Posted: August 12, 2008
Win Stalefish and Emerica Shoes!
Our good friend Sean Mortimer just released a new book about skateboarding called Stalefish, and to celebrate, we're giving away three copies along with some free Emerica shoes!
How is professional skateboarding different from, say, professional
golfing? More scabs, for one. And is skateboarding actually a sport? In Stalefish, veteran journalist and former sponsored skater Mortimer interviews Steve Alba, Bob Burnquist Jim Fitzpatrick, Tommy Guerrero, Dave Hackett, Kevin Harris, Chris Haslam, Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Rodney Mullen, Steve Olson, Stacy Peralta, Daewon Song, Jamie Thomas and Mike Vallely in search of answers, and to discover what drove them and millions of other disenfranchised youth to obsess over empty pools, sewer ditches and handrails. This book may not settle the sport vs. subculture vs. cult debate, but with stories of skate-induced ulcers, skatepark torture, ramp arson, trespassing, the birth of punk and more, it captures how skateboarding can derail your life in a beautiful way.
Sean Mortimer was a sponsored skateboarder in the late ’80s. He is the former editor of SkateBoarder magazine and the author of HAWK Occupation: Skateboarder with Tony Hawk and The Mutt: How to Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself with Rodney Mullen.
For a chance to win, just explain in 25 words or less in the comments below why you love to read. First place wins one free pair of Emerica shoes of their choice and one copy of Stalefish signed by Tony Hawk, Dave Hackett, Kevin Harris, Lance Mountain, Rodney Mullen and Mike Vallely. Second and third place still get shoes and a book, just no autographs. Read the Official Rules.
(263) responses to: Win Stalefish and Emerica Shoes!
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Because it's fun to get into a good book and you can never stop I love when that happens.
i like to read because it gives you a sexual eruption. draws you into the zone. especially porn, man do i love porn.
Reading never fails in my life. Then there is always a point to reading, there never isn't. I dont hesitate to pick up a book.
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reading lasts longer so read a skateboarding book is like watching a 15 hour skatevideo. which would pump me up.
I love reading because it relaxs your mind and makes you think out of the ordinary
because i like looking at the pictures
I like to read because, its fun when you get into a book you really like. When you get into a book you like you can read for hours, and just be so intrested about the stuff you are reading. Thats why I enjoy reading.
i like to read becuase i want to win this contest
Because it takes you to a state of happiness like skateboarding does and always will
Because it's fun and it makes me look smart.
Reading books will take you places. I've been to prison in Algiers, I've been stuck on a life-raft in the middle of the Indian Ocean, and I've held a conversation with a trippy caterpillar, all in the comfort of my home.
Lucas
Age: 15
I don't like to read normally, but these kinds of books get me hyped to read them.
I love to read because reading is like watching a movie only better because you see it exactly the way you want.
reading is rad because there are tons of stories and things you could here about that you need to read to find out. READING4LIFE
and just in case you guys arnt feeling my reason i really want to get this book it looks soooo sick so where can i get a copy??!!
reading is a way of life, even if its not a book its a "NO SKATEBOARDING" sign, so bottom line is . . . . . . JUST LOVE BEING EMERICAN
O hey and anderew, dude your new shoes are so sick i just got the black ones.
I enjoy reading because it's like one big trip, but yet it's not. GO READING!!!!!!!!
Reading is a lot more rewarding than watching a movie or tv show. You can get way more involved with a book.
reading in a way is a way to test your imagination, expand your vocabulary, and become better friends with yourself.
Reading is like someones feelings and beliefs are being released into my mind so I can feel as they do.
I love to read because it takes you on a mental voyage through words.
Reading is awesome if you can find something that you can relate too and put yourself in. Imagination is the key.
Readings awesome cause by expalaining why you like it you can win a free pair of shoes and stalefish. cause its good.
reading makes me fall asleep faster.
then i have awsome nightmares.
Reading takes my mind off all the bad shit and lets me escape into my own world and do whatever the fuck i want.
i only like to read if its a good book
but i get lost in them if they are =]
i also love shoes!
Reading is good because it allows you to use your imagination, which rules, and gives you something to do on rainy days.
i dont know how to read, but the pictures are always nice
i can't afford books, but if i win this then i can read.
