I found that books require me a certain amount to read before they let me sink my teeth into them. I always feel unnatural when I start reading any book. Even I felt it when I read beloved “The Catcher in The Rye”. It took around thirty pages to find myself interested in the book.

Many readers explain “this is because you don’t get used to a book yet, that’s why you take time, to find ‘the rhythm of a book’.” They will stare at you with confident and continue “When you find it a book will start telling itself; you don’t even have to feel you are reading”. I don’t agree to that idea, frankly. I understand that part “a book start telling”. I feel sometimes when I encounter a really good book, but not all of them do it.

In my opinion—just in my opinion—a book choose people to be read. They test me with their beginning part, around 30 pages or so, decide if they permit me to read them or not. We think that we read books, but if you see “reading” a bit from the view point of books. You may hear them saying “I won’t let you read me, you smart-aleck” or “Dear, please open me right away.”

Occasionally, I try to read “The great Gatsby” by Fitzgerald. Every time I fail to do, though. I even can’t read “Harry Potter”. One time I told this to my friend and he said “Why on earth does a grown-up like you have to read Harry Potter? Go to a pawnshop.” Any pawnshop wouldn’t buy a book like Harry Potter, I told him. Anyway, the first I thought he was right, but after a minute I sensed the book was yelling at me. I heard “You aren’t a grown-up or anything. Probably you are, physically. You just lost a sense of fantasy. You don’t need me. Go to a pawnshop to buy Hemingway.” Of course I didn’t replay with “No pawn shop has Hemingway in Japan.” But I thought about the meaning of that invisible voice which I might make up myself.

Do you have a book that you cannot read? If so ask it why.