'The Magus,' usually described as a book for the young, is about learning that the world is a mysterious and limitless place, beyond our control, and all the more exciting - and daunting - because of it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.
Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.
I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand.