A Book is an escape. I think a book is a gateway into a story that you would have never heard of if you hadn’t read the first page. To me a book is an outlet. Just how music is an outlet to some people, and running to others; reading a book is mine. You’re in a sense leaving the world you’re in, and simply reliving someone else’s. When I’m reading I get so involved in the book I am completely oblivious to what’s going on around me. So I guess you could say my outlet works. Forgetting about my problems and realizing the person in my book has problems ten times worse than mine, is almost a relief.
I agree with Joe Meno’s opinion on what a book is. I like reading books because I get to imagine them and create a world that I WANT to see. That’s one reason why I like reading the book before watching the movie. If you watch the movie first, it alters you’re horizon of your imagination. It automatically put images in your head that maybe you don’t agree with. I agree cause I think no matter how you’re reading it, you’re still reading: and that’s what matters. I disagree with Tom Piazza’s point of view because I think no matter which way you’re reading you still had to formulate an image of what’s happening in the book. As long as you’re intrigued and can still imagine, I don’t see where the problem is.
I think every book has a different spin to it, and a different story. It forces you’re mind to imagine situations and make inferences of things you would never have to think of. Like in The Hunger Games, I’ve never been put in a situation where I have to fight to the death. But that’s where the fun part comes in. You get to imagine fighting till death, and what you yourself would do if put in those situations. Without realizing it you’re learning. Learning about survival techniques, learning about how people formulate opinions, just learning! Once you a close a book, you’re left some new information, and a sweet satisfaction that you finished reading it.