Because its rad to be smart.
readin can make u think and follow different ways. this can bring you to know who you are. it can thicken your imagination
I love to read because otherwise I wouldn't know what's going on with Emerica's team and quality footwear.
i don't like to read, but i love to learn about skateboarding and its history, and i love emerica shoes so i want to win.
i love to read because it is awsome and it makes my pepe excited i also like to read cause i like to learn stuff
I've found that reading is one of the primary functions of human beings that seperates us from the animals.
I enjoy to read because gives many people knowledge. Reading about skateboarding can get you into the deeper roots of skating, and why it's what it is.
oscar
age:16
I love to read because its a good way to keep me entertained when i got nothing else to do, like when im not skating
i love reading because reading loves me
right now i hate that 25 word rule cause it wont even let me express myself. but...
i enjoy reading because instead of expressing myself i can listen to others peoples thoughts. its almost like guidance, and finding your self.
even if in such murderous shame. it frees your mind and at the same time gives you knowledge. its better than doing some ignorant crap you see everyday.
right now i hate that 25 word rule cause it wont even let me express myself. but...
i enjoy reading because instead of expressing myself i can listen to others peoples thoughts. its almost like guidance, and finding your self.
even if in such murderous shame. it frees your mind and at the same time gives you knowledge. its better than doing some ignorant crap you see everyday.I enjoy to read because gives many people knowledge. Reading about skateboarding can get you into the deeper roots of skating, and why it's what it is.
kevin colon
age:14
Cody Dawson
age:16
reading is like skateboarding, you can learn new things and it is never boring
expands the mind, imagine the possibilities.
I love reading because it matures and educates my mind. When I read great stories my passion strengthens and it helps settle my retrospective life.
I enjoy reading because it gives me the feeling of superiority. Reading gives me my freedom and expression and frees me of other opinions.
Wow a question I didn't expect to be asked on a skate website. None the less to win something.
Reading: Words on a page that can change the way you think about life, can completely change your mind set of who you are and what you believe.
I dont like reading.
i love it. NOT. but i like it cause it "widens the horizens, opens new paths and opens new doors (windows =)
It's all about imagination and what your mind can create inside you, just watching a line of words. That's why reading is great.
i enjoy reading because you can use you're imagination, as well as learn new things, and KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!
reading is great cause its such an easy and available form of learning and inquiring new knowledge. i enjoy reading most about earth and culture.
the culture and all the knowledge u fill in ur brain and reading about new stuff is always intreging
I can't read alot beacuse I always get too distracted and then go skate with da homies .....
I love reading, because I can relax and learn some crap.
I like reading because you can learn new stuff.I read lot's of skateboarding book's.Reading is cool!I enjoy reading skateboarding book's.Peace!
Becuase readingss tighttt. not really. but if its something you love to do than im down to read and skate at the same time.
and i need new shoes. (:
Reading books is a joke. Might as well stop skateboarding if your going to read or else how are you supposed to get better at skating when you spend your time reading all day. Exactly, point taken. Later.
Reading is one of the most stimulating experiences. It helps enhance my imagination as well as broadening my interests and giving myself something productive to do. Without reading, I would be a simple-minded fool who deserves nothing else in life but to die!
...Or am I just trying to win the contest? You decide.
Reading has a lot to do with what I am trying to become in life - translator of English and Slovene. My 4th and last year of study is almost here!
i like to read cause the hot asian chicks like dudes who are smart but im not really
Chris
Age: 16
I like to read because Emerica told me i like to read.
i read to hammer through smart bitches.
Getting into a good story is like escaping from reality. Kinda like how when you're super into landing a trick, you forget about everything else.
This looks sweet.
I love to read because im better at it than shredding
because it's educational
AND knowledge is power
Reading will open your mind to things you never thought of before. It may strike an interest that you never knew you had. Simply READ!
Hunter: age: 17
man, fuck reading
Excites and interests me in a weird manner. Feelings changes from the very first page to the last. Cause, you wont know unless you read.
Age: 23
reading expands my knowledge, and allows me to think about or imagine with my own ideas rather than someone else's like TV
i like to read books that excite me. especially this book, it might give me a new insight about skateboardig and how it started.
I love to read because im better at it than i am at shredding ya dig?
AGE: 18
I like to read because you find out new things and when you read about something you love like skateboarding you enjoy it more you get in to the book allot easier. When if was younger I didn’t like reading I just thought it was boring but know I fined it interesting.
well i just got my first book that ive ever gottin 2 weeks ago (im 12 i should have red a book before this) but im realy getting into reading now and its very interesting, i was looking for stalefish in a bookstore it was going 2 be my first book but they didn't have it so i got "metallica frayed ends of metal" and i think it whould be good for me 2 read a little a more than i do
I've loved to read since I first learned how!
love to read because thru reading I learn but also get to go on adventures that I would never in real life- Let the imagination flow
Knowledge is more powerful than any nuclear bomb, oil tycoon, or politician (=).
