I fully blame schools for killing people's interest in reading for fun. They force you to analyse it until it's not fun anymore, then tell you that your interpretation of the story is wrong so you feel stupid for even trying to identify with the themes. Teachers even yell at kids for reading ahead! Smh how exactly is that supposed to inspire good reading habits??
How about when they'd force you in middle school to read an entire book in a week, every week, and write a goddamn summary of every chapter?????? And so you'd scramble to pick a book in the library, and god help you if you accidentally picked a boring one, and then you couldn't even speed read it bc you had to write the main points of each chapter and ughhhhh. This is coming from someone who has read books in a day before. School destroyed my love of learning
It depended on the teacher for me honestly. The times when the teacher chose a couple of students to read and act as a character while reading was fun. As someone with ADHD, I especially need something that will keep me interested when I'm given a task that requires me to read a whole book.
@@raisyrosye7656 It is not totally as bad as I made it sound... because although I shut down before I can get near anything remotely academic, I looove to get into fandoms and research the lore of stuff that I watch, and that's almost studying, isn't it? Haha. And like you, fanfic has been my main source of literature since I first started using the internet. I'd have to say it's fanfic that taught me how to write, even.
Totally agree with you on The Rainbow Fish! I admittedly didn't think of the whole "they only like him because he's giving away something valuable", but I hated the book because the fish just STRAIGHT UP MUTILATES himself to get the others to like him! those other fish were literally asking him to rip out parts of his body and yet he was treated like the bad guy for refusing! I get the intended message behind it, but I think it was very poorly thought out.
The correct outcome for that book is the fish gives all his scales away then nobody cares for him any more because they were only in it for what they could get from him.
Not only is Dr. Seuss the goat, but many of his books where literally designed to take real world problems and simplify them so a baby could understand. Take the Butter Battle book, its whole story and designed was hinting at the Cold War and how just trying to one up someone else may lead to others getting hurt. Dr. Seuss can solve world hunger by teaching it to little kids.
Surprised he didn’t talk about a bad case of stripes, that book SCARRED me for life. There’s just something so horrifying about being forced in 3rd grade to read about some girl turning into a literal bedroom
I know. I remember I had run away from my 2nd grade classroom because my teacher told me that I had to be in a different class after reading only 11 pages of the book while crying I couldn’t stop crying. It has been 6 years and this book stills scares me till this day. Edit: I just feel like the author should’ve been a avant-garde artist instead honestly. :P
in the rainbow fish, I'm pretty sure all the other fish are psychopaths. they're literally asking to for rainbow to rip his skin off and give it to them. rainbow is the only sane fish in that ocean. if he gave away his scales, he would be dead because the scales are like the skin of a fish.
The best children's book with a lesson is The Giving Tree. I remember reading it as a kid and being confused, it was really the first melancholic experience I've ever had. It teaches kids that yeah, it's nice to share, but don't give everything away. It starts with an apple, but if left unchecked, it ends with your life.
2:30 Of Mice and Men. I remember having a writing assignment in which I had to write an alternate ending for the book. I went with what if Lennie didn't get killed and got away never to be seen again since he realized just enough that he really messed up that he can't go back ever, and George just never caught up to him. Cut to years later in another town and George is now an owner of a farm and one to the animals he specializes in is rabbits. Lennie is passing through town as a vagabond, barely recognizable. They pass each other on the street, but for a second they thought recognized each other, turn around and realize it was who they thought they were, looking each other in the eye. Fin. Yeah, rewriting a classic is quite the task and rarely is going to be better than the original.
I did something similar, but lennie turned into a zombie and infected everyone on the farm. (I wanted to make the ending just a little bit different than what happened.)
I genuinely feel bad for people who don’t find reading fun because since I’ve always had maladaptive day dreaming it made it like I was seeing a movie in my head
One of the most underrated Children Books of all time that I have read every time I entered the library is “Big Nate”. Honestly some of the funniest shit I’ve ever read were from those books and they even got a “Consistent Storyline” with some of the most interesting and enjoyable stories and characters ever. 10/10 go read.
I think the one time I enjoyed an assigned book (so far, at least) was The Outsiders. I remember that (especially on the day we saw the movie) almost everyone in our grade was simping for someone lol. Also read Animal Farm!
