Men Don't Read

I ran across an article that said as much recently and it should have caught me by surprise-but didn't. For more than a few years now, there has been a ridiculous trend to proclaim and analyze if men are even necessary. And if that is true, why write anything they would read. I think one of the reasons it took me so long to establish an interest in reading was I was not inspired by what my English lit teachers in high school were making me read. Forgive me if I upset some folks, but the Hobbitt, Catcher in the Rye, Shakespeare, and Beowulf did nothing for me. I had to discover reading on my own by trial and error. I could NOT trust literary types recommendations, which unfortunately kept me from "To Kill a Mockingbird" until a year ago. What a great book! But my real AHA moment was reading "Slaughterhouse Five." What was your AHA moment?