A book is a journey. The guide should take me somewhere interesting. Tell me interesting things. Not be an idiot.
The trip can be slow and beautiful, fast and dangerous, deep and philosophical, or quirky and light. I don't have to love the place or the people because I'm not going to live there.
Teach me. Move me. Blow my mind.
If a book can do a bit of this stuff, it was worth reading.
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