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toto <scarecrow@wicked.witch> wrote:
>>To their detriment (and it is an unfair supposition), this disinclination to read
>>books and novels is perceived as a dislike or disinterest in reading. I
>>propose boys feel reading must have a purpose, or it must engage them.
>>Hence, the reading of comic books is prolific, 
>
>Why would novels not engage them when comic books do?  There are 
>plenty of stories with action in novels. 

Time spent per unit of action.  When there is WWF (or Power Rangers at
the younger age) on television, it is hard to find a book with that
level of action per unit of time.  Comic books can emulate it because
you can read them FAST.

>Literature must engage girl's interests too or they won't want to read
>it either. This gender distinction seems odd to me.

From what I've seen, at the age where boys stop reading, girls get
extremely interested in social interaction as well as idealized love
and romance.  They are INTERESTED in spending time on observing
conversational interaction, even in print.  Boys at that stage are
more likely to want to move around, and have little interest in the
details of conversation.

My daughter reads more than my son, but neither likes "literature",
because the books that constitute literature do not cater to juvenile
tastes.

lojbab