my older brother is completely uninterested in fiction in any form. or non-fiction too, tbh. just not interested in narratives. he reads like, sports almanacs and spends a lot of time making excel spreadsheets full of data about shit like ocean tides and rollercoasters. tbh like i know that a lot of people look down on ppl who don't read but i feel like if you are intellectually stimulating yourself in some sort of way who the fuck cares? i have always felt bad for my brother tho bc everyone else in our fam is very book/tv/movie/art oriented and it must be very alienating
Your brothers spreadsheets sound interesting. What prompts him to make them?
I think my brother has a huge aversion to reading novels and stuff because school + my mom are always forcing him to read. He reads manga but my mom doesn't count it as "real reading" even though manga is... so now he has it in his head he won't be able to enjoy anything without graphics.
he works in urban planning so i think he does a lot of that kind of stuff for his job and he thinks it's interesting so he just applies the same methodologies he uses to organize information to other topics that appeal to him (he used to be a lifeguard so he organizes data about ocean stuff, etc.) it's not something that makes any sense to me but whatever makes him happy! he was always super into math and stuff so it makes sense
wrt ur bro like i understand why schools have to require reading novels because like...it's cultural literacy, u just gotta, but it's really depressing how often that requirement just turns people off of literature forever
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Anyway, I'm currently reading Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff. I loveee it so far.
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I think my brother has a huge aversion to reading novels and stuff because school + my mom are always forcing him to read. He reads manga but my mom doesn't count it as "real reading" even though manga is... so now he has it in his head he won't be able to enjoy anything without graphics.
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wrt ur bro like i understand why schools have to require reading novels because like...it's cultural literacy, u just gotta, but it's really depressing how often that requirement just turns people off of literature forever
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