Fantasy books are interesting. We can totally escape into it, knowing that we can get out from there anytime we want.

Steve C – Hm.. that’s another way to look at it. We may have been paranoid about things and when the book we read fortify that paranoia, it just worsen.

The only way we can tackle such problem is by reading more. Hopefully we will have enough information then to conclude ourselves what’s believable and what’s not.

Mark – Thank you for reading Mark

I think it’s amazing how influential a good writer can be and how it can be extremely difficult to avoid adopting the same opinion as the author. This is especially true when you know very little about the topic. For example, I stopped eating beef when that whole mad cow disease scare erupted in the US. I read a few articles written by scientists about the impacts and all of the studies and pretty soon I was paranoid. I guess what I’m trying to say is that sometimes it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing what you read. Great post!

Good post. Totally true and very accurate about how many people will read. Most people are sheep, we all follow the herd mentality and follow along with events and agree with the majority. Its good to just read a fantasy book and escape sometimes, and believing in that fantasy world

Thanks for sharing Ulla

Pocket – 1) There’s a saying, blind people leading the blind. That can never be good. That is why it is very dangerous to follow a person’s ideas blindly.

2) I guess that conversation is bound to happen. At least now we can maybe prepare a list of books just to entertain them. Even though, it is always better to actually read the book.

3) About having to be an experienced reader, I think in the end, we usually will have some ideas about the book we read. Even if we don’t have anything basic we can still let the ideas float in our head. Come to think about it, even history books are rewritten every now and then.

2) Underage version:
‘what is your hobby banji?’
‘reading’
‘good banji, reading is a good hobby’
End of conversation, teacher move on to the next student

Adult version:
‘So Pocket, what do u do in your free time?’
‘reading’
‘owh! reading!? any recent books u’ve read?’
‘aaaa.. err, hummm… that aaaa… ‘
(This would be my answer^^ cause i never read anything popular lately)

wahahahaah,

Yes, not taking everything written in the book would be better,
but u have to be an experienced reader to do that,
most of us are beginner in reading. (Well, atleast i am)
and we kept taking the facts written regardless of
its reliability.

How to know which is the truth and which is conspiracy?
heheh, but i know Harry potter is a fantasy:) that’s for sure