Resumo de To Choose A Book, Or To Choose A Taste?

When one chances upon a collection of books, what is it the reader looks for? Do they lay their interest in a book solely on the oppinions of others, or do they flip the book to its 'tail end'? And by doing so, do they then claim to know whether or not this piece of lierature is suited for them? Does a reader start out upon a few chapters, wait for boredom, and then throw it off to the side? Or does this reader just plunge into, no retreatin,g no turning back? What a reader looks for has always been considered to vary from person to person. And yet, there is no msitake, no matter how often we say that 'you can't judge a book from its cover', or 'I have my own tastes', we still contradict this by the methods we, as readers, use to find the ideal reading material.

How does one know quality when they see it? Is it, in fact, impossible to tell what contains quality to the human race? To read a book and find it to be 'perfect' does not mean you have found a book of quality, and that it should be recomended to the public, nor should it go vice-a-versa should you find it to be of great distaste to you.To speak of what one may consider truth, your only discover uponreadin the book thatit isof quality to you. To another, it could be merely rubbish; inconsistant and/oroffthe base of what is needed forliterature to take its place in society. And same may be used to annalyze to classics, for no classic is of universal quality. Can a classic hold meaning for every reader who chances above it? Can it increase knowledge and/or benefit every eye that views its page? Unpopular, it mayseem, is the responce of 'No, it 'may' not'.This is so becausethere is no single oppinion, no absolute 'this' or 'that'. There is only what is 'popular' in belief, which is what truth relies on heavily to be so.

However, I doubt one can deny that every book has something to teach another. For to persieve something is to 'learn' it, to have it uploaded to our complex systems that make us human. In this case, the classic may very well benefit the reader, but in the same fashion that anything one can eprsieve would. And as far as benefits go, to the degree it beenfits you depends greatly on one's defination/oppinion on the concept of 'benefit'. Because of this, one can not define a book by looking at the back of its cover, nor can they discover its quality by reading the netire thing. However, by reading a book, and only by reading this book, entirely and thoughtfully, can one find the quality it is to that one. Thus your friend, who enjoys a book you find despicable, can never have bad taste; he/she can only have taste that is not yours. What is not yours is not bad, for no taste will ever be the same. And because of this, the art of reading will continue to strive, for imangine an art where your own interpretation and oppinions are the only thigns that matter.

In a book, this is the way of life.

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