2006-09-26 21:16:29 · 27 answers · asked by gautam d 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
They open your mind to new ideas and cultures. They help you empathise with people in dramatically different situations to yourself. They are extremly entertaining (or good ones are anyway).
TV is passive, it rots the brain. Books are interactive, you have to use your mind to explore them, they enrich the brain.
2006-09-26 21:23:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can be good, can be bad. The Koran and the Bible are in book form. The book of Mormon, Mein Kampf, Julia Child's French cooking are also books. Because it is a book is no guarantee of it's worth to humanity.
It gets old an crumbles to dust eventually, attracts mice and lice, can be a fire danger if it isn't stored correctly. So, book huggers, in my estimation, are another nut group.
However, the valuable information held in some books will be a lasting testimonial to the societies of the past, present and future. Discs are a better storeage medium, however.
2006-09-27 04:39:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are books but what they are? They're mysterious rectangular objects costing anywhere from a dollar to hundreds, yet for all the money they earn their makers, what they hold is priceless. They're entertainment for the bored, mind challengers for the intellectuals, new worlds for the curious, opinions for the opinionated, creative release for the authors and readers, they're information for the ignorant and curious, they are a way to see other point of views, they are the wealth of the world and I think it sad they are made of something so destructable as paper. They are priced, yet they are priceless, they take years to create and print, yet they may destroyed within minutes, they offer knowledge and wisdom to everyone, yet are censured by many. I could not have made in this mundane, dreary world without books as my ever faithful companions. They are the most honest friends, never lying unless one misunderstands the message. They are always there, willing to repeat and clarify how ever many times may be necessary.
2006-09-27 09:54:46 · answer #3 · answered by Es Macht Nichts 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The books you read can change you as much as any other experience. Reading allows you to draw on the lives, experiences, wisdom, folly, and feelings of other beings. Even those that you think in no way pertainto the way you lead your life have an impact on your psyche by feeding your mind in unexpected ways.
I have learned most of what I know through books, including the English language. I am writing this to you today thanks to the power of a Star Trek book that I wanted to read, but I had to learn English first :)
2006-09-27 04:58:06 · answer #4 · answered by Jhan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me books are my life. They are my best friends who enlighten me and entertain me. I do all kinds of spells with Harry Potter, I solve difficult mysteries with the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes. I feel like a real pirate reading Treasure Island R.L. Stevenson. Recently I have grown interest in authors such as Sidney Sheldon, Jeffrey Archer, John Grisham, Dan Brown, Mario Puzo, Frederick Forsyth etc. So, for my 13-year-old heart, books are above everything else.
2006-09-27 07:54:16 · answer #5 · answered by Sonu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably the greatest value of books in life is to experience worlds and ideas and people through the printed word that you do not have the time to experience in your lifetime.
2006-09-27 06:45:46 · answer #6 · answered by Mike S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Partly bad, partly good.
There are books that can enrich an individual and in turn world, they can release the world from erraneous concepts.
There are books that can lead to erraneous concepts and chaos.
The first step of belief or action, if comes from reading a book, cannot be thus made from merely reading a book, but rather reading books from varioius sources, updated knowledge of history, beliefs.
Bottomline, do not go by the book.
2006-09-27 06:06:43 · answer #7 · answered by Sohed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Books are a really best friend as good as teacher...
They give us story and courage when we are sad.
(such as Chicken Soup,...)
They contain a lot of useful things that teach us and guide us through our live.
Give us everything that we need for our studies and lifes.
They make us to be a better person full with knowledge and wisdom.
They also can be our mother who teaches us how to speak...and comuicate with other people
Every kind of books, every chapter, every page of book has its own purpose... so books are very useful for us.
Don't judge the book from its cover, becaus it may contains a very useful things that u need at this moment.
2006-09-27 08:42:30 · answer #8 · answered by beagle52 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Book are as sacred and essential as gods in our life. They keep you purposefully and meaningfully engaged. Book reading is a passion, that keeps your mind under control. It enlarges your world view and the more expanded you are in mind the better equipped you are to accept all kind of diverse ideas and people. Most of the dogmatic and indoctrinated bigots are not known to be readers of books. As a matter of fact, they are contemptuous about books and for them they are blasphemous. Recall the words of Mathew Arnold, who in the Victorian era when confronted and confounded by the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin, and regarded the religion to have failed, suggested that literature should become the substitute of religion. Such is the power of books. Even in the face of electronic media, the attraction to books has not diminished.
2006-09-27 04:34:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Books bring knowledge.
They are best of friends.
They never lie or talk your back
They make you happy
I know one truth that without books in my life it would be like a rainbow without a colour. They colour my life an dbring me joy. They are my best friends.
No words are quite enough to value a book in my life. their value is much more greater than words can express.
2006-09-27 11:18:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't say it's the books themselves that have value but the information they hold.
Ans sure we can pass down information and stories to our kids and hope they will be able to remember them to pass on but books make it easier to store old stories and knowledge without worry of forgetting how it went or how that happened.
2006-09-27 04:26:58 · answer #11 · answered by rona 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