Is it just me?

katho11
Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:17:35 +0000

If opening your mind to new ideas is useless, then sure, novels are useless.

I love political-fiction type books like 1984, Animal Farm, A Separate Peace, Brave New World, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Jungle (which, by-the-way, was certainly not useless), The Crucible, The Scarlet Letter, etc because they do make you think.

I have a thing for WWII, so I read a ton of nonfiction books about it as well. Currently I’m reading The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler…awesome book.

Philosophy books are awesome, too. Lincoln-Douglas debate got me hooked…and one of my buddies majoring in Philosophy and History sure did all he could to encourage it.

And there’s nothing wrong with a little Harry Potter in between.

I get that some people don’t enjoy reading (or don’t like certain genres), but it’s a bit silly to say that a book is useless just because it’s not factual.