Reading gives me something to do when I injure myself skating, and the whole knowledge thing is a nice little bonus.
I like to read because it gives me a chance to escape reality, and to use my imagination.
Reading takes me places I'll never go to!
Airun, sixteen
I agree that this 25 word objective is quite the challenge.
Well, I love to read because.....looking at pages of potential learnings, and without the moments of thought spent in every one, the end feeling would be quite daunting. (this is the end) but i'm not, because I just put my heart and mind into this book.
I like to read because it is the time when you use your imagination the most. When you watch a movie its right in front of you so you know what everything looks like. When you read you get to imagine everything; what the people look like, like that bitch in the 5th harry potter book, the setting, and how it all happens. I like to use my imagination.
It allows me to transcend with my imagination the limits bound by the silver screen.
cus girls think its hott and they like you even more with your fresh reynolds 3s on
reading books...suck but skate mags are good
Reading gives me a chance zone out and forget about everything else and make me feel like im somewhere else.
I can go anywhere I want with books. There are times when I put a book down because I don't want the story to end
Reading takes me away from "my" life and lets me live in someone else's. Tons more exciting and interesting!
"If I could be anything i would be a book, so I could be borned in a factory, be read by people and die in memories" I don't like humans less, but i like reading more...
reading lets me escape my life of quiet desperation
Opens my imagination and expands my knowledge of the world.
i love to use my imagenation
Reading a book brings you into a new world full of knowledge you may never have known before.
fuck! reading.. I just skate magz! messenger. myspace. and the subtitles in some movies :)
Reading puts me in places that I can not be in reality. It expands my mind to new ideas and challenges in life. I love this escape into my own world.
cuz reading is like skateboarding: one can find something underneath the lines that most of people wouldn't even grasp.
The greatest day of my life was when I learned to read in first grade. I'll read ANYTHING! Books, magazines, cereal boxes. If there are words, I will read.
Reading lets me enter worlds and life situations that I would never really be in.
I like reading cuase im better at it than skating, but with this book and shoes i can get better
Reading provides an escape from the mundane; a release...it lets me experience new and exciting people and places
reading lets me go anywhere at anytime and my fears can not stop me.
My brain hurts when im done that a good thing right?
It takes me places.
i like to read because it takes me out to a different atmosphere of just relaxation and imagination, kinda like skateboarding.
cus chicks think its hott and they think your even hotter with your fresh reynolds 3s on, thats why.
I love to read as it is sooo relaxing and a person can learn so much
Reading is like skateboarding, Once you start a good book, you can't stop. Its the same with skating, once you start you can't stop.
Reading can take you places that you've always dreamed of! The imagination is a wonderful thing when you add words into the equasion!
because it takes you places nothing else cant. and with a book like this it teaches you some real info about skateing and its not torture like the stuff you read in school.
I love to read so I can know what kind of cool shoes and items to buy from Emerica. I wouldn't be posting it if I couldn't read.
Anthony Orosz, 13 years old.
I like to read because nowadays watching TV or listening to the Radio heavily involves blond chicks arguing, Barack Obama campaigning, and new Rihanna singles.
once you get into a book you can't stop reading when i get a new book i get mad when i can't read it
Reading is a way of expressing your iner-self....because without reading you couldnt learn half the suff we know because your brain retains that information and can pull you out of reality for that short or long period of time! I know reading helped me out tremendously when I was locked up for a several straight months as a young teen and I loved just reading and getting away briefly from that cinder block cell!
It gets my imagination going.
Reading is a free escape ticket to wherever you wish to go. You can leave your everyday life and problems behind by getting absorbed by a good book.
Reading is great because it is free and you can do it anywhere
I love to read because it lets you become somebody else for a while. It gives me a break from all the bullshit.
it lets me escape from "every Days Life" .
ever since I read the first Harry Potter book I've found relaxation, excitement, and interest in reading. It's like an adventure.
Reading is basically poetry in motion! It gives you a sweet dose of imagination crack.You can just escape and let the good times roll!!!!
