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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner
What really gets on my nerves is the attitude of "if you don't like this book, you are just too stupid to get it". Because the opinions of critics and scholars are absolute truths, and someone who doesn't agree with their tastes is defective, apparently.
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I get the same impression...
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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner
@Sweetpea: Wiktionary says, "a building up, especially in a moral, emotional, or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; through encouragement and instruction".
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That still doesn't clarify the problem to me. Whenever I read a book, I learn. I even learned from the latest Dan Brown book. And I read that book for entertainment. Even though it wasn't really written very well, it did point to some interesting facts, which made me look further.
So, I keep standing to my statement, if you don't read for entertainment, why read at all? (naturally, I'm not counting those books you must read for education)