"see "the internet" for more examples" And examples of yuri fanboys illustrate how different fandom can be ;)
"++The Belgariad/The Mallorean -- David Eddings" Read the first three-fifths of the Belgariad and stalled over International Tour (The Second). I don't remember why.
"+The Immortals/The Lioness Quartet -- Tamora Pierce" I never got around to this, but I did read the Circle of Magic set... and would call that a ++ myself.
"+The Golden Compass -- Philip Pullman" You read the rest, right?
"Basically, I probably would have finished the Twilight series by 6th grade, and scorned the lack of action and Bella's complete inability to kick ass." :D
I must say that several times suring this post I was reminded why we're friends. As for male reading... I think part of it's the stigma that we shouldn't read socially that we don't. Then the Internet happened and we can be part of internet fandoms without specifically revealing who we are and that we are complete dorks. I was an exception. I read in class constantly; I was a fast test taker and it was the one thing we were allowed to do for pleasure if we finished a test early. As I liked reading in class a lot, this encouraged me to become even faster, and by college I was used to the envious stares boring holes in my backside as I turned in the first final about fifty minutes into the three hour period.
*forcefully returns thought train to tracks* The concept that 'boys don't read' is bullshit. Even the concept that 'boys don't read fiction' is bullshit, but you can find exceptions to that (I find every exception I have ever met boring). I'm probably not the one to ask about such a thing, as I find my sustenance in stories, but I honestly doubt that there are any interesting men who didn't read any sort of fiction as boys.
I'm not sure I'd buy that boys are not social readers at all, but the idea that girls are more social readers is probably true.
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"see "the internet" for more examples" And examples of yuri fanboys illustrate how different fandom can be ;)
"++The Belgariad/The Mallorean -- David Eddings" Read the first three-fifths of the Belgariad and stalled over International Tour (The Second). I don't remember why.
"+The Immortals/The Lioness Quartet -- Tamora Pierce" I never got around to this, but I did read the Circle of Magic set... and would call that a ++ myself.
"+The Golden Compass -- Philip Pullman" You read the rest, right?
"Basically, I probably would have finished the Twilight series by 6th grade, and scorned the lack of action and Bella's complete inability to kick ass." :D
I must say that several times suring this post I was reminded why we're friends. As for male reading... I think part of it's the stigma that we shouldn't read socially that we don't. Then the Internet happened and we can be part of internet fandoms without specifically revealing who we are and that we are complete dorks. I was an exception. I read in class constantly; I was a fast test taker and it was the one thing we were allowed to do for pleasure if we finished a test early. As I liked reading in class a lot, this encouraged me to become even faster, and by college I was used to the envious stares boring holes in my backside as I turned in the first final about fifty minutes into the three hour period.
*forcefully returns thought train to tracks* The concept that 'boys don't read' is bullshit. Even the concept that 'boys don't read fiction' is bullshit, but you can find exceptions to that (I find every exception I have ever met boring). I'm probably not the one to ask about such a thing, as I find my sustenance in stories, but I honestly doubt that there are any interesting men who didn't read any sort of fiction as boys.
I'm not sure I'd buy that boys are not social readers at all, but the idea that girls are more social readers is probably true.