(30 Sep 2014, 2:38 pm)Dan wrote As an AS English student, I always feel somewhat embarrassed to admit that I don't enjoy reading, and it's unlikely that I've picked up a book to read it for entertainment in over five years.
I do enjoy listening to novels, which is why I was rather quick to volunteer my teacher to read in English lessons opposed to us reading out loud, but I'm not a great fan of reading them myself. It seems like more of a chore, if nothing else, and I struggle to find the time to read a book in addition to everything else that I do.
I'm a huge fan of the Harry Potter movie series, and I'd suggest that it'd probably be a similar story for other pieces of literature which have been 'converted' into film.
As a top set English student, who has previously been an 'assistant librarian', shown an author around the school and been handpicked for many book clubs and field trips to cinemas and theaters, I always just say I read one book every term.
In actual fact, I despise reading. I love writing however, but I'm notoriously a 'melotopical' writer, according to many English teachers. I find it hard to write about something other than soldiers going over the top and being killed - it's much easier than to write an erotic novel, let me tell you that.....I've tried......