My character...

1. What is his or her name? - John Smith
2. What does he or she do for a living? Salesman for a big company
3. What is his or her height/weight/hair color and style/body type? 6'1" medium build brown hair and eyes.
4. What type of clothes does he or she usually wear? Nice suit and tie.
5. Best qualities? People person, good sense of humor
6. Worst qualities? controlling, a little egotistic
7. How does he or she come across? Easygoing? Short-tempered? Etc. easy going, yet kind of cocky
8. Weaknesses? can be self centered, not very honest
9. What or who does he or she hate? He hates being home a lot
10. What or who does he or she love? loves to travel and earning money

Rob....struggles

Rob is a funny character. I find how he thinks and his situations funny. I enjoy him being so pessimistic about everything. Even though his life isn't funny for him it hilarious. Honestly I cannot relate to Rob since I've had a girlfriend for the last 2 years. He has had many stories of bad break ups, which i don't have and he has been dumped more than once, which i haven't. His relationship with laura makes me laugh to due to the fact that he loves her and at the beginning it starts with him saying she doesn't really phase him. I'm enjoying his character and the book, i don't like reading, but the story is entertaining.

How to read response

Nick Hornby suggests that “how to read” is to pick a book that you will enjoy reading. He believes the problem with most people when it comes to reading, is that they read things they think they should read or other people say they should read rather than reading things that they’ll enjoy. Hornby even gives the example of when he was reading books then writing for a magazine column. There was a reoccurring problem when it came to how he was writing his column. Hornby had to rewrite or put “unnamable author” or “anonymous title” in many of his articles because he didn’t have good things to say about the books he was writing about. So the solution would quite simply be to find and read a book one would enjoy.

I agree with Hornby’s advice on picking a book you enjoy. I’ve read books in the past because I had to and I completely hated reading them. I’ve read books for my previous classes and I don’t remember what the books were called. I’ve like two books that I can remember, “Bud not Buddy” and “Life of Pi” and I liked those because they were funny mostly. I agree with Hornby about reading and finding books you know you’ll like, my only problem is I don’t know how to find one.

reading???

Reading books has never been very interesting to me. Ever since I was little I didn’t like to read. I’ve always been into visuals, movies, and video games, but I’ve never had the desire to crack open a book.
I enjoy seeing the story unfold, rather than imagining it. Books just take too much effort. First of all it takes forever to just read one book, then you have to imagine visuals from the descriptions you read. I would rather watch a movie and see all the descriptive material and its over in about 2 hours. I can get the same story by reading or watching a movie, and the movie is over much quicker, it makes me like reading even less.
Even though I don’t like reading at all there are books that I’d rather read than others, that is saying if I must read I do have preferences. I don’t like historical books or books that are factual. I have enjoyed the fiction novels I’ve read over the non fiction, and since I enjoy fictional television and videogames, I would prefer a fictional book.
I honestly wish that I would enjoy reading. It would make my life easier in school and reading is good for you, but I just don’t enjoy. I’ve tried to read for just enjoyment before but I never enjoy myself. I have read books and liked them but the process of reading them is dreadful to me. That is why I prefer movies. I like the stories but its just so much quicker to watch them. Maybe in the future I’ll like to read but for right now I strongly dislike reading.