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“There is also an imaginative communal aspect of reading. Built into the experience of engaging with a text is the experience of thinking about other readers. As an individual reads, he positions himself in a relationship to other possible responses to the text, the differences allowing an assertion of identity in terms of taste, preference, and even values. As much as reading allows you to imagine what it is like to be someone else, it also allows you to imagine what it is like to be yourself, though distinguished from others. who are also imagined.”

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Book:Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith
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“Tracking what you've read is in itself another process that turns you away from the actual experience of reading (...) the only experience that you should really concern yourself with is understanding the text, you know, getting a really great experience out of the text (...) in the case of fiction it's about really enjoying the plot and letting this plot want to transform you in some way. Whereas if you set yourself these artificial reading goals per year or how many books I'm going to dig through per year it sort like deviates you away from the very first person experience of immersing yourself in the text...”

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“This extensive reading was the beginning of my second transformation. I was an intellectual in the making. At least that is what I believed. Perhaps raising my intellect would numb my animalistic instincts, I was of the view. Perhaps I will stop thinking about love and girls. I would find my true purpose. I would think about something higher. But who is to say what is higher? Who is to say what is gross and what is empyrean? And what the hell is ‘true purpose’ in the first place?”

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Book:The World's Most Frustrated Man
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