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[tephra]

So I'm reading the reviews for A Good Offense (the sequel to The Best Defense) and I find this:

"...im not getting the whole purple haze thing, it flew right over my head."

For some reason that made me snicker.

Frankly, the reviews joisbishmyoga gets for these stories often make me depressed. Apparently people are reading and yet not reading these days. It's like they forget things that they read just a few sentences ago. Their comprehension seems spotty at best, and ask them to remember something from a previous chapter? Not going to happen apparently.

Now I know I have a somewhat odd and persistent memory but I can't believe that people can really forget something they read just a few minutes ago. My ability to remember stuff I read years ago (decades in some cases) can't be that bizarre, and remembering something from a month ago should be really simple and common, right?

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[joisbishmyoga.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what the teaching methods for reading ever were. I've heard about this "phonics" stuff in recent years, but I had no need to pay attention in class during reading units, so I didn't. I can't remember not being able to read.

I've also gotten pictures, but more often I fall into a reading trance where the information just flows in without any real need for images or sounds, because the story data is coming too fast. I think. It's a very strange effect and I have trouble noticing it.