TV, video, computer games are supposed to becoming more popular than books. Despite the increasing competition from technological entertainments like these many people still buy books. Adventage of watching TV is receiving of information without our own activity. But this is also reason that we spend our leasure time and we kill a development of ourselves. For this reason I've been prefering reading books for the last 5 or 6 month. Books can be divided into several groups. Acording to from we know novel, poem, play, fairytail, historical novel, love story, short story, romance, sci-fi, thiller and accoding to style poetry, drama and prose. But usually we divide books into fiction (novels, poems, love stories ...) and non-fiction (encyclopedias, books of travels, biography...). The name of the book is called title anf the person who it writes is author. Every book hat its subject (What is it about?), setting (where and when does the story place?), characters (the main characters and their description), events (What happens?) and also ideas (Does author say anything important about poeple/society? Has she/he got an important message for us?...). As I said many poeple still buy books. And also lot of them use public libraries or borrow them from individuals (if they have not got them in their own familie's bookcase). Buying comes next. In book-shops or in second-hand shops). In Britain and America the publication of some book usually follows a pattern. First comes the hard-back, expensive and heavy-normally only bought by libralies or people with money to spare. Then, a few months later, when the publisher has an idea of the book's popularity, comes the ligher, cheaper and more convement paperback, or , as the Americans say soft-back. Usually paperbacks are about 30% of the price of hardbacks. If a book is sold really well it is called a Bestseller. I'm a student and I like books a bit more. I have found out that they are really the best friends of man. They give me more than some people. They tell me a lot of news about people, their lives and their point of views. I can have a fantastic day just reading a book. I should say that my favourite writer doesn't exist. In many books I can find interesting ideas, new values or just perfectly discribed story. Books helped and also help me to understand our life better. I would like to speak about one writer who told me a lot of about war in his book CATCH-22. It is an anti-war satire, was on the list of bestsellers for years. Describing the life of soldiers at an American airforce base, Heller reveals the stupidy of bureaucratic war administration and its regulations. Catch-22 has been traslated into all European languages and made into a successful film in 1970.
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