Reading Growing Up

Sea Sharp · 18-03-2010 05:33PM

Roald Dahl, Goose Bumps & The Harvey Boys.

Biggins · 18-03-2010 05:33PM

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

...Il read anything thats god but what really got me started was harry potter Thats what really opened my eyes to it.

:eek:

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

...As for my spelling its hit and miss.

Fair play, your honest. :cool:

Sea Sharp · 18-03-2010 05:34PM

I find that the spell check on Google Chrome makes the ability to spell correctly or lack thereof obsolete.

happyfriday · 18-03-2010 05:34PM

I was read to and read a lot of books as a child, I read now but I don't really have good spelling skills. I don't think that one is there!!

I'm Dyslexic but have always worked hard to overcome it. I have always loved reading and can read at quite a good pace and a high understanding of what I'm reading. But when it comes to spelling a lot of words I just find it difficult, I can always see the words I want to spell but it never comes out the right way. It's hard to explain, most people just call it lazy but I've never let it stop me from reading or writing for that matter, just need spell check and my dad has never looked at me like I'm an idiot, so at 27 I still get him to proof read for me.

Have a big problem with numbers as well.

My Dad used to read all sorts to me when I was a kid and I loved to read Judy Blume, her book Deenie was the first book to ever make me both laugh out loud and cry.

It wasn't me! · 18-03-2010 05:35PM

Used to read like a fiend, to the extent that I was a fairly introverted child. Don't read as much anymore, but still try to keep a few books on the go. College interferes as much as anything I guess. Language skills are good.

Antbert · 18-03-2010 05:35PM

Biggins wrote: »

:eek:

Fair play, your you're honest. :cool:

... I'm sorry.

I swear that's the only time I'll do it.

Biggins · 18-03-2010 05:37PM

Antbert wrote: »

... I'm sorry.

I swear that's the only time I'll do it.

LOL I should have tried reading a dictionary as well.

The graphics in the Playboys mags were distracting me though!
Thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it!
(Bit like the pages of the mag!)

liah · 18-03-2010 05:37PM

GaNjaHaN wrote: »

I find that the spell check on Google Chrome makes the ability or lack there of to spell correctly obsolete.

The problem with this generation is that people rely far too heavily on spell check. For instance, it'll correct the word, but it may not be the right one in context.

"lose" and "loose" are two different things that get mixed up a lot. They're both correctly spelled but have completely different meanings (e.g. lose = to come in last in a race, loose = the knot isn't tight anymore).

Same with your/you're, to/too/two, except/accept, etc.

Just because the spell check says it's right doesn't mean it is right. Brains need to be used, too.

Sea Sharp · 18-03-2010 05:46PM

liah wrote: »

The problem with this generation is that people rely far too heavily on spell check. For instance, it'll correct the word, but it may not be the right one in context.

"lose" and "loose" are two different things that get mixed up a lot. They're both correctly spelled but have completely different meanings (e.g. lose = to come in last in a race, loose = the knot isn't tight anymore).

Same with your/you're, to/too/two, except/accept, etc.

Just because the spell check says it's right doesn't mean it is right. Brains need to be used, too.

Thats a fare point and very through in my experience.

liah · 18-03-2010 05:48PM

GaNjaHaN wrote: »

Thats a fare point and very through in my experience.

:pac:

Miss Lockhart · 18-03-2010 05:55PM

I was taught to read from the newspaper before I started school, but was not read to in any other context. I read a lot myself as a child though.

I was encouraged to read the "children's classics" such as Alice in Wonderland, A Little Princess, Little Women etc - and I did, but I much preferred Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton and Nancy Drew books.

TPD · 18-03-2010 06:01PM

I was taught to read when I was about 3, I think. On the reading test yokes in primary school I was always about 4 years ahead of average.

On the DS brain training I got 9.something syllables a second, reading aloud. Aww yeah. Dunno if my brain actually takes it in reading that fast though, seems more mirror-like than sponge-like.

Procasinator · 18-03-2010 06:03PM

i cnt mke out wat dis poll is about?!?!!!!!!!!1

Antbert · 18-03-2010 06:04PM

TPD wrote: »

I was taught to read when I was about 3, I think. On the reading test yokes in primary school I was always about 4 years ahead of average.

On the DS brain training I got 9.something syllables a second, reading aloud. Aww yeah. Dunno if my brain actually takes it in reading that fast though, seems more mirror-like than sponge-like.

Let the one-up-manship commence!

18-03-2010 06:09PM

I didn't watch tv as a child, I just read books. I'd have my weekly library allowance of 8 books gone in a couple days.
I think my mother taught me to read before I was 2, she made cute little mini-books and everything. Of course she read to me a lot as well.
I loved shakespeare a lot when I was small

Loved Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl of course, and countless others I couldn't begin to remember.

beanyb · 18-03-2010 06:09PM

I read all the time as a child. The Babysitter's Club and Sweet Valley Twins were my favourites, but I did read Nancy Drew, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and such too. A family friend told me recently that I turned up at her door with a copy of the Irish Times at age 7.

My parents taught me to read before I started school, and I genuinely believe that as a consequence I found school much easier than many of my peers. I didn't have to put effort into reading, because I was already able to do it, so I could more easily absorb maths, Irish etc. I really do believe that something so simple has served me very well.

I don't read as much as I would like anymore. I love books, but with all the college work I have at the moment I only have time to read books I have to read, rather than books I want to read.

