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Originally Posted by sonicl
I love to read, but I think that the biggest obstacle to people enjoying reading is that they read what they feel they ought to read, rather than what they want to read. They force themselves to read Camus and Cocteau (for example) because they believe it is an important intellectual exercise, but their brains aren't necessarily ready for philosophical meanderings. People need to read the Dan Browns and the J K Rowlings in order to get their brains used to the exercise of reading and understanding.
That said, I prefer to use reading either as education or entertainment, rather than as an intellectual exercise.
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I think in a way you are sort of right. I read a lot of Star Wars books, Michael Crichton books, and Tom Clancy books before I started reading anything good. I think the first really good book I read was Catch-22 when I was 16.