@@limelikeicedtea5883 it's not based I just hate these view farming comment traps, it's worse than when youtubers ask for comments about a random subject even tho they will never actually check them.
Childhood was a different beast entirely. You weren't judged by your looks, intellect, athletic abilities or wealth. You were only judged by whether or not you owned the huge Guinness Book of World Records from that year. That was what separated the fetuses from men.
God childhood books were a vibe. I literally hoarded Geronimo Stilton and Thea Stilton books, gave it away to my little cousin and he loves them! There was this never ending series of Rainbow Magic too and I remember searching my school library every week to search for the next part. Goosebumps, Glitter Girls, even Ripley's believe it or not. At this point reading these again will restore my happiness 😭😭
Honestly, the Animorphs series is surprisingly good, with likeable characters, a good concept, one of the most intimidating threats in literature history, and to top it off, really good worldbuilding and LORE. Edit: Actually, the Yeerks are the overarching threat of the series. The kids who can turn into animals are the protagonists. (warning, summary of Yeerks below) The Yeerks are a race of grey, sluglike aliens that, despite their frankly hilarious forms, are one of the most dangerous species in the galaxy, infamous for conquering planets and adding them into their growing empire. Now, you might be thinking, "how?". Well, it's simple. They CONTROL THE BODIES OF THEIR UNFORTUNATE VICTIMS. Okay, the way it works is that they enter your body through the ear, make their way up to the brain, and then flatten themselves against it, squeezing into every last crevice. This gives them full access to their bodies and memories, leaving the victim trapped in their own mind, forced to watch helplessly as the Yeerks impersonate them perfectly, using their own memories as examples. Anyone can secretly be Yeerk-infested, and as a result, the invasion is happening without anyone knowing. This is why they are so dangerous.
You forgot the part where since the kids regenerate wounds, the author basically brutalized the kids. They get there arms and legs ripped off its fucking intense.
7:51 also not only is the message of the rainbow fish bad, but aren't scales literally part of a fish's body? Like, even just removing scales of fish are considered animal cruelty but it just adds to my point, not only are they just friends with rainbow fish for his scales, the rainbow fish is basically killing himself just to make his friends happy.
Can’t believe you mentioned Bone comic series. In middle school, I used to read them during lunch in the library. My favorite comic series to this day as a 26 year-old. I bought the entire series a couple years ago. Always lend it out to others or recommend it! :)
Y’all remember this book that was about a girl that had many sicknesses like the girl turned into colours, a house, and flags. This book legit scared me this was an audio book that my teacher played in kindergarten I got so scared
Man, not reading Animorphs makes you missed a lot of interesting moral debates and of course child soldiers committing war crimes too. The book that you showed that have the girl morph into a bat had the Animorphs using chemical warfare, and it is a pretty tame one in their war crimes list. 39 clues is a good one too, the mystery really hook you in, while you can also learn some cool history facts along the way
I read a couple of them many many years ago, and I don’t remember anything. Other than the fact that they can turn into animals and one very detailed scene of someone flying as a Peragin falcon
Animorphs is probably the book series that gets fucked over hardest by just having consistently weird AF book covers. Jesus those were nightmare fuel as a child.
As an artist reading books is probably one of the best ways to tell how imaginative your art is and then based on the genre you can you figure out what your "Visual Library" is lacking and then add to it. 10/10 if your an artist read books of various genres and settings
This video reminded me of this one book I HATED when I was little called "A Bad Case of Stripes" The whole plot was that some girl didnt wanna eat lima beans around others because it was embarrassing or somethin, so as punishment, the universe not only gives her stripes on her whole body, but also turns her into her ROOM. LIKE HER WHOLE ROOM WAS HER, BED WAS HER MOUTH OR SOME SHIT, IT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME. She also turned into a gumball machine if I remembered correctly?? We read it in like second grade so they mustve WANTED us to freak the fuck out
Percy Jackson, The Boxcar Children, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Dork Diaries were the series I read as a kid. Love them. I recently read the whole Percy Jackson series cuz I never finished it and it was great.
