Art and Culture
Norway
Is reading fiction a waste of time?
By Amanda
A fiction book is always there for you when you need to get your thoughts somewhere
else or to entertain. We should get more hours to just read and read. We can learn a lot
from reading, so why should it be a waste of time?
Reading fiction is not a waste of time, you can learn a lot from books. You learn how to
be nice to strangers, in stories (in the end) it is always the good ones who win the war.
Books tells us that bad decision can lead us to bad paths. Other things you learn about
is family, friendship and of course, love. You can expand your vocabulary, and eventually
you will write better texts too. We can also hear about people saying that reading fiction
helped them to learn new languages.
When you read from the characters view, you can read and think of what you would
have done in the same situation. You can learn from others mistakes before you make
the same ones. You can ask yourself: “Would I have done the same thing? I had said
yes to that”. You can also get more sensitive about people and get more social. You can
begin to think about more things in the world others take for grant, and see the world
with open eyes. In the books, you can see how different we all think, how far the
fantasy and imagination goes. It never stops and always gives the reader a massage.
At some point, all of us just wish to disappear from the world, at what better way than
take a fiction book and get lost. We all have our daily problems to deal with and
sometime it just gets too much. You can disappear in a book for a few hours and come
back later to deal with the problems. Getting lost in some fiction book is good, where
the only border is the author`s imagination. The character in the book is your eyes and
ears, and everything you have to do is to read. Reading a fiction book is relaxing; where
the fantasy makes the book interesting.
To conclude this all up, reading fiction is not a waste of time. You can learn a lot from
books, from the words the authors use, to the meaning – behind the words and the
imagination. We can also learn from the characters in the books, to think and see what
happens and it is a way to get your mind somewhere else than your normal day.