I'm 30. When I was a kid boys read lord of the rings or Dune and girls read harry potter. Is it still like that?
You were a teenager when Harry Potter came out.
>>9510539
No.
No, nowadays people don't read at all unless they absolutely have to. Apart from people who do like books, but those don't tend to stay at just those books.
>>9510545
This.
>>9510549
This.
>>9510545
Yes a young teenager. Very much still a kid. You will notice that as you get older. I used to hate teens. Now I hate people that have just turned the legal drinking age. They are insufferable.
>>9510539
When you were a kid girls read Harry Potter, boys read Harry Potter, women read Harry Potter and men didn't read at all.
>>9510603
Huh? When I was a kid boys thought harry potter was gay. He's a witch for God sakes. Who's ever heard of a male witch?
>>9510539
salon.com or /pol/
>>9510621
>Why were you reading children's books as a teenager?
Why do you bait?
>>9510621
He has a little wand. Witches use wands. Wizards use staffs. Haven't you ever played elder scrolls daggerfall or arena?
>>9510629
You're ridiculous.
No, kids these days are too busy having sex to care about books. Girls are giving their first handjobs at eleven and losing their virginity by twelve, fourteen at the very latest. Books are only read serious by a small subset of undesirables.
>>9510615
Nah. According to a press release from HP's US publisher Scholastic in 2006:
>More boys than girls have read Harry Potter (57% vs. 51%), and a greater number of boys than girls say that they did not read books for fun before Harry Potter (61% vs. 41%). More boys than girls say that it was important for them to read Harry Potter so that they would feel "in" with their friends (63% vs. 44%).
>>9510640
I was talking more 1997 1998 my man. The first one really. I didn't pay much attention after that.
>>9510650
Apology accepted.