Anything that gets kids reading is a good thing, to a point. When I was in school teachers had very few options so we read a lot of books that none of us could relate to. I hardly read until one of our teachers gave us "2001: A Space Odyssey" to read and write a paper on. I wish I still had that paper, it was the only A+ I ever saw, because of that I was hooked on reading and decided to peruse English Lit. I didn't come away with a degree in English Lit, but I did keep a love of reading and have since read every book Clarke wrote, that I could get my hands on.
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