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I have a similar problem with a number of my friends. Almost none of them enjoy reading, or actively engage in it. In high school most all of them cheated on those book tests they have you take to make sure you're reading. One guy in particular always seems to stand out. He never made it past page four in 1984, shame, great book.
Anyway, the thing they always say is something along the lines of thinking it takes too long and they have to invest a bunch of time into it (can't just sit around for a couple of hours like a movie). I always tell them it's not like you have to read 200 pages in one sitting. Go at your own pace, maybe one day you'll read only two or three pages, somedays maybe ten, maybe one day you'll just fucking wonder if Pip is going to get with Estella at the end and read the last two hundred pages in one sitting.
So whatever. You can at least remind them of that. That it's not necessarily the time consumer they may think it is. May influence them some.
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