What is Reading You

Reading in some circles are a fashion. As one may may be tempted to attend a concert because many of his or her friends do that, some read often what they find others read. This creates a situation where they slowly lose their original taste, or the ability to select what is suitable for them.
Often it comes out in the way that it is not you that select the book but the book selects you. That is you are not reading, rather something is reading you, or something or someone is prevailing over the domain of what you read.
One interesting thing here is the books our kids are reading. Kids sometimes engage in a preposterous reading habit where they start with a book that should reach them at a later stage in their reading experience. Reading becomes preposterous when a kid who did not read Alice in Wonderland is forced to devour Harry Porter. Preposterous reading often kills the growth of a person's sensibility. The kid grows out to be one lacking in the basic ability to understand the aesthetic value of a literary work.
Books are to be selected based on the mental age of a person. Even some adults fall victims to preposterous reading. If an Indian reader of English books who has not read the novel of R.K Narayan jumps directly into reading Salman Rushdie's novels, he/she would experience a feeling of being postmodern before becoming modern. Moreover, the sensibility of a person has to develop through exposure to a series of books that include some early books that are treated "must read" by eminenet readers.
However, the question of preposterous reading becomes insignificant if some read a book because their neighbors, friends, teachers or enemies are reading it. If the purpose is to divulge into the field of aesthetics with a genuine interest in it preposterous reading will only help negatively.