原文： Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport; your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading its fun, not imagination works along with the author’s or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.Every book stands by itself, like a one- family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate, together they all add up to something; they are connected with each other and with other cities. The same idea, or related ones, turn up in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in literature, but with different solutions according to different writings at different times. Books influence each other; they link the past, the present and the future and have their own generations, like families.
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