Sit down, have a good cry, and then go find out what happened to all the classics like Lord of the Rings, and Captain Blood, and The Count of Monte Cristo and such.
What would you do/say if your sister sat there and argued with you over the uselessness of reading a book?
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare, Othello Boo. SPEW is watching.
Y'know, sometimes a family is a mutant superhuman clown with cartoony powers, a hyperactive shapeshifter created in a lab, the ghost of an artificially created being who only exists for exposition, a cat who is an eldritch god for some reason, and an emo guy who doesn't canonically exist — GengarIsBestBoy