Favorite books

Many people have their favorite books. However, the amount of people, who have read at least one book in their life, decreases exponentially. Many people don’t like to read at all. This mostly refers to younger generations and children. There are also many people, who have read one book. For them it is not a difficult task to determine which book is their favorite one. I think you guess why. Fortunately, there are also people, who still read a lot, though this occupation is not very popular nowadays. I read a lot too. Once I thought what book was my favorite one and couldn’t choose, as there were many of them. Later on I left this useless business and now I don’t try to single out a book to my favorite one.
I don’t understand people, who have chosen one book to be their favorite one. There are so many interesting, exciting, amusing and wonderful books in the world! Is it really possible to single out one of them? I think that this is impossible. Besides, all interesting books differ from each other so much, that it is impossible to compare them. For example, how can one compare a historical novel and science fiction and determine which novel is the best one. This is strange and I think that those readers, who do have their favorite book, limit themselves consciously. They are obsessed with one book and it is very bad. It refers also to other spheres of life. It is harmful for any person to be obsessed with one thing and overlook the world around you.

Magazines

Many people, especially middle-aged and elderly ones still think that only by means of reading a person can develop his/her mind comprehensively. They don’t define completely what they mean by reading. I think that they mean not simply reading as a process, but certain staff for reading, such as novels, poems and stories. They are sure that classic literature has the most powerful educative impact on the young generation. However, youngsters are reluctant to read this sort of literature. They find it boring and incomprehensive. The matter is that nowadays young people have ideals and life goals which differentiate greatly from those of that novels and stories. Maybe twenty years ago, representatives of young generation of that time understood the ideas, hidden in classics, but at present young people don’t even understand the message of this or that story or a novel. That is why they mostly hate literature lessons at school. Once people thought that ideas and ideals laid in these masterpieces of world literature were eternal and would last forever. They were mistaken, as we can judge now by the present-day situation. Life shows that nothing is eternal. Young people are still fond of reading, but they read mostly youth magazines and something from the Internet. They read only those articles and stories, which correspond to their inner world and bring them pleasure and amusement. As for me, I don’t like the most of magazines and journals, published for young people. Life is too short to spend your time for reading something unnecessary and useless.