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- ChromaVita, on 10/31/2007, -5/+49God damn these comments are cheesy.
- FyreGoddess, on 10/31/2007, -1/+38Personally, I think it's more important for teens to learn to enjoy reading than for them to be reading the "right" kinds of literature. That comes with time.
Most teens for many years now, have been forced to wade through books they weren't interested in in High School. Many of them wind up turned off of literature and books in general. Think about all the studies that have come out this year about how few people read and how few books people read in a year.
When my son was first learning to read, I encouraged him to read whatever he wanted, even if it was comic books, as long as he was reading. Now that he's a teenager, he's more willing to take suggestions and read classics that are found within our personal library, while his school forces him into reading books he doesn't relate to and doesn't enjoy.
But when a 14 year old boy is reading, by choice, Farenheit 451 and Lord of the Flies in addition to comic books and vapid candy-like books, I can't help but believe that I must have done something right and I stand by my choices in letting him learn to enjoy reading on his own terms.
Teach the kids to love reading, THEN start giving them the books they're "supposed" to read. - Prathik89, on 10/30/2007, -1/+38Millennials? wtf?, ah well, at least it sounds better then the 'baby boomers' though..
- Chompy, on 10/30/2007, -0/+30Millennials, not "Millennial's".
Irony? You decide. - doctorfungi, on 10/30/2007, -0/+27As long as it's not the "MySpace generation"
- inactive, on 10/30/2007, -0/+18Sure we're reading, but what crap we read. "Gossip Girls"!? Please.
I'm 16 years of age, and I read tons of books, but nothing much at all from the "Young Adult" genre. Aside from HP, it's mostly just crap. Books like I, Robot, Tunnel in the Sky, Starship Troopers, the Sword of Truth series, the Miles Vorkosigan series, Sherlock Holmes... Now these are real books.
What possible benefit can someone gain from a light horror story written in "chat-speak"? All you get out of that are worsened grammar and spelling skills. - lpmiller, on 10/30/2007, -0/+17these naming schemes - baby boomer, Gen X and Y, and now this, are just to help marketing folk put you in a box for easy selling. Now you too can spend the rest of your life reading articles about how you supposedly are and what you supposedly buy as if you are one giant group mind. Enjoy!
- stoweaway, on 10/30/2007, -3/+19"I think the Internet is enhancing reading,"
This is true. The article references a girl who uses Wiki to look up references she isn't familiar with. PJ Haarsma had the right idea developing a free online game to go with his book. The more "plugged-in" a book is, the better. It's good to know writers have found a way to keep teens interested in reading. - Hayaemsay, on 10/30/2007, -0/+16That was my initial thought, and I've always wondered what half assed name my generation was going to be labelled as.
- NinjaM, on 10/30/2007, -6/+21How wonderful to read that so many teens are excited about reading as entertainment.
- AlmostAnderson, on 10/30/2007, -7/+22Coming from a bookstore employee, this is a deceiving article. These teens are not headed for any understanding of the written word, they are reading bull from the "teen section," which is pretty much a glorified romance/modern day sci-fi section of gimmicky crap. Books were once the tools that expanded the mind in a way television and computers just couldn't, but the rapid stream of consciousness format in writing is ruining literature. Fiber less journal entries accounting empty and immediate emotions. Glorification of a mass mind, rather than understanding real, hardworking, hard thinking individuals with individual dreams and thoughts. The summer reading lists get more and more juvenile and current each year. These "millennial s" have no hold over phonemes, and we're headed for that foretold McLuhanian removal of literature, in it's place? Movie treatments. Jurassic Park will soon be more revered than Ulysses.
- UtopiaInTheSky, on 11/05/2007, -3/+18Thanks mom.
- supermajic, on 10/30/2007, -2/+16tldr
- NeoSporin, on 10/31/2007, -2/+15u doesnt no wat ur talkin aboat
- inactive, on 10/30/2007, -0/+13the "Cam-Whore Generation"
- commiecat, on 10/30/2007, -0/+12Where the ***** did that apostrophe come from?
- Chompy, on 10/30/2007, -0/+12Agreed. Most classics are the books that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
- inactive, on 10/30/2007, -0/+11"Generation X" or some *****.
- Sentinel88, on 10/30/2007, -1/+12Good for you. "Young adult" is really for middle school kids. It's books that aren't children's books because they have normal font and lack pictures (mostly), but don't think for a minute that anyone expects a 16-yr-old to be browsing through the Hardy Boys and Goosebumps.
Based on your reading list, check out Jurassic Park, Snowcrash, and Brave New World. - ManicA, on 10/30/2007, -6/+16The term "Millenial" was coined by Howe and Strauss, two demographers who have come up with a cyclical model of generational history. They've described Millenials as a 'Hero' generation, as we were born in an unravelling, and are expected to fight through an oncoming crisis, just like the last Hero Generation did... who were were children through the depression and then had the joy of fighting the second world war.
Bad news guys, the future sucks.
read more here; http://www.fourthturning.com/html/archetypes_2.htm ... - Murdats, on 11/05/2007, -3/+12or an ebook on your pda.
being able to keep 20 books in your pocket that are 1 button press away that remembers your page and is visible in the dark, and varies in text size according to how tired your eyes are is quite convienent. - rune420, on 10/30/2007, -0/+9The comments are right though. How often do we hear about kids doing drugs, shooting up schools, etc. I think it's genuinely nice to hear kids are reading more again, maybe the future of our species isn't so screwed after all.
