In today’s age of visual overstimulation, whether the
overstimulation comes from from movies, television or the Internet,
there is a smarter entertainment alternative that’s often
overlooked ““ reading.
Just because you’re required to do it for class
doesn’t mean that it can’t provide you with
extracurricular ecstasy, catharsis or whatever it is you
desire.
Books excite the imagination with mental pictures that the
reader creates. Unlike the MTV quickness that takes our breath
away, books allow us to take our breath back and enter into a
person’s thoughts, a far away situation or a moment from the
past, just by reading mere words on a page. It’s cheaper than
a movie ticket, portable and, best of all, it’s sexy.