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1 .It is often said that people are reading less literature today than they used to.
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2 .What should we make of this?
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3 .Well first, a book doesn't have to be literature to be intellectually stimulating.
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4 .Science writing history, political analysis and so forth aren't literature perhaps, but they are often of high quality and these kinds of books can be just as creative and well-written as a novel or a play They can stimulate the imagination.
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5 .So don't assume that someone who isn't reading literature isn’t reading a good book.
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6 .But let's say that people aren't just spending less time with literature, they are also spending less time with books in general.
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7 .Does that mean that the cultures is in decline?
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8 .No, there's plenty of culturally valuable material that isn't written - music and movies, for example.
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9 .Are people wasting their time when they listen to a brilliant song or watch a good movie?
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10 .Do these non-literary activities lower cultural standards?
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11 .Of course not.
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12 .Culture has changed.
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13 .In today's culture, there are many forms of expression available other than novels and poems.
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14 .And some of these creative forms speak more directly to contemporary concerns than literature does.
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15 .Finally, it's probably true that there's less support for literature today than in earlier generations.
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16 .But don't be too quick to blame the readers.
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17 .Sometimes it's the author's faults.
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18 .Let's be honest.
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19 .A lot of modern literature is intended to be difficult to understand.
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20 .Here is not much reason to suppose that earlier generations of readers would have read a lot of today's literature either.
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