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It's hard to imagine our lives without books. We learn a lot of interesting things when we read books. Books are our great friend, teachers and advisers. They teach us how to take the next step when we are in a difficult situation. They help to shape our life. It is impossible to become an educated person without books. Besides, books play an important role in upbringing our feelings, views and tastes; give us a lot of useful information. Frankly speaking I'm not a bookworm but when I have spare time I read books with great pleasure. It seems to me that books are a source of emotional inspiration and romantic feelings, it's a miracle in some way, because an author provides a story and a reader can interpret the characters in his own way, to imagine how they look like, their voices, gestures and facial expressions, etc. I like to read books about adventures, great people and famous travelers. When you read books you find yourselves in different lands. Together with the characters of the books you climb high mountains, go by ship in the stormy sea, and fly into space. In other words you can have a lot of adventures. I have read a lot of great writers but one of my favorite writers is Jack London.
In my opinion, the best thing about London's works lies dangerously near the worst thing: Both originate in his willingness to confront the scientific ideas of his day and make them part of his private life. Few novelists have tried as hard to show us the layers of culture, searching for some basic truth about the human animal hidden beneath our socially acquired second skins. In doing so, London anticipated many current interests: evolutionary psychology, for instance. At the heart of his work is a very modern understanding that humans are simply another life form, bound like all others to this island in the cosmic sea.
I can say that books and especially works of Jack London have played an important role in my life and have been inspiring for me. They shape the way we look at the world and they are the ways to understand it and understand ourselves as well.
Konsti is a Global Lounge TA of GEO 30.
