Pleasure of Reading
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Reading means exercise of mental faculties, a play of the mind, which is bound to give pleasure. Man is a civilized creature, and his civilization has been built by his reason and imagination. It is his reason and imagination which find expression in books. The more advanced a man is, the greateer delight he will find reading. The ordinary man may think that subjects like philosophy or science are very difficult and that if philosopheres and scientists read these subjects, it is not for pleasure but for some other ends. But this is not true. The mathematician finds the same pleasure in his mathematics as the school boy in an adventure story. For both it is a play of the intellect of the imagination, a mental recreation and exercise.
Different Types of Book
Different types of books give us differnt types of pleasure, and all books ale not equally popular. First, in order of popularity is novel-reading. Novels contain picutres of imaginary men and women in imaginary situations, and they give us an opportunity of peeping into a new world which is very much like our world and yet different from it. Here we seem to live a new life and the experience of this new life gives us a thrill of pleasue to which there a few parallels. Some will be interested in detective novels, some in social novels and some in studies of character. But all of them have stories, all of them portray interesting characters, and there are few people who are not fascinated by novels.
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Next in order of popularity are travel books, biographies and memoirs. These tell us tales of places we have not seen and of great men in whom we are interested. Some of these books are as wonderful as novels and they have an added value that they are true. Few-novels can be more thrilling than the lives of Napoleon or Abraham Lincoln. Such books give us knowledge. but we also find immense pleasure in knowing details of lands we have not seen and of greatmen whom we have only heard of.
History Books also give Pleasure
History belongs to the same class as biographies and travel books, only it is graver and more complicated than these. For those who are interested in the story of man in the past nothing can be more absorbing than history which gives us an account of man’s activity and progress. It does not give the lives of great man but contains the record of humanity as a whole. That is why its compass is larger and its attitude more impersonal. The study of history is as much a recreation as the reading of novels or travel books but it is delightful in its own way.
Others Types of Books
Novels, biographics, travel books and histories have the greatest attraction for the general reader ; other books are interesting for readers with special tastes and aptitudes. We all of us, are poets to same extent and, therefore, all of us may take some interest in poetry. But it is the man with an imaginative turn of mind that will be especially fascinated by poetry. In our country, most men love Rabindranath’s poetry and the whole world loves Shakespeare. But many people find poetry too sublime for them.
Drama
Drama is meant chiefly for acting, but the man of literary tastes finds pleasure as much in reading dramas, especially poetic dramas as in seeing them on the stage. Such a man finds also great pleasure in reading books of criticism in which he finds analysis of the beauties of literature.
Others Kind of Books
Other men will find pleasure in subjects that interest them. The student of economics is charmed by books of economics, the philosophers will like to browse amongst philosophical works, and scientists are fascinated by science. Now-a-days, there are books on all subjects. The cricket fan not only play cricket and sees cricket matches but finds joy reading the accounts of cricket written by men like Gavaskar and Bradman. The best books on different subjects available in the market are never deprived of the patronage of the reading public who derive pleasure and profit from them.
Conclusion
Pleasure and profit-these are the two chief attractions of reading. Ordinarily we think that reading is for profit, it brings us position. honour and money. But the other aspect is not less important. Reading is one of the greatest enjoyments of life. To the book-lover nothing is more fascinating than a favourite book, and the ordinary educated man who is interested and absorbed in his daily occupation wants occassionally to escape out of his drudgery into the wonderland of books for recreation and refreshment.
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