The Art of Reading
The art of reading is not a bunch of set rules it is what comes from your heart. Through out most of the essay Lin Yu-T’ang writes about how there is not just one book for everyone in the world. Each person in the world reads something that they like not that someone else likes. I feel that some of his opinions were the same as mine but other opinions were not. The main point of " The Art of Reading" is trying to say that you can’t force someone to read, you have to let them fall in love with their own style of book or author. The writer Lin Yu-T’ang has some opinions in his essay that I don’t agree with. In the essay it say that " The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world." That part I sort of agree with because I when I read a book that I really like I get taken into a new world but I don’t feel that if someone does not read that he is imprisoned in his own world. He can still get taken away into a different world by doing something else that he really enjoys to do. So people just like to read and some people like to listen to music, play video games, and draw. Those are a few things that can also tak . . .
Towards the end of the essay I start to agree with Lin Yu-T’ang more and more. Maybe because I don’t read a lot though I don’t really know how books take you into a different world like Lin Yu-T’ang. " I mostly agree with his way of thinking here, because there are some authors that I like are some that I don’t and the authors that I don’t like I can’t really get into the book. But like I said before there are other ways to get pulled into a different world. If a person can fined a great author then he will definitely get pulled into the world that the author was in. So all it is saying is that you can’t force someone to read, you have to let them fall in love with their own style of book or author. Well, I feel that people that read in a way do have more of an advantage over people that don’t read as much in the sense that people that don’t read as much don’t get to see different ways of writing. He also says that "if the author is just right for you; your style, your taste, your point of view, your mode of thinking, are all right. " He is says that you just fall involve with it on your own kind of like love at first sight. A really good main point in his essay was that " a reader cannot be told to love this or that one. He says " In reading as in eating, what is one mans meat may be another’s poison.
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