Who DOESN'T like reading?

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By that I mean novels, fiction. I never liked it even when I tried. Didn't matter what book I was reading. It was a chore. Just having to stare down and strain my neck, or physically hold a book up in front of me, is reason enough for me to eagerly desire to put the book down as soon as I can. And I don't like scowering through details that nobody is going to remember or consider deeply. Actually it is at a point now where I don't bother with movies either. If there is a book or movie that sounds interesting, I will search it on wikipedia and read the plot synopsis. Done. I've gained all the cumulative insight and entertainment value I would have gotten from reading the book or watching the movie. In less time.

i read loads, but only caus it's sumat to do.
And if I've read books by Orwell, Kesey, Steinbeck, girls will think I'm deep.

Wrong, you've not gained any of your own insight. All you get out of doing this is the knowledge that OTHER people have gathered something from this work. Which is to say, you've gained nothing.

i hate reading.mostly because it remind me of school.and because i don't want to read 600 pages about a man and his lovely wife, how they lived, what they did, or about the writers thoughts...and on and on.god i HATE books.got a cool movie instead??

I hate fiction. Except certain kinds, I love Asimov and Neil Stephenson.

Reading, even when I enjoy it... sort of puts me to sleep.

I'm much more of a visual/audio learner... and words that are too dense or too descriptive tends to cause bottle necks in my brain. It's like looking at a picture that's too busy... too much information for me to process at the same time.

I do like reading in that much is completed in my brain. It makes my experience with a text unique. Also, for fiction some things are just impossible to represent outside of text... like how someone really feels... their thoughts... fantastic things it's impossible to draw a picture to describe.

One thing about reading that I don't like... especially novels is the time commitment required. On the one hand it can make deeper stories than other mediums... but I don't want to read it unless I'm pretty much guarantied to like it. Since reading isn't my favorite past time... I don't want to put forth the effort to find out I hate it. I kind of need a guide, someone with the exact same preferences for novels that I do, to show me the way.

I don't like reading MOST books. I love reading ones that I like, HATE what I don't like (which is 90% of what's out there).