Readicide

I do think that the schools today need to keep some of the literary novels we are made to read like To Kill a Mockingbird or The Glass Castle. But schools should also try and create some room to have more current novels that teenagers these days read, like Twilight. If we had to read Twilight I really think students would get much more into the reading and maybe actually read the book. There are way too many students in school these days that don’t even read the book. They will just spark note it and they can still get a good grade on the test. We need to have more books that students will really enjoy reading, and it may even make students want to read more.

I personally do not think there is really any difference between literary fiction and genre fiction. I have enjoyed almost all of the books we have to read in school. But that could be because I have a much wider variety of books that I like and not all students have that. Some kids always want to stick to one kind of genre like comedy or romance. So being forced to read a book set in the 18 or 1900s could cause many students to hate reading.

I think a book being extremely popular alone should show it is probably a good book. Just because I book is extremely popular does not mean it is less artistic. Yes there are some books out there that are not considered as artistic as the literary novels we are made to read in school, but you cannot look at a book and assume it is less artistic just because it is very popular. I personally believe The Harry Potter series are some of the best books I have ever read. It amazes me that J.K. Roweling could get that artistic and imagine an entire different world like she did.

I still believe that book critics should decide what writing is good and what isn’t. If someone has spent their life studying books and writing and has made a career out of it than they are going to know better than someone like me. Someone who has gone to college and studied all of the different types of writing and knows how to look at something and decide whether it is good or bad should be able to decide whether a book is good or bad. But there should always multiple opinions to keep everything fair so that no one is being biased.