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4 stars: meh, but a nice friend recommended it so much that I can't rate it 2

Catching Fire was so damn good (def my fav of the trilogy). The clock arena was super creative and a really clever way to spice things up from the first book.

All 3 books were good, but Catching Fire was by far the one I enjoyed the most.

David Brin is one of my absolute favorite hard Sci fi writerd!

5 excellent

4-very good

3-mid

2-shit

1-worse shit

-10-The most worst shit ive ever seen

-1- i wanna die

5- all time faves, rarely used

4- liked it, gr8 read

3- okay, meh

2- dislike, kinda feels like time wasted

1- hate, delete this book from existence pls

My teen calls it "staring at dead trees and hallucinating". He can't visualize books in his head though. I'm the opposite, I've always loved reading though now I listen to audiobooks more because I can consume them at work.

Surprisingly common? I’m a third grade teacher and have never heard of this happening. Teachers do extensive training to identify reading levels and then you are supposed to have kids read slightly above their level if possible unless instructing something specific (like sentence structure or non fiction text elements). The only time a library would do this is if a student wants to read something that may be too mature. Then the teacher or librarian will probably double check with a parent or talk to the student about it. We do use various leveled systems so that kids can find ‘just right’ books on their own but you are never supposed to discourage a child from wanting to read something above grade level.

You not caring what or who I am is in part the problem.

Indigenous folks don’t teach as the anglo do. Indigenous folks don’t have the same values as the anglo do.

From zero to until my child noticed the pattern of a man and a woman or a woman and a woman or a man and a man and inquired of me what this was or wasn’t it would be a subject I would not be priming my child with any ways.

But let’s take k-5 (I had barley turned 10 in fifth grade, and had not even had a moon yet) Unless my child asked me about relationships of any kind. I would not have forcibly taught them for no reason.

How is the oppressed remotely promoting oppression 🤣

I could argue that you being colonized happily is still oppressing indians and in OUR yard to do it.

Appreciate all the comments. Interesting that a lot of you have varying degrees of internal voice. It seems I should be able to turn it up and down with a bit of practice. I guess more than anything, it's a relief that it's normal. If anyone's looking for a new book, my last read was: Flowers for Algernon - highly recommended.

This particular book talks about prostate massage among other things.People that dont want their children seeing that stuff arent crazy or FaSciSt. It has nothing to do with homophobia.
Your being lied to.

I think I feel the same. Badly written books seem to be like a mental nails across a chalk board.

I can't bring myself to give 5 stars. Maybe Shakespeare or something. But that seems too high a bar for mere mortals.

4- top tier

3- pretty good, but had some dull moments

2 -- couldn't finish it

1 -- couldn't even make it through the first few pages.

Again there is no reason for it to be in a public school library. Its not banned, you can buy it.
People desperately trying to keep a book that has instructions on how to suck a cock in schools. Why?
Its weird.

I agree, time won't however. I have a very high comprehension and love reading. Just would like to get the chance to read more

Once in a lonely while, yes, but I've never known many serious readers. I have known a lot of people who spend hours watching reruns of The King of Queens (or some such) while insisting that they just don't have time to read.

Is tmyour internal speed a practised thing, something you make happen, or does it just naturally happen?

Was it the DRA reading level tests or something like that? I remember having to do something similar in first grade.

The hover text still appears on user pages, review pages, edition pages, etc., just not on book pages

If you want some next level shit try Dan Simmons

>Its peer pressure. Monkey see, monkey do

This is absolutely true and key to solving this issue - Parents and the kid's home life are a far bigger influence than their school (is in most cases).

Children learn through imitating those around them, that's how they develop their sense of what is "normal". If there are no books in the house, and the parents don't read themselves, it's almost certain they will grow up reading little to nothing and reading for pleasure will be an activity they won't even consider doing.

So sad :(

There is a whole genre of 'hard' science sci-fi. You might find that to your liking.

Also, check out the Riverworld series by Philip Jose Farmer. Not exactly the sort of thing you describe above, but a gripping story nonetheless.

Literary fiction and a lot of history will give that feeling. You get a bit used to it and then dive in deeper and deeper until you hit Gödel, Escher, Bach. GEB is irrevocable so beware.

For some reason "AR" is ringing a bell in my head, but I can't remember what it stood for. [Searches] Accelerated Reader?

Reading was the skill that came easiest to me. This unfortunately ended badly. Because in the 4th grade I was testing for a 9th grade reading level. That meant I wasn't allowed to use any books below that grade level for my assigned books. Since the elementary school was a little short on books that advanced, I got stuck with dreck like The Yearling. Do you have any idea how boring The Yearling is for a nine year old?

The Pathfinder series by Orson Scott Card. I'm halfway through the second book and the revelations are making my head spin!