(age 17)
reading is waaaayyy better than TV
TV is predictable
you can basically just figure out the whole show before it even ends
there concept on "reality TV" is not even real
books are fantastic because of the wonders you'll get out of just paragraphs and pages
some people will read one book and would want to read the whole series
i love reading because its something people hate on
fuck haters!
it also makes you smart as fuckk!!
favorite books:
animal farm
maniac magee
catcher in the rye:]
and many many others
TV is mind control:D
i dont love to read, but id love to have a copy of stalefish and a pair a new shoes
I love reading because it helps to expand your imgination, plus if you had to read and book why would you read a book about loving what you do best SKATEING
i love to read because it helps me get into a world where i see things the way i want to see them unlike in movies its always someone else prospective
I love to read because it takes me away from the daily stresses of being a stay at home mom of 4 kids...3 teens!
reading is great because it keeps you out of doing drugs and makes poopdick
Reading empowers the mind and explains the worlds mysteries. Reading pushes us to better ourselves.
I love to read because it temporarily transports my mind to another place and lets me get totally engrossed in something outside myself.
Because when I read, I can travel to places I've never been before and do things I never would have done in real life.
I love reading because it keeps me calm when i want to choke the shit out of my older sister being a bitch.
I like to read because it takes you on an advetutue that tv could never take you on
Josh:14
phone:655-6430
reading is the gateway to knowledge and the more i read the smarter i get
I love to read because why the hell not?
I love to read because ir puts me into a relaxing alpha state and tranports me somewhere else!
Because inside the word "READING" is "DIE-GNAR"
Because i can go places i've never been! Imagine things that take me away to lands that can only exist in books. My Aphrodesiac!
I can't go to sleep without reading a good book first.I love books,i have read books since i was 7 years old.I have 245 books in the ''mini library'' in my house.I have read 236 of them.I just love how you get into the book,and it almost feels like reality.What more can i say? I'm a book worm.
Name:Hilmar.
Age:15.
Location:Iceland.
reading is a way into another world a world where you can leave the real world behind and get wrapped in the book
I love to read because it passes the time, and i love the exciting twists and turns in books. Thanks for listening.
I love to read because I love art, and literature is a form of art. Writing is just another way of expressing emotion and making a point. Sean Mortimer is expressing emotions and making points that all skaters can relate to, and at the same time proving that skaters are intelligent.
Joel Stewart
Age: 16
Reading can be anything you want, the unreal real. It paints a picture so detailed that you suddenly zone out and awaken from your imagination.
I love reading because it takes everything bad out of your life and only brings positive. Your imagination and creativity for skateboarding can only grow.
I love reading beacuse it relaxs me and takes me to a whole diffrent world, I become apart of the story itself, and I can be anything or anyone I want to be
name: samuel reguerra
city: Glendale CA
age: 15
reading just puts me away in another place. I need it every day.
cus its the only thing i do when im hurt besides editing, playing music, drink stuff, etc.
I love reading because you learn new stuff thats interesting not boring like math.
I love reading because it taught me how to skate
reading is the second best thing in the world.
Reading make me smart. It save me from sick reality I live in. It give me hope for a better world.
To pass the time on the toilet.
ITS HARD TO FIND AN INTERESTING BOOK BUT WHEN U FIND THE RIGHT BOOK AND GET SUCKED INTO IT AND CANT STOP READING ITS ACTULLY FUN
Because comfort calls to my feet.
Age: 14
I enjoy reading because it enables us to view other's perspectives. Inputting what I've learned reading I can mature and grow. Plus, chicks dig intelligence.
I love to read because reading is the greatest "escapism" from the stresses of everyday life there is!
I love reading beacuse it takes me to a diffrent world, I become apart of the story ,and I can be anything I want
name: samuel reguerra
city: Glendale CA
age: 15
It takes me away and is so relaxing.
reading is what taught me whats the difference between a professinal skateboarder and a skater.that difference is either its love or its money
Age: 14
I enjoy reading because it matures and educates my mind. When I read exhilarating stories my passion strengthens, my perspective anew, my creative mind determined.
(This is my preferred and final entry)
Age: 14
I enjoy reading because it matures and educates my mind. When I read exhilarating stories my passion strengthens, my perspective renews, my imagination becomes neverending.
its relaxing and makes me sleeping so then i sleep good =)
Because you can be anyone and do anything, it helps you understand the lives of others.
its broadens my mind to better my knowledge outside of my everyday chores and activities such as skating and working, reading serves a purpose to me because i ain gonna be a dumbshit .
when im reading i feel like im in a whole another world. it makes you see things in a different perspective. my imagination goes gnar.
im 14
Reading is crucial because you learn how to communicate better with others. Books also teach, entertain, and expand your limitless mind.
if im reading im not skating so reading sucks
because reading enhances your perception.
