Journal #1 for High Fidelity, How to Read

Finally, a person who got it right, and Nick Hornby was right on the spot. His message overall was read what you want to read, and if you don’t like it, don’t read it. I have felt like that for my entire life. I am not the kind of person who loves reading, and that is an absolute truth. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t read something because you don’t like it, especially if it’s for a class. The difference is between leisure and forced, you can’t get around forced reading it’s inevitable. One thing that I absolutely had to agree with, and it dealt with church. Nick wrote, “When I was nine years old, I spent a few unhappy months in a church choir (my mum's idea, not mine). And two or three times a week, I had to sit through the sermon, delivered by an insufferable old windbag of a vicar.” I have been going to church for 17 years and I understand the boredom that happens when you are there, and sometimes it is intolerable. Even after that I still had to struggle through it and even read some of the bible, but it wasn’t all bad. But I suppose in this day, a person would rather sit down and watch TV instead of reading a chapter in a book, but that’s just what I believe.