Reading is one of the best things in the world. I have always liked it because it makes you get inside new worlds and it lets your imagination work. It is incredible how you can be reading at home and at the same time, you feel like in anywhere else. The kind of books I enjoy reading are novels and fantastic ones. My favorite book is Harry Potter, I have read all of them. In fact, I started reading his books before he got famous. Also, the novels from Hernán Rivera Letelier are my favorite, I love the way He writes and how he made himslf a writer. I´m actually reading "Himno del Ángel parado en una pata" from him, but I haven´t been able to read it in a long time because of my studies. I wish I had more time to do it.
I consider myself a good reader since I was little. I have always had a book near me to be read. However, I believe kids from now haven´t got the habit of reading yet. The fact of having internet at home keeps them connected to the computer all day long. Kids only read the books assigned at school. Anyway, i don´t think they will disappear with the advent of internet. Internet can give you many options, entertainment, games, homeworks done, among others, but it will never give you the pleasure of having a book in your hands. I read a long time ago an article from La Tercera called "10 things that will dissapear with the time", and one of them was the paper book. Right after I read it I thought they were wrong because not everyone has the posibility to read a book in a digital format, and some of us, like me, definetely don´t like reading books in the computer. We all like technology but the true is that at some point we wil get full of it.
Right now, we need to promete reading among the young. The state usually asks why kids don´t read? why "pirateria" increases so quickly? and it´s because books taxes are really high. Common people don´t have money to buy authentic ones, and what does the government do? they go after the people who makes copies of them! They better regulate the prices of them. Plus this, It´s not acceptable that in Argentina you can find cheaper Pablo Neruda´s books than in Chile. We live in a country of poets and writers, we should have a better "reading system".
I also think the same things. The best thing of to read is that one can to be or to feel like the protagonist.
ReplyDeleteI save a comment just for you, in order that I was sure about your HP menction...haha =)
ReplyDeleteAlso, I had read some books on digital format, and definetely is not the same...Go, paper!