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I can relate to those of you saying you may not read everything assigned.
I too have half-assed my share of reading assignments, and I think it's unfortunate. It's like I've read the book, but I haven't really. Therefore, down the road when I am thinking about re-reading the book I begrudgling read in college, I think I will figure I've "read" it and thus, pick up something else instead.
I definitely think that being forced to read something and taking a negative attitude, will result in a lessened experience and understanding of a book, and furthermore, it may negatively affect your chances of reading the book again, even if by choice.
Sometimes, I will read an assignment half-assed and not read a book for leisure because I'll constantly feel like I should be reading the assigned work more completely, haha.
Also, it doesn't help that one of my professors requires that we write chapter summaries of the works we read, except that he doesn't even read the summaries, and just gives full credit to everyone. By now, everyone is handing in mediocre efforts, because there really isn't a point to do more than that. So, once again, we are getting a "lessened" reading of a work. Granted, we are consciously doing this ourselves, but if the professor would actually read our summaries and grade them realistically, we would likely be more motivated to do quality work.
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