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Reyne Delozier
Books. Alright, I can do this one. It may be half past one in the morning, but hey, high school has prepped me for this since day one.
Speaking of high school, in my state, part of the 12th grade curriculum is the book 1984 by George Orwell. In it, he describes a dystopian future in which a political party has managed to obtain complete control over society. No action goes unseen, no word unheard, and no thought unread. It demands complete and utter loyalty from its members, and in return it gives them whatever they would need to survive.
The Party, as it is lovingly referred to, has such total control over its people that marriages are arranged by the government, education is provided by the government, food is issued by the government. News, industrial processes, sports, even fortification-all controlled by the government. The Party is absolute.

关于书的问题，我可以回答。现在应该是凌晨一点半，但是，高中我就为回答这个问题做好了准备。
说到高中，我所在的州的乔治·奥威尔写的《 1984年》是必读书目。他在书中描述的未来是反乌托邦的，一个政党具有对国家的绝对控制权。所有的行动、讲话、和思想都是公开透明的，这个政党要求所有社会成员都是绝对忠诚的，政府会给人民提供生活所需的一切。
这个政党，对人民有绝对的控制权，人民的婚姻由政府包办，教育由政府提供，食物由政府发放。新闻媒体、体育、工业、国防都是由党控制的。党的权威不可侵犯。

One of the biggest enemies of the Party and thus the Party's power is books because books are one of the best ways to spread ideas. In the Revolution that occured leading to the Party seizing control, all books were destroyed. They do not exist in the realm of 1984.
Now, let us shy away from fiction and into reality. There is a period of time referred to as the Enlightenment, in which mankind as a whole opened up its eyes and realized that we were capable of much more than we had previously accomplished. Philosophers met frequently to exchange thoughts, and eventually certain philosophers wrote their thoughts ans ideas into books. These books aided the transfer of ideas immensely. In fact, they were so influential that eventually a group of colonies banded together and rebelled against the most powerful empire of the time in an attempt to establish a government based upon the ideas of the Enlightment era. They were successful, and thus the United States was born.

书籍同时扮演着党最大的敌人和最得力的帮手两个角色，因为书籍是传播思想有力武器。在政党夺取控制权的革命中，所有书籍都被销毁了。1984年党统治的区域内书籍不复存在。
现在，让我们走出小说，回到现实。启蒙运动时期，人类开始开眼看世界，意识到我们有能力超越以前的成就。哲学家经常交流自己的思想，最终一些人将自己的思想编撰成书。这些书极大地促进了思想的传播。他们的影响非常大，许多殖民地团结起来对抗当时最强大的帝国，想要根据启蒙时代的思想建立政府。他们成功了，于是美国诞生了。

So back to the question. Books are important because they provide a few things that are key to an open and intelligent society. They provide a safe place for any intellectual to store his or her thoughts. They provide a means of transporting these thoughts from person to person. They provide a chance to influence the values and intelligence of a society.
Oh, and if you have not managed to derive the reason why you should read books, let me explain. By partaking in a well written book, you are exposing yourself to the inner workings of somebody else's mind. You are catching a glimpse of their passions and values. You are absorbing a piece of their being. You can then utilize that knowledge that you have gained to be a good and productive member of society, one that can make wise and just and decisions, amd you will in turn be able to make your own mark on history.

让我们回到问题本身。书籍之所以重要，是因为书籍能够带动社会开放，开启民智。它们为知识分子提供了书写整理自己思想的机会。书籍为人与人之间传递这些思想提供了一种途径。书籍可以影响社会价值观和社会的整体知识水平。
如果你还不知道为什么要读书，我可以再解释一下。读一本好书后，你可以将自己和别人做对比，你可以看到书中角色或者作者的激情和价值观。还可以从中收获激情和动力。然后，你可以通过自己的知识，成为一个对社会有贡献的人，你可以做出明智，公正的决定，以在历史的长河中留下印记。
Aurel Kurtula, I read 我读书

First, lets point out the contradiction.
Since you ask “why is reading important” you know that it is important. Then, if reading is important why does it matter which books you start with? If reading is important, then you’ll start reading now and you’ll finish a week before your death. So, as a life long reader, Whether you start with book A and finish with book Z, or start with book P and finish with book A, clearly it doesn’t matter.
If you want to read start reading!

首先，让我们指出问题矛盾所在。
因为你问了“为什么读书很重要”，所以你知道读书很重要。既然你知道阅读很重要，那从哪本书开始阅读其实是无关紧要的。你应该从现在开始直到你死之前都在读书，因此，既然你一辈子都在读书，无论您是从A书读到Z书，还是从P书读到A书，显然都影响不大。
如果您想阅读，那就从现在开始吧！

Let me put it this way, lets say, everyone agrees that you must start with crime and punishment but for some reason you start with 50 shades of grey. If you agree that reading is important and hence you’re going to spend some time every day reading, why shouldn’t you start with 50 shades of grey? Or rather what the hell is the rush to start with crime and punishment ?

