Yeah. I'm cursed with reading, bad things happen to the people I know, so I gave up.
I was reading the L.O.T.R books and they were amazing, then I stopped during ROTK because my mate was forced to quit his job, meaning he'd be round more often (so no reading time, which granted I enjoyed seeing him, he's a good mate and we have a good laugh and fun on games together).
Then my gdad got really really ill. Then about 8 months later, I started reading the Halo books. My mate done a parachute jump for charity was blew of course and was nearly killed (so that's both of us with near death experiences. Mine lead to late nights
).
And my nana needed surgery out of the blue.
So, about a month ago, I went into a bookstore with my bro, and same mate lost his voice that same hour (very freaky).
So i'm scared to read anymore. Magazines and joke books (like Simpsons and comics) are fine, but real books, I don't touch anymore.