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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
- 00:07
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
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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
- 00:35
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
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reading Well he might find that he loves the book
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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
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Well given the book's reputation amongst its peers it makes
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perfect sense that zach would be worried about this particular
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reed However zach is forgetting that everyone is different tastes
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when it just a literature If he would ignore what
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everyone else says about a tale of two cities long
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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
- 02:27
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
- 02:52
cruising along perfectly happy and we run into a snag
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or brad it could be a character we don't like
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or an over abundance of typos in the tax or
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a plot development that makes no sense even if we
- 03:06
find one or more things That we don't like in
- 03:09
a book chances are there's also at least one thing
- 03:12
in the novel we like or maybe even love So
- 03:15
zach put that hatred for claudia aside she'll be toast
- 03:19
literally All right well there are lots of reasons we
- 03:22
might be worried about reading a book Maybe we don't
- 03:24
like the author's other works Maybe the book has really
- 03:26
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
- 03:40
notice Well it doesn't matter what the issue is we've
- 03:42
got a book to read and the best thing we
- 03:44
can do is stop freaking out and find atleast one
- 03:47
thing about the boat that we can enjoy maybe the
- 03:49
book imparts an important lesson one we've never encountered in
- 03:53
literature before Thing is we'll never get that novel behind
- 03:56
us or discover there's something in it worth admiring until
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we put our worries aside and accept the book for
- 04:02
what it is Zack pull up a comfy chair and
- 04:05
get a cold beverage you've gotta book peruvian friend And
- 04:08
if you just give it a chance you might find
- 04:09
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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