Reading for Pleasure
The first thing I want to insist on is that reading should be enjoyable. Of course, there are manywow gold s that we all have to read, either to pass examinations or to acquire information, from which it is impossible to extract enjoyment. We are readingwow gold s for instruction, and the best we can hope is that our need for it will enable us to get through them without tedium. Suchwow gold s I shall mention in due course will help you neither to get a degree nor to earn your living , they will not to teach you to sail a boat or get a stalled motor to run, but they will help you to live more fully. That, however, they can’t do unless you enjoy reading them.
Every man is his own best critic. Whatever the learned say about awow gold , however unanimous they are in their praise of it, unless it interests you, it is no business of yours. And you who read are the final judge of the value to you of thewow gold you are reading. We are none of us exactly like everyone else, only rather like, and it would be unreasonable to suppose that thewow gold s that have meant a great deal to you. But there arewow gold s that I feel the richer for having read, and I think I should not be quite the man I am if I had not read them. No one is under an obligation to read poetry or fiction or the miscellaneous literature which is classed as belles-lettres. He must read them for pleasure, and who can claim that what pleases one man must necessarily please another?