I was never into reading most of my life, but now I’m a junior in high school and after reading The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman in my English class I realized what I was missing out on. I told my family about this they were extremely excited. I asked my dad if he had any good book suggestions and he said that Michael Crichton was his favorite author and all of his books are great. I did some research and found out the wrote the novel version Jurassic Park . My family took me to Barns & Noble where we bought the two books. My father told me that he had read the books and that they were better than the movies. I finished reading Jurassic Park and I agreed with him. If you have not read it yet I highly recommend it.
I’m only 23 lol so I’m not sure I qualify for such an old man comment but I’m glad to see younger kids getting into reading. Especially young men (which I don’t know if you are lol, just saying) who statistically are really reading way way way less these days.
As a young guy who loves reading after getting into it when I first went to college, I’ve gotten five of my guy friends to start reading and they all love it now but beforehand they literally never even considered it as possible entertainment.
Literature is such a unique media form because it relies so much on your own imagination, I really think if people give it a chance they see its value. Problem is people just get assigned books in school and have to make annotations and notes and it just turns it into work instead of leisure. I think a lot of people these days, especially men from what it seems, continue to associate it simply with work and not entertainment.