Bolag_the_2nd · 18-03-2010 06:14PM

I love to read, as a child and as a adult, i was a very quiet child and i spend a lot of time on my own now. I love the Clan of the Cave Bear saga, Jean M. Auel, a real womans read, my spelling is just ok tbh

Antbert · 18-03-2010 06:15PM

beanyb wrote: »

I read all the time as a child. The Babysitter's Club and Sweet Valley Twins were my favourites, but I did read Nancy Drew, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and such too. A family friend told me recently that I turned up at her door with a copy of the Irish Times at age 7.

My parents taught me to read before I started school, and I genuinely believe that as a consequence I found school much easier than many of my peers. I didn't have to put effort into reading, because I was already able to do it, so I could more easily absorb maths, Irish etc. I really do believe that something so simple has served me very well.

You must've been really fun to hang out with as a kid.

Herbal Deity · 18-03-2010 06:20PM

Poll options are weird and restrictive, can't really vote.

I wasn't really read to very much. I did read a good bit, but was never a complete bookworm.

I don't read books much these days.

My spelling and grammar is good, although it probably was better when I was in school.

I used to be a spelling/grammar Nazi, but have realised recently that being overtly anal about small mistakes in sentences where the semantics are clear is utterly pointless. I laugh at those who get their knickers in a twist over such trivial errors and sometimes even mispell the odd word to irritate them

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SteeveSmith · 18-03-2010 06:24PM

I'm thinking the second option was supposed to be I was not read to as a child but i read a lot of books I read now and have good spelling?

I would read a book a week as a child, read every few days now.

Sleepy · 18-03-2010 06:28PM

Read everything I could get my hands on and still do when I've got the time. Got through all the Enid Blytons, Roald Dahl's etc when I was young.

First 'adult' books I read were the Arthur Hailey's from the age of about 11. Got onto James Clavell at 12 and clipped through 3/4 books a week until I discovered alcohol in college. Only manage a book a week or so nowadays but if I'm on holidays it's pretty much a book a day.

GLaDOS · 18-03-2010 06:28PM

Dad used to read Enid Blyton to me a lot, mostly Famous Five. Used to be mad about Goosebumbs books too.

beanyb · 18-03-2010 06:28PM

Antbert wrote: »

You must've been really fun to hang out with as a kid.

Yeah, being able to, and liking to, read made me such a horrible child that never had any friends. :rolleyes:

Fratton Fred · 18-03-2010 06:44PM

I read my first discworld novel back in November, I am on number five now.

I was read to as a child and encouraged to read books as well, something I also encourage my daughter to do. She loves Roald Dahl and she is also about to start Mr Stinky by David Walliams, it looks good.

citizen_p · 18-03-2010 06:44PM

i didnt read and wasnt read to.....i used to go out with my friends until late and then just do my homework.
used to always be made read in school...where as others would stutter or just say "i don wanna raed"

then again... i never got help with my homwork either since i was 7, and i still do mainly higher level subjects, (besides irish)

Melodeon · 18-03-2010 07:25PM

I've been reading for leisure/entertainment/self-education since I was first introduced to the magic of the written word.
Enid Blyton, Richmal Crompton, Hardy Drew & the Nancy Boys, etc, etc, early on; mostly historical narrative and biographies these days.

cynder · 18-03-2010 07:33PM

I wasnt read to as a child,
I didnt read as a child.
I left school at 11 - 1991
Never stepped foot in secondry school
Didnt go into 6th class as i left half way through 5th
I started a full time job at 14 and moved out of home at 16
I then found the love of reading books
At 21 i did fetec level 1 over 6 months
At 22-24 i did the leaving cert applied -score 196 out of 2oo Pass with distinction - top of the class all others had done the junior cert, i was the only one with no formal education.

I do have a problem with spelling though.

I've now got myself an e reader and read, read, read.

Catari Jaguar · 18-03-2010 07:48PM

I was read to and used to devour books when I was a kid - mostly Enid Blyton (that racist anti feminist!), nice picture books like Eric Carle and Janet & Allan Ahlberg, Beano & Dandy comics and also the Dinosaur magazines. I loved Marita Conlon-Mc Kenna when I was 5th and 6th class. Goosebumps were a favourite too, Sweet Valley High & Babysitters Club. Never liked Roald Dahl.

I only read in secondary school for my Junior Cert & Leaving Cert novels. Which I did enjoy but wouldn't have read them otherwise. I read the Confessions of Georgia Nicholson (Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging) and the J-17 Diary of a Crush series.

As an adult, I like teen fantasy and YA - Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, Twilight, The Mortal Instruments. I read comics like Calvin & Hobbes, the Far Side & Nemi too.

I haven't read most of the classics like Animal Farm, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Lord of the Flies etc. The most grown up books I've read recently were White Oleander & My Sister's Keeper and that's just because I was on holidays and bored.

My spelling has always been top notch though

Generalissimo · 18-03-2010 07:49PM

I read compulsively as a child, going through the usual Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, Hardy Boys, etc. mix and then moved on to whatever was available in the young adult and science fiction sections of the local library. I was happily reading 700+ page books before I got out of primary school (anyone every read the Duncton Wood series of books by William Horwood?) and then mostly stuck with Tom Clancy type books and Terry Pratchett, David Eddings, David Gemmell and Anne McCaffrey in secondary school. I did widen my reading tastes slightly in college and got more into popular science books like those from Stephen Jay Gould. Since then I've not really developed much more as a reader - I think Robert Rankin and Peter F Hamilton are the only two authors I've gotten into in a big way in the past 15 years since secondary school. When I do read these days it's mostly re-reading books that I enjoyed from years ago rather than finding new books to enjoy. Oh, and reading a lot of comic collections/graphic novels.

tl,dr: well read in my youth, not much of a reader now. I was ten times more diverse a reader at the age of 10 than I am now at 32.

OutlawPete · 18-03-2010 07:56PM

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Reading Growing Up

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