The famous Russian writer Maxim Gorky once said: "I owe everything good to the book." These words can be attributed to absolutely any person who lives on planet Earth. Books play an important role in the life of every person. They make our life interesting and not boring.
Already, as small children, we get acquainted with the first books. Mothers read us fairy tales, instructive stories, interesting stories. Books convey to us the experience that was accumulated by our ancestors for more than one century.
A book is a source of knowledge for every person. It broadens your horizons. Reading books, we can plunge into the past, visit the battlefields, visit knightly tournaments; go to distant countries, get acquainted with the culture and history of other peoples, look into the majestic Gothic churches or modest Protestant churches; sink to the bottom of the ocean and get to know its inhabitants, go into space.
Books help develop a person's thinking and imagination. Reading them, a person can imagine himself as a captain of a spaceship that plows the endless expanses of space, studies distant galaxies. Mentally set off on an incredible journey full of adventures and even dangers. Imagine yourself as a discoverer or a great scientist-inventor. The fantasy that develops through reading books has often become the basis of the greatest discoveries in real life.
Books allow us to get to know different people, their characters, to look from the outside at their actions, and, therefore, take into account their experience, try to avoid mistakes that they made. Thus, books teach us to make the right decisions and do the right things.
Besides, books are an inexhaustible source of knowledge. By reading, a person becomes more literate. His both oral and written speech develops, his vocabulary is enriched. This makes each of us more interesting interlocutors, we make new friends.
Many people today have a bad attitude towards reading books. They believe that they can be completely dispensed with, and all the necessary information can be found on the Internet. Such people can spend hours in front of the TV or at the computer. But they will not think about the fact that if there were no books, then the computer and TV could also not exist. Also, they forget that most of the information that can be read on the Internet comes from books. If they were not there, then this information would not be there either. And the films that we watch are also created on the basis of literary works.
The book is both a good friend, and a wise advisor, and an assistant. She plays an important role in the life of every person. Thanks to the book, a person grows up, becomes educated, learns the world around him and the people who live in it.