Both Percy Jackson series are incredible except for Blood of Olympus, I was so obsessed with them as a kid I self-diagnosed as having ADHD and being a demigod just because I had green eyes and couldn't sit still lmao
Just finished trials of Apollo (comes after the Heroes Of Olympus, and Heroes of Olympus comes after the original series) and a nigga like me almost shed a tear a few times
One of the must funniest vids from you in a while. The rainbow fish and dr suess segments had me guffawing (Also, dr suess's "There's a Wocket in my Pocket" flows and sounds EXACTLY like that one Migos song, its insane)
I remember absolutely loving the Geronimo Stilton books, from the spin-offs and the kingdom of Fantasy, those were my stepping stones into my love for reading. I remember going to the mall and begging my mom every time to go to the bookstore to get a new Geronimo Stilton book, shit was damn good back then and now that I gave it away to a local library, I hope kids could also get the Geronimo Stilton experience I had as a kid.
Omg when u said kingdom of fantasy it brought back so many memories, especially from that one giant ass book I used to flex called the phoenix of flames or smt
@@hyperdonalpha shiiit, the phoenix of destiny? Yeah, I had that too, and it being a massive flex is definitely right. Shit looked like the paper was made of gold on the outside, and could've fooled me. I remember it being my most prized possession I ever had as a kid
Recently got back to reading novels with Stephen King, but MAN all these stories are so good, I remember REALLY liking Boosebumps as a kid and that sparked the interest of horror in me. I also collected the Dork Diaries books as well. Man there was so many bangers along with the underrated gem that is BABYMOUSE
I LOVE the 1973 version of Charlotte's Web. Charlotte's death makes me cry everytime. Honestly, the childhood book series I remember most fondly is Geronimo Stilton. I read almost every book I could find in my local library, and I even owned a few. I definitely need to get back into the series, it's really cool.
Books I remember fondly are Chika Chika Boom Boom, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Geronimo Stilton, Big Nate, Dear Dumb Diary, the interactive Goosebumps books, and another one whose name I forgot but it frightened me in a good way. It was about a boy who sailed away from his problematic home & arrived at an island full of monsters that look like they're made of suits. He gets along with them at first until things become creepier, and ends up sailing back home. It had a film which I also liked.
@@spaghetto9836 I know which book you're talking about! It's called Where The Wild Things Are. Also, I'm a fan of Big Nate too. Haven't read any of the books in quite some time, so I'll need to catch up on that as well.
I like the Animorphs series. (Though the Megamorphs and Alternamorphs book sets not so much). I don't like how they make the characters cliche, has stereotypes, as well as unoriginal puns, but the series was surprisingly deep and dark at some points. It goes over topics of genocide, self-sacrifice, torture, brief existentialism, nature vs. nurture, societal conformity, herd mentality, death, mercy killing, abandonment, executions, depression, and the horrors of war. It has some deep points and I wish that they didn't make a very bad tv series of it as well as make it look like some sort of cheap, corny series with cringy book covers that kind of downplays what the book is really about. I think that if they did a little bit of a better job on writing the books (make them longer as well as keep better consistency.) and not rush the process just to reach their book deadline, it could've been way better...
Bro, Roald Dahl was sooo good. The Witches, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The BFG, etc. I think my favorite story may have been The Magic Finger. High key terrifying, but really cool at the same time.
Roald Dahl is an AMAZING author for kids and adults, and he had a fascinating life. If you haven’t read his autobiographies you’re missing out. He was in a car accident when he was a kid and almost got his nose entirely cut off.
You know how you said you loved the foot book? Well, it has a disturbing backstory… According to many websites and rumours, the book is haunted. I think the backstory was Dr. Seuss’s wife died and he made the book somewhat after she died. One of the foot books sold at a little house with a mom, dad, and their daughter. There were paranormal experiences such as the blood splatter. Eventually they moved out and the book is in a museum to this day.
Honestly I’m so lucky that I read long ass series like Warriors and Harry Potter as a kid, because even though they suck looking back, reading them made me realize that not all books are boring garbage that you have to overanalyze to “enjoy”. Series like Mistborn are so fun to read and have genuinely amazing stories but because of how boring school is nobody actually wants to try books out
@antjbiotics Wouldn't say it sucks, but it's not mind blowing either, and some stuff aged a little poorly, like... Cho Chang's name. Also, Harry Potter is just basically Groosham Grange meeets The Worst Witch. Not that it's a bad thing, I love Harry Potter. But yeah, the books weren't what I would call works of art.
