I learned to read at 2 1/2, and never stopped. I love intelligent books, but I also have fun with not-so-great too. Not every one of these books is thought-provoking. Not every one is life-changing. They don't even all have great plots. But all of them are fun to read, and they are all *well-written*. There's nothing in this world I dislike more than a book whose writer cannot write well. I would rather read a book with a horrible plot but descriptive and well-thought words, than one with a good plot that reads like it was written by a fourth-grader.

I think everyone needs to read more. Even me.