I agree with you. This is just an excuse.

I believe that they hesitate to immerse themselves in the world of books, because they're afraid of what they may find there, especially if they have never tried it before.

Although Saint Exupery was a pilot, I think that the messages in his books are very down-to-earth.

George Orwell's pen ingeniously captured farm animals to symbolize oppressed people and their revolution against bosses, although something went wrong in the process.