@antjbiotics I mean, I guess in terms of actual writing it’s just mid, but the fact that JK Rowling is such a fucked up person on top of the fact that HP isn’t an amazing or even a very good series makes me like it way less
I would like to shout out a few of my childhood favorites that I never see any discussion of. First, the Puppy in my Pocket picture books, based off the toys and they came with them. They were about a bunch puppies just doing stuff like celebrating holidays or having a fashion show. Also Skippy John Jones, I actually dressed as Skip John Jones for Halloween one year and still have part of the costume about a decade later. Another one is Dear Dumb Diary, which was pretty similar to Diary of a Wimpy Kid, but I actually liked it more, mostly because I read it first.
I think some teachers forced many of us to dislike reading because they can be highly biased and say that your interpretations of the story are wrong, even if it's just your personal opinion, and they don't agree with you. For me, I started loving reading again once I bought and read my own books and had a child to read to.
My favorite books used to be the Miss Nelson books! The ones where that teacher notices her class misbehaving, and she decides to disguise herself as Hugh Neutron’s aunt (actually a witch) to punish her class like it’s a military school. Those books were awesome!
I read that book in 3rd grade..idk why but it was so scary i couldnt show up to math class for like a week because the teacher looked like the one in the book LMAO
I swear, Dr. Suess was making bars in his books. But the sad thing is, he was a horrible person. I also saw someone rap There's a Wocket in my Pocket over the beat of Walk it like I talk it. And it was FIRE!
@@nightly145 basically he was cheating on his dying wife who fell ill with cancer then when she died he married the woman he was cheating with 💀 and other stuff
The I survived books are my favorite disaster books and i mainly track weather (im 18 and not on college yet) and i have a weather radio, all severe weather days are scaring and exciting
I remember reading action novels like Percy Jackson or Artemis Fowl. I remember reading this one book called Maximum Ride, where a bunch of bird kids flew around looking for their deadbeat dad.
As a fiction novel writer, I understand the problem with reading books lol. Books aren’t the greatest source of entertainment when you just want to turn your brain off. However, I would recommend some fictional books for when you want to ignore the real world for a little bit. Xenofiction is the best for that, in my opinion, like Warriors or Watership Down.
Lol I've found that "bookworms" or people like me who actually enjoy reading actually can turn our brain of pretty easily and almost instantly when we start reading shutting off the world and immersing myself in a book is easier than movies and comics sometimes.
Unless Ive got something on my mind that I don’t want to think about, yeah. I don’t actually imagine what happens very much either, it’s strings of words that make sense.
It's what you train yourself to enjoy early on. If your parents encouraged you to read early on in life, and you genuinely enjoy it, you'll associate reading with good times, and would therefore do it more often. However, if all of your entertainment is visual, trying to imagine and entertain yourself without visuals, like comic books and movies, would be tasking, as you've never done it before a lot. That's why I detest that the first thing parents do to try to pacify or entertain their kids is to put a tablet in front of them. You're training them to half their attention span from the get-go.
Me and my family were so broke in the process of moving, i screen recorded this video form start to end. we had no wifi, and especially no cellular data..i had this stored in imovie for soooo long. each time i watched you made me laugh. good luck on your journey
Honestly I've noticed with a lot of people that being forced to read books you're not interested in for hours a day every day for years as a kid can really make people not want to read books as an adult.
I never thought I'd become that person. I never understood 'I don't like to read' mentality. College changed that for me. I don't dislike books in general but the passion for them was killed. I owned a lot of books before college but while in college I packed most of them away and didn't read recreationally. The only books I read now are online romance novels. I think at one point the sound of page turning triggered me. I now have an unhealthy hatred for glossy paged books. Why are most textbooks made that way especially when we sit under terrible florescent lights.
A big children’s author up here in Canada is Robert Munsch, who I just found out was born in Pittsburgh. But his books were my childhood. We read them all the time in elementary school Also I demand a full version of the Red fish, Blue fish rap
I remember in elementary school where we would fight over the dork diaries books and those rainbow magic fairy books. I wish I could go back to those times, I got so much enjoyment from reading those books.
