The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man’s frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Max Lerner
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I always hate when I hear someone talking about how badly they want to read a book, but then once they do read it, that person hates it. One of the biggest reasons for this is that they are not allowing themselves to enjoy the book. It is important when reading a book to enjoy the words on the page. The words are all written by people with their own feelings, opinions, and emotions. It might be an amazing story filled with adventure and thrilling twists of fate.

However, you must not get so caught up in the story that you forget to enjoy it for what it is. You must take time to really savour the words of the book and try to put yourself in the mind of the author. If you can get this far into the book, then you will be able to see where the author was coming from when he wrote his piece.

You will understand why he would write something or why he would choose to end the story at that point instead of leaving things hanging. This is extremely important because if you don’t enjoy the book enough to pass some time with it afterwards, then you will never make it through your pile of unread books on your shelf.

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