ARE BOOKS BETTER THAN TV? - Judit Martí

I think this is an interesting issue. There are a lot of people who don’t like books, they hate reading and I don’t understand why. I think reading books is fantastic, you can forget about everything which is around you; you can feel all the characters’ adventures. I love it, however, television is a constant bombardment of music, images and feelings and you don’t have to use your imagination. There are a lot of advantages of reading books, but there are a lot of advantages of watching the TV too. Which of the two things do you think it’s going to win?

On the one hand, books are much more interesting than television. One of the advantages is that you can learn a lot of things. With a history book you learn about history, with a novel you learn a lot of vocabulary and it helps you to write better than the others, you have facility to write about a lot of things. In addition, books make you forget about your problems, about your life, about everything around you. Your imagination flies through the book’s story; you can imagine everything with a lot of details. If you like the book and it’s a good one, you can’t stop reading; you read until your eyes are red, but, despite of this, you feel very happy. Moreover, books are portable and cheaper than television.

On the other hand, television is something to relax, to disconnect from the world, but when you’re concentrated watching a program or a film… On the screen appear advices. Then, after ten minutes (or more), you don’t know in which moment you were on the film. Television is a very popular medium because of its lots of channels, which there are a lot of types (news channels, comedy channels, music channels, etc). Over 900,000 people watch over 4 hours of television a day. We can think that TV it’s a good thing, but, for example, it’s not recommended for children under two years because it can cause brain dysfunction. With the books this doesn’t happen.

All in all, I think books are better. You can see TV sometime but in my opinion it’s better to read some good books. You can think that books are boring because you have only read school books. With that point of view I agree, I also think they’re very boring. But when you discover a type of books you like, then is when you began to read a lot. For example, I began reading Harry Potter books, then vampire and love books and now I love horror books, where a lot of people die.

Books are a good way to entertain you, so if you don’t know what you have to do, read a book; and if it isn’t good for you, search a good one or watch television.