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Sweetpea · 09-20-2009, 07:28 AM

I read mostly as escapism. It's a way to dive into a completely different world and forget my troubles.

I've also read plenty of books that caused me to find out more about what the books was talking about. So, my knowledge got expanded in those areas (like I'm currently reading a book about the Knight Templars).

But in all books, you need to know the overal picture. If I take the example from FlorenceArt, let's see you read Mein Kampf and didn't know anything about Hitler (I've not read that book, so I've no idea how it is written). You are interrested, so you will start looking for other sources (and hopefully find out that Hitler was evil). It would be bad if you took the book on facevalue. But that goes for TV as well.

So, I think, all reading is good, but always believing what an author writes, isn't.

09-20-2009, 07:28 AM	#17
Sweetpea Grand Sorcerer Posts: 9,707 Karma: 32763414 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Krewerd Device: Pocketbook Inkpad 4 Color; Samsung Galaxy Tab S6	I read mostly as escapism. It's a way to dive into a completely different world and forget my troubles. I've also read plenty of books that caused me to find out more about what the books was talking about. So, my knowledge got expanded in those areas (like I'm currently reading a book about the Knight Templars). But in all books, you need to know the overal picture. If I take the example from FlorenceArt, let's see you read Mein Kampf and didn't know anything about Hitler (I've not read that book, so I've no idea how it is written). You are interrested, so you will start looking for other sources (and hopefully find out that Hitler was evil). It would be bad if you took the book on facevalue. But that goes for TV as well. So, I think, all reading is good, but always believing what an author writes, isn't.