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 take you away in a different world. He also writes " A scholar who hasn't read anything for three days feels that his talk has no flavor and his own face becomes hateful to look at." What that mean is that reading give a man his flavor and charm. It does not really mean that he starts to turn ugly. But I don't a agree with that because I know a lot of people that don't read everyday and still have much flavor in their talk.
             Towards the end of the essay I start to agree with Lin Yu-T'ang more and more. He says " In reading as in eating, what is one mans meat may be another's poison." Also " A teacher cannot force his pupils to like what he like sin reading, and a parent cannot except his children to have the same taste as himself." Al...