What gives that a lot of people were able to easily get sucked

Adults have things to deal with, such as jobs, families, taxes, depression etc
Books lose their appeal as they require too much free time investment, something adults don't often have.

>>9489960
Please, most Adults have plenty of free time. More than enough to read. Most of them just that time on some form of social media or watching tv.

>>9489960
that's surely a factor. but why is it so easy for a lot of adults to waste hours on stuff like tv and internet but not reading? is it really more effort?

The younger you are the easier it is to immerse into a fictional reality and wallow in your fantasies. Same reason why video games stop being fun after a certain age. Adults tend to be more concerned with real world.

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>>9489975
There's also plenty of adults reading YA trash nowadays. Browsing the Internet is also reading purely mechanically.

>>9489979
so, wouldn't it make sense then that adults don't stop reading, but progress to something more non-fiction instead of not reading at all or hardly?

>>9489975

People usually say they're "too tired" to read and tv is just easier to consume, but I think they subconsciously know that many books (or great art in general) has themes about the arbitrariness of society and can be outright nihilistic, so they'd much rather consume media that doesn't challenge their world views.