Fiction

The NY Times had an article recently with some stats from the National Endowment for the Arts saying that fiction reading is increasing for adults. In 2002 the % of adults in the US reading literature was 46.7, in 2008 it was 50.2. 1982 was kind of a high watermark with 56.9.

I'm kind of surprised it's that high. I know a few people who haven't read any fiction since school, where they were forced to. My guess is these are the basic reasons why:

It's Boring.
People aren't really like that.
They don't write simply or clearly.
Don't like being lectured to.
Books are too long and there's too much other stuff to do.