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Books are meant to be enjoyed. Sure, authors have different motives for their works—some may want to start a revolution while others hope to deliver a good beach read. However, the point is that you should keep an open mind, no matter what those Amazon reviews say.

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Thank you We sneak Stop worrying and love the book

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Lala shmoop it's two days into school year and zach

00:12

is already freaking out about his english class tomtom tuong

00:17

dozens of upperclassmen have told him that one of the

00:19

books will be required to read is terrible horrible just

00:22

really really bad way would be zach a word of

00:27

advice if we may stop worrying and love the book

00:32

ever But what does that mean Well there are all

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kinds of reasons why we might worry about a book

00:38

in advance of or while reading it but we can't

00:41

let worry stop us from reading let's look at the

00:46

reason the prospect of reading a book might scare the

00:48

heck out of us say the book that zach that

00:52

terrified has been assigned to read is gabrielle garcia marquez

00:57

love in the time of cholera Zach being a sophisticated

01:01

soul has read garcia marquez in the past specifically the

01:04

novel one hundred years of solitude that kate is this

01:08

book he hated it so hard as a result he

01:11

doesn't want to read anything else by garcia marquez Something

01:14

feels really wrong about this picture The thing zack doesn't

01:18

realize is that love in the time of cholera and

01:21

one hundred years of solitude are very different books They're

01:24

so different like night and day chalk and cheese part

01:28

of zack would stop wigging out about the fact that

01:30

his last experience with garcia marquez's novel was bad long

01:34

enoughto open love in the time of cholera and start

01:37

reading Well he might find that he loves the book

01:39

the way its hero florentino loves the beautiful for meena

01:43

All right what if zach is asked to read charles

01:45

dickens a tale of two cities a novel that every

01:48

person who's ever talked to has declared dull deadly dull

01:52

Well given the book's reputation amongst its peers it makes

01:54

perfect sense that zach would be worried about this particular

01:57

reed However zach is forgetting that everyone is different tastes

02:02

when it just a literature If he would ignore what

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everyone else says about a tale of two cities long

02:09

enough to get into the story while he might discover

02:11

that he really connects with the tragic but so totally

02:14

awesome sydney carton eh he might find that he unlike

02:18

the rest of his high school actually loves the heck

02:21

out of a tale of two cities i have tended

02:24

to city all right so what if zac's english teacher

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tells her class to read interview with the vampire Yes

02:30

this is improbable but maybe the school board consists entirely

02:33

of van rice fans and bam party You never know

02:37

At any rate zach starts reading the book and hey

02:39

he likes it up until the moment he runs headlong

02:42

into the character of claudia the undead brat He finds

02:45

that he despises this chick so much he can't bear

02:48

to continue reading Well this happens with books Sometimes we're

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cruising along perfectly happy and we run into a snag

02:55

or brad it could be a character we don't like

02:59

or an over abundance of typos in the tax or

03:02

a plot development that makes no sense even if we

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find one or more things That we don't like in

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a book chances are there's also at least one thing

03:12

in the novel we like or maybe even love So

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zach put that hatred for claudia aside she'll be toast

03:19

literally All right well there are lots of reasons we

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might be worried about reading a book Maybe we don't

03:24

like the author's other works Maybe the book has really

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terrible reviews on amazon Maybe we've started reading the book

03:31

and there's this one itsy bitsy tiny thing that bugs

03:34

are so much we really wanted just picture book property

03:37

room and call it quits consider that my two weeks

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notice Well it doesn't matter what the issue is we've

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got a book to read and the best thing we

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can do is stop freaking out and find atleast one

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thing about the boat that we can enjoy maybe the

03:49

book imparts an important lesson one we've never encountered in

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literature before Thing is we'll never get that novel behind

03:56

us or discover there's something in it worth admiring until

03:59

we put our worries aside and accept the book for

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what it is Zack pull up a comfy chair and

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get a cold beverage you've gotta book peruvian friend And

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if you just give it a chance you might find

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that you love it And it may love you back 00:04:12.155 --> [endTime] on let's Just keep this platonic Never

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