? Are you trapped here like me?