Books are boring..NOT!...Reading books, magazines, and newspapers, and especially stories on the internet are super interesting...I like reading any and everything i can whether it's the stuff on a cereal box or the brochures at the dentist's office HAHA... Its good for tha brain...I especially like how i read hella skate magazines and i can barely remember wat i read tha next day cause i read sooo much!!!! LOL
AGE: 13
Because when i do it i feel that it is like an escape from all of my worries I get that same feeling from skateboarding.
I love reading, because it makes pooping a lot more fun.
everytime i read it makes me feel like everything around me has changed into the setting of the book,i sometime feel like i literally in the book,when im reading a book i have to finish it,i feel if i don't than i won't be right for days.
I like reading because it's the only way to get real information, plus you can make it as good and exciting as you want. With TV it is was it is ya know.
reading is the best entertainment for me because i learn new things in every book.
I love to read cause its good for the brain and kinda just frees me from all the the stupid shit that happens in everyday life. And when I read I can do anything, I can go to faraway places or read about a fantasy. That's why I love to read.
I love to read cause it frees me from everyday stupid shit. I can do anything and be anyone I want to be when I read. I can explore new places or I could go to a world of fantasy world. And that's why I to read. Peace to the world.
I love to read because it takes you places you don't have to leave home to visit.
I love to read because it is relaxing.
because reading makes you see words more often, therefore, you will be able to spell better.
Reading gives me an opportunity to experience fresh ideas and outlooks on different aspects of life. Its always inspiring, even in the smallest way.
reading is necessary, so since you gotta do it-at least read something that you enjoy. plus it never hurts to learn something new
i love reading cuz it helped me lose my virginity :]
reading transports me to another realm of enjoyment.
I like to read because all of that junk I learn fills up my brain and the knowledge does wonders for my self esteem.
16
reading makes me smarter that's why
I'm not much of a reader but I do love skateboarding and to me it is considered a sport. I just now started college today and I need a book that's good to read for class and when finished I need to write a report on it and by looking at the book, STALEFISH is gonna be good.
i love to read beacause its like your in your own world nobody to tell you what to do except a story to follow i think a story is kinda like skater you could do anything you want to do and the only person stoping u is urself or the sercurity
reading also makes me fell like im living the characters life like im doing something ive never done and reading makes me fell right it feels cool like skateing like if i see a board or book that i like ill probaly skate it or read the book. thats why i like skating. :)
i like reading because its what separates us from the monkeys and rocks
I have two teenage boys and I want to be able to relate to them.
Reading takes me to far away places, to do unusual things with fascinating people, and back safely home again, day after day.
Because no movie can compare to ones imagination while reading!
I read because it reminds that I am not alone in this world. I am not the only reject loser who's fed up with life.
Name: Mitch Stevens
Age: 17
It is educational
Reading is far more entertaining than tv or video games, IMO!
to tell ya the truth, i hate reading, but if i get dragged into it, it might actually turn out to be a good book, and then im hooked till i finish and actually want to finish it. i mean when i started reading the tony hawk auto biography i was hooked till i finished it ,and plus reading gets u a little smarter . hahaha and u learn new stuff!!
It takes me somewhere I have not been before
cuz reading makes my brain warm.
if you are reading a good book sometimes it gets you pumped up to skate. If you're reading and you just cant stop reading because you're so into it and then when you finish it, you don't feel like doing anything other than having a good skate session.
Because after I read the article in transworld skateboarding magazines about Tony Hawk I got back into skating.Thanks Birdman, wait you hate that name.
if it wasnt for reading i would of never knew what this contest was about
I love readiing as a passtime and this will help me learn about the roots of skatboarding
I think that reading is an important way to learn about certain things. If we couldn't read we probably couldn't do alot of other things that would involve reading, like learning in school would be harder.
It relaxes me and allows me to fall asleep.
I love to read because it's relaxing and a good escape!
I don't have any of my worries when I read and I also learn alot.
Reading is a way of expressing yourself. You can read anything you want and it always let's my imagination fly and I feel like i'm a part of the story. Thanks!
Books are food for your brain. They provide the reader with knowledge(sometimes useful).
Michael Chabon and Haruki Murakami routinely offer my head an all you can eat buffet.
