Readers Read Part 1
by Jacob Malewitz
The power is in your hands, young reader, old scholar. You can sit in front of the TV all day and play video games, wasting away, or you can play the thinking game.
The power is in your hands, young reader, for you can pick up a classic, get bored to tears, pick up a genre novel, say “This ain’t so bad,” and just start reading. Readers read. It’s a fun, joyous experience. They sit in coffee shops and book storees because they like reading so much, so very much, nothing is better in the world. So what are you waiting for?
Oh, I know exactly what your waiting for. The right time to read. You don’t want to think about all this and that, why he should pick her instead of the other one, why she started a small detective agency, why this young fella named Frodo has to go up all the mountains to another place. Yes, movies and TV shows have their place in the world. No, they are not wastes. They can tell readers different kind of stories with moving images. But the power is in your hands, as it always has been. Fun. Isn’t it? To pick up a brand new book in a small bookstore that is selling it for a steal. Fun, isn’t it, to pick up an old copy of a Hemingway in a garage sale and wonder why it costs a quarter. Who knows, maybe none of this will happen.
When you read Stephen King and Clive Barker, finding the horror each writer provides, what do you see? I see Stephen King as a man on the edge—read The Shining and find out. I see Clive Barker as a stealthy little writer who pens these little, but big, horrors with such a power its hard to put them down. Don’t you see it too?
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