- doctorfungi, on 10/30/2007, -3/+12"Millenial" sounds like some kind of STD...
- TSCheredar, on 10/30/2007, -1/+9New Rule: Old people don't get to decide generational names anymore on account of they're horrible.
- cindylauper, on 10/30/2007, -3/+11I refuse to refer to any group as millenials, thats just stupid
- flxfxp, on 10/30/2007, -1/+9idk, my bff jill?
- Firehed, on 10/30/2007, -0/+7Reading habits aside, I'd like to take a brief moment to thank you for raising your child in a way that didn't result in a Darwin Award-esque headline and all of the diggers commenting that it's all the parents' faults. We need more sane, competent parents.
- Firehed, on 10/31/2007, -1/+8Agreed - I've got probably about 5,000 pages equivalent in ebook form on my unspecified mobile device. It takes a total of maybe 10MB of storage (FAR less than the audiobooks I have, which in themselves are fairly small relative to music as you can use 32k mono and not want to stick a pencil through your ears), and would last hundreds of hours. It's not the same as the paperback version, but it's certainly more convenient.
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+6I practically lived in the library as a teen... Trust me, just because your group of friends is functionally illiterate doesn't mean that all teenagers are.
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+6Oh good, I won't have to be the grammar nazi here... I don't think it's ironic; I think it's just sad.
- arpnuke, on 10/30/2007, -5/+11AKA: Pussies.
- ZernanToledo, on 10/30/2007, -0/+6Why are you getting dug down? I've read this too and The Fourth Turning is a facinating view of cyclical history, which lets not forget, was the only way we viewed time until the advent of christianity and 'end times' views of the universe.
- mstoneburner, on 10/30/2007, -1/+6They did the same thing to Generation X and Y. Stop whining you little punk.
- speedyrev, on 10/30/2007, -1/+6Welcome to 1990's sociology. The term has been used for a long time now. The term "Mosaics" is also used for that same group.
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5Only partly true... When I _had to_ read some of the classics in high school and college, I disliked them immensely.... But when I go back and re-read them because I _want_ to it's an entirely different experience. I suddenly see why Jane Austen is so popular, and why "Catch-22" is so damned funny. And you can disregard AlmostAnderson's lament for Ulysses - I graduated at the top of my class as an English BA, and I still found it hopelessly obscure. Yes, I _could_ read it if I chose, but I can think of any number of ways I'd rather spend my time.
- Murdats, on 10/30/2007, -2/+7another great thing about pda's, books + movies + music + internet +......
all that fits in your pocket. - otaku244, on 10/31/2007, -1/+6This should be buried because you didn't take the 30 seconds to read that the Wikipedia article about "Millennials." If you had, you would have realized that it's not just teens, it's anyone born between 1975 - 2000 and that reading books is just a SMALL portion of what characterizes this group.
This would be the equivalent of saying that generation x is characterized by skateboards or punk rock.
The article was decent though. - Zippo, on 10/31/2007, -1/+6Kids born in 1990 are now going to college/university... Hell, kids born in 2000 are now seven years old.
God I feel old now. - Mikesendker, on 10/30/2007, -0/+5Hehe, typical teenage reading list. Sci-fi out the yingyang. I'm not going to knock I, Robot. I find Phillip K Dick to be a great storyteller (A Scanner Darkly anyone?) but you might want to pick up stuff of greater literary value. Brave New World is one. Try 1984 by Orwell or Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Atlas is actually thick as hell so you might try Fountainhead.
- toxicityj, on 10/30/2007, -1/+5I'd prefer to be known as the Internet Generation.
- FearFactory, on 10/30/2007, -0/+4thug emo seems more like it
- FadieZ, on 10/31/2007, -1/+5I just wrote a comment and realized how lame it was so I decided to replace it with this pointless explanatory sentence. Please bury.
- PenguinFF, on 11/05/2007, -11/+15There's nothing like the feeling of a book in your hands...Kids need to learn that reading is fun and the most important thing you can do....read and the whole world is open to you!
- Mothrog, on 10/30/2007, -0/+4Yawn... Why exactly is sci-fi low man on the literary totem pole? There's plenty of fine writing in sci-fi, and there's plenty of garbage in other genres.
- Brianguy2000, on 10/30/2007, -0/+4I used to read a lot of fantasy novels when I was in High School and now that I'm older I enjoy reading the classics. The point I'm making is that if I hadn't enjoyed reading in the first place then I probably wouldn't have started reading wonderful classic literature or many other interesting genres.
- ByteGuerilla, on 10/30/2007, -0/+4Because that's obviously more important, right? How's that football scholarship coming along ....
- ayeroxor, on 10/30/2007, -0/+4Asimov, Ray Badbury. Heck, believe it or not, check out the other Oz series books such as Lost Princess of Oz, Tin Woodman of Oz, etc. L. Frank Baum's writings are actually quite philosophical and entertaining. Wizard of Oz made a decent movie but stripped out the details that made it Baum. Return to Oz, while still not 100% faithful to the book, is actually more authentic than Wizard, by quite a long shot. And of course, anyone who enjoys life and reading will enjoy all four books of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy.
- KingGorilla, on 10/30/2007, -0/+3As an avid reader I just can't do it! It feels so unnatural. An ebook might help with referencing a book but I don't think I read fast enough to need to carry 20 books with me
- MrVictor, on 10/30/2007, -0/+3Wow. The submitter need's to get's some's schooling's.
http://www.angryflower.com/aposter3.jpg - Chompy, on 10/31/2007, -2/+5It's a Reading Raaaiiinbooow!
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