DEAD READING CULTURE,KILLED BY TECHNOLOGY.

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MY Four books of all time are 1,WITCHING HOUR. by Ann Rice, BONTIFIRE OF VANITY by Thomas Wolfe. WAR AND PEACE by Tolstoy. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Pyodor Dostoevsky. lhave read hundreds of books so should know.w


   I started reading very early in life.Istarted with fairy tales like snow white,  beauty and beast etc.Then blue beard and his murdered locked wives,which really scared me.Then ARABIAN NIGHT ENCHANTING STORIES,LIKE SIMBAD THE SAILOUR I was there with him.I moved into folklore era with GREECE FOLKLORES,ENGLISH FOLKLORE,but the one that had a long lasting effect on me was FOLK TALES FROM SCOLTLAND.looking for it to read once more.

   Then I graduated into romantice stories,like MILLS AND BOOM.DENNIS ROBINS.really believing in the happily ever after stories. then I graduated into crime stories with JAMES HARLEY CHASES I bought and own all his books like MISS BLANDISH WAVE A WAND.THE THINGS MEN .COME EASY GO EASY.l read them all and lost all to my brothers friends.SIDNEY SHELDOM .DAN BROWN.ANN RULE who is a wonderful crime writer.many many  novels which i had spent a lot buying reading.Even science fictions. MYSTICAL WRITERS like India mystic ROSPSY RAMPA fasinated me at a time.DENNIS WHEATLEY,STEPHEN KING etc.

   when it come to religious and so called inspirational books,I have read the Bible,Koran,Gray message volumes in THE LIGHT OF THE TRUTH,AMOC etc in search of the truth about why are we here and how. those books like how to be a billionaire and how to be sucessful in life bore me to hell.Had never finished one.These books are kind of fake to me.I had always believe one need hard work and very good luck to be rich, which is also relative.

  Now what do you have? no body is reading any thing again.in my hey days high school graduates walk about with fat novels like TAI-PAN. SHOGUN by James Clavell.  MANCHU by Robert Elegance books by MAUGHAN SOMEREST. books by GRAHAM GREENE like BRIGHTON ROCK etc as nerds to show off to girls, While girls move around with Barbara Bradford fat novels like A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCES ,HOLD THE DREAM, THE WOMEN IN HIS LIFE ETC .JILL COOPER novels ,JUDITH KRAVTNS books just to show the boys that they are sophisticated.

   like i said; not any longer.Every body is into movies, GAMES, PINGING.W.ho want to read when one can spend the time watching movies like HARRY POTTER SERIES for younger children, X MEN LORD OF THE RINGS,SMALLVILLE,300,GAME OF THE THRONE,24 etc for boys and MEXICAN SOAP OPERA,now we have SOAP OPERA from PHILIPHINES and SOUTH KOREA are into serious film making.I love KOREA traditional movies with the beautiful clothes worn in the movies, can even speak a little and am heading there for my next vacation out of curiosity after watching a lot of their movies. Even E-BOOKS are not working young people hate  fat books and are totally bored with any thing more than text from their schools.  READING IS NOT JUST COOL.
  
  So been a best writer now  means nothing  at all, expect if the books areturned into movies. The Nigeria wave making celebrated author CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE was just an object of curiosity to people who had heared of her books like PURPLE HIBISCUS, HALF OF A YELLOW SUN ,THE THING AROUND HER NECK, AMERICANH She only became famous when the book HALF OF A YELLOW SUN was turned into a movies and was showned in movie houses all over the country. to get young people to start reading will be pretty hard now with all these weapons of technology around them.Nobody cares about spoken English now, as no one cares onces you can bing understandable words.
 so what is to be done depend on the parents to help very young children to reclaim the lost reading culture, and get into the joy of it.