Because it makes my eyes all fuzzy and sometimes I pass out.
Cause when everything is all messed up in your life you can just go bury your head in a book and forget about everything.
I love to read fiction because it temporarily takes me into some type of fantasty world where I can relax and forget about my life for a short time. When I am done I feel grounded and able to achieve my own dreams and aspirations.
because it's portable, easy and a lifelong activity.
because you learn
I love to read because it gives me an opportunity to escape reality for a bit and adventure into realms I've never been to before!
It doesn't cost a lot if you live near a library.
A chance to live another life, an adventure, dream, laugh..and cry, escape the day to day and relax with the words through my eyes.
Reading to me is like watching a good movie, I don't want the book to end, it is very relaxing!
Because I am seeking the Truth. Of course as soon as you say something like that people assume you are completely insane and probably have lots of firearms and copies of Catcher in the Rye lying around....
Reading allows me to experience people, places, and situations that I would never otherwise experience and I can enter that world as often as I want simply by opening up a book.
open books lead to open minds. you can be so much more imaginitive with a book than you can a tv.
this is educational
reading opens your mind up
Reading takes me to some other place and time,I get to set back and enjoy the trip. Totally relaxing.
I love to read for adventure. Reading allows me to be transported to another place, another world or another time !
Tv spoon-feeds you the images. With books you have to use your imagination. Reading opens up worlds you'd never get to otherwise!
reading can take you places you might otherwise never get to go..reading is just AWESOME
Because it can help us escape everyday life and it also allows you to create your own world. Reading brings families together starting at birth.
Reading, like skateboarding, gives my imagination room to create what it wants out of what I'm seeing.
Reading takes me away to worlds more interesting than mine.
I love to read because it exposes me to worlds undiscovered and unknown to me.
I love reading because it relaxes my mind and body and helps me escape from my daily life each time I pick up a book.
I love to read because it takes me out of my mundane life into new worlds.
I love to read because it takes me to places I've never been, and adds some adventure to my life.
I love to read.
Lets me escape for a little while
I love to read because reading really does take you to a whole other place in time. It's like a mini-vacation and you don't even have to leave your chair.
I love to read because I can see life through the eyes of others and go to places I've never been before- do things I've never done before.
Reading is transformative, allowing us to try on different roles and to have new experiences that leave a lasting imprint on our thoughts, emotions, and identities.
Reading can transport you to places you have never been and may never see in your lifetime. It enriches your knowledge, your vision and your creativity.
Reading brings the experience of visualization without being there.
Anything is possible in a book.
I love to read because it is an escape where I go to new places, meet new people and learn about things that simply wouldn't be normally a part of my life.
It takes you to a place where you want to go!
Because it's fun to get into a good book and you can never stop I love when that happens.
I love to read because it takes me away from whatever is going on in my life to a totally different place.
Reading transports me to another world, broadens my horizons, and gives me new perspectives to think about.
Reading is the key by which to unlock knowledge and empowerment, that usually does it for me why I read
I love to read because it can take me to places I'll never get to go and allows me to do things that I'll never get to do.
I love to read because I am never alone. I can find people with interesting personalities and revisit them whenever I want. Sometimes I even find out about places or jobs I never knew about or historical tidbits that are much more interesting when woven into a story instead of dry dates and facts.
this would be a great read!
I love to read because it is a way to escape the pressures of every day life. Books can take you anywhere!
I love to read because it transports me to another place, helps me learn about other cultures and is just enjoyable
I love to read. You can learn a lot from reading and to me it's really relaxing to sit in a comfy chair and read something.
I love to learn.
I love to read because reading makes me use my imagination, unlike a movie. It "takes me away" Lol...
I love to read because it's my escape when the stress in the real world gets to be too much to handle.
because the pros do it
i love reading cause it's awesome and you learn stuff!
because the sole blew out on my reynolds 3s and now i cant get the girl... dew tour for life
I love reading because it's an inexpensive way for me to learn. It motivates and inspires me to do great things!
FIRST OFF, BECAUSE ITS THE MOST BALLER THING EVER!!! MAN ITS WHAT SEPARATES US FROM THE ANIMALS!!
i like reading skate mags because i like skating and the people in them are just freaking amazing!!!!
So i can read thrasher and emerica news
and also to write short erotic fiction
i love to read because it is an elighting form of entertainment rather than watching tv or something and like skateboarding it takes you out the everyday struggle which is the reality of life and soothes the soul.
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