The writer Lin Yu-T'ang has some opinions in his essay that I don't agree with. In the essay it say that " The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world." That part I sort of agree with because I when I read a book that I really like I get taken into a new world but I don't feel that if someone does not read that he is imprisoned in his own world. He can still get taken away into a different world by doing something else that he really enjoys to do. So people just like to read and some people like to listen to music, play video games, and draw. Those are a few things that can also tak

Towards the end of the essay I start to agree with Lin Yu-T'ang more and more. He says " In reading as in eating, what is one mans meat may be another's poison." Also " A teacher cannot force his pupils to like what he like sin reading, and a parent cannot except his children to have the same taste as himself." All this mean is that not all people are into the same thing and people expect other people to like the same book.

In conclusion, Lin Yu-T'ang and I do not really have the same views on reading. Just a few views are the same. His essay was mostly about the person reading and the author he is reading. If a person can fined a great author then he will definitely get pulled into the world that the author was in. So all it is saying is that you can't force someone to read, you have to let them fall in love with their own style of book or author. Over all Lin Yu-T'ang's essay was great but it was hard to comprehend.

e you away in a different world. He also writes " A scholar who hasn't read anything for three days feels that his talk has no flavor and his own face becomes hateful to look at." What that mean is that reading give a m

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