I was obsessed with those rainbow magic fairies when I was like 7-8 years old. Even made a fairy OC called the “internet fairy” or something and made lore for it. Can’t remember the details but man you unlocked a whole gigabyte of memories by mentioning that
The Magic Treehouse series was my favorite. It wasn’t too long (maybe for me). I did read all the Harry Potter books by the end of 5th grade. I was an high level reader to the point where in junior high and high school, I was reading young adult fiction and James Patterson’s Alex Cross series.
This guy isn’t just comedic, he recalled memories that were from your long a-while-ago childhood, bringing nostalgia that couldn’t been brought out due to how long ago it was because our current world has not been a very good place lately.
I have never read a single Animorph book. I did however pick up pretty much every one I ever saw and flipped through it real fast to watch the kid transform into whatever animal
Only cool thing about getting old is watching content that looks back at things we grew up on and our perspectives of it now lol… ahhh lol so funny lol thank you.
The last book I read in school that I actually liked was during my Senior year, called “The Road,” excellent if you’re into the post-apocalyptic genre. It was a shame I never got to finish it.
4:37 my mom used to work in a library during the late 90s during the time when animorphs was popular and the kids there would start to get them. and she even seen the tv show based on them.
No chance you're seeing this 24 hours later, but I froze when you mentioned the 39 clues. I've read all of them they were pretty cruel and engaging. And even after like 37 books the finale was pretty decent. It's still my favourite book series and I wanna say it's because I haven't read any books in a while but I was a serial reader years after I finished them and nothing tops. Also never seen them mentioned on Earth ever.
I don't remember shit about the books, but I remember going to the store and every single copy in the store had the cards stolen out of the front page lmao
I found the first book in the library in 5th grade and begged to have the whole series for my birthday (some I checked out from the library and the others were bought as a gift). Still my absolute favorite series and proudly displayed on my shelf. I’m glad there are still fans out there !!!
I miss being a kid. It was cool when teachers knew I liked to read, they would find me good books they thought I would enjoy. There was this dude that just called himself Avi that lots of teachers recommend me books by. He was a really good author.
All I remember is that in the later books the interpol was chasing after them and that they started working with their cousins that were trying to kill them. I think the Genius Files had a similar premise if anyone has read that
I spent all of my childhood reading the warrior cats books. My mom was always confused that I kept getting them bc she kept saying "surely they're done, surely there isn't MORE of those wierd cat books" They're literally still making them, there's over a hundred now I think
the 1st saga of 6 books was rlly great, I didn't even liked reading back then but I enjoyed it a lot. After I read the 7th one I was pretty disappointed and felt they just milked a finished story, never read the 8th one+. But shit dude over 100....WHY DO PPL STILL BUY EM
Ah yes. Animorphs. The series where a bunch of kids fight body snatchers and contemplate the war crimes they're forced to commit by the end of the series. I used to hide those books from my mom because I was worried she'd find out how violent they really are.
@Lonely Underscore the kids get their limbs torn off on a regular basis but it doesn't break Scholastic's rules because when they morph back to human form their wounds heal, so technically no children get harmed physically. If you want a really dark kid's series without a happily ever after, go for it. Pretty well written, from what I remember
@Lonely Underscore 🤣 they're actually pretty good right now but I definitely do not think they were age appropriate for middle schoolers at least some of the ones dealing with heavier issues.
The Boxcar Children is actually a very fascinating and loveable adventure of children without parental supervision (like by an adult) and on the road until they start a life living in an abandoned boxcar where they go through all sorts of shenanigans and an emotional journey. Animorphs is understandably something all ppl should avoid at all costs, it's a literary shit-wad. Also, ur take on Rainbow Fish is unbelievably hilarious, I never thought of it that way (i also have a memory of eating Green Eggs and Ham, right after we learned that he died).
Animorphs is something I'm glad I avoided (I was also confused about what the hell was going on) because due to the description given by everyone it seems a bit too gory or weird for my taste.
It wz apparently brutal since going along wit there morphic ability, they can heal which I guess gave room for the authors to try sum deep crazy shyt for a kids book lol