让我这样表述，可以说，每个人都可以从罪与罚开始读起，但是出于某种原因，您必须从50度灰开始阅读。如果赞同阅读非常重要，所以每天都需要花一些时间读书，为什么不从50度灰开始读呢？为什么一定要从罪与罚开始读呢？

If we take 50 people that never read a book in their lives, if we then take 200 experts to come up with the best books these 50 people should read first. I would be willing to bet everything I have that those, expertly chosen, books will not be liked by the 50 people!
There’s a huge number of books. If you send all your life constantly reading you’ll never read everything. In fact if those 50 people spend their life reading and the combine all the books they read, it would not come close to the number of books published. Even if, we stop publishing books right now and you live to be 4500 years old (50 life times) you’ll still not read everything there is to read!

假设有50个一辈子都没有读过书的人，那然后有200个专家选出了这50个人首先应该读的好书，我拿我拥有的一切来打赌，这些专家挑出来的书，这50个人肯定都不喜欢。
世界上的书太多了，就算你一直都在读书，书也是读不完的，实际上，如果那50个人一辈子都在读书，那读的书也没有出版的书多。即使我们立即停止出版图书，你拥有50次生命，你也读不完世界上的书。

So, the idea that I or anyone can pin point which books are best for you is absolutely rubbish - even though very popular question to ask.
If you are just beginning, I highly recommend you go to your local library and ask how many books you can get out (I can get 12), then just look around the library and just randomly pick 12 books. Go home, or sit in the library and start reading. If one feels interesting, just try to finish it. If you went home with 12 books and you hate them all, return them and repeat the process.

因此，尽管这个问题很受欢迎。但不管是我还是其他人指出来哪本书是对你而言最好的书，其实都是废话。
如果你刚刚开始读书，我强烈建议你去当地的图书馆，问一下你可以借多少本书（我可以借12本书），然后在图书馆随机挑选12本书。回家或直接坐在图书馆里开始读。如果你觉得一本书很有趣，那就读完它。如果你把这十二本书带回家了，发现自己都不感兴趣，那就重新再去图书馆借书。

(Everyone recommends Harry Potter, for me is nothing special. If I recommend few books to you and like me with Potter, you hate my recommendations, you might conclude reading is rubbish. And your conclusion would be perfectly logical! If you ask readers to recommend the best book they can think of, and they recommend something you find shit, then “If this is the best book … fuck it I’m not reading any more”)

每个人都推荐哈利·波特，但是这本书对我来说没什么特别的。如果我向你推荐的书，你也觉得没什么特别的话，那么你就会讨厌我的建议，你可能会得出结论认为阅读什么用都没有。并且在这种情境下你的结论是完全合乎逻辑的！如果你要求读者推荐他们认为最好的书，然后他们推荐了你认为是垃圾的书，于是会想如果这是最好的书的话，那我就不读书了.

WHY IS READING SO IMPORTANT?
I am an idiot!
Absolute idiot.

为什么阅读如此重要？
其实我真的是个白痴。绝对是！
我说过很多人都是白痴。举个例子：我说过特朗普是个白痴，但我觉得我才是真正的白痴。其他人可能把我当傻子耍，所以我才是真正的白痴。

I say that many people are idiots. I say Trump is an idiot for example, but I’m the only idiot that I fully am aware of. Other idiots might be acting like idiots just to fool me, but I’m the genuine one.
There are many ways to cure myself from my idiocy. I could go to university, get a doctorate in one field then another in another field. Or I could travel the world. Or I could hang out with important people. I could hang out with the Pope and get him to tell me the history of the Vatican. I could hang out with a lesbian and learn how hard it is to be a lesbian in a country that doesn’t treat LGBT people well.
I could do all that if I had the money, time, influence and, lets face it, if I could be bothered.Or I could get the similar knowledge from books.And all that can be found in fiction and non fiction.So I think reading is important an an easy attempt to understand the world and yourself.

有很多方法可以让自己不那么愚蠢。我可以上大学，在一个领域获得博士学位，然后再在另一个领域获得博士学位。或者我可以环游世界。或者我可以和厉害的人散步。我可以和教皇一起散步，让他和我说梵蒂冈的历史。我可以和一个女同性恋者一起散步，我会了解到生活在不接受同性恋人群的国家，当一个女同性恋者是非常难的。如果我有足够的金钱，时间，影响力，我可以做所有的事情。让我们面对现实吧。我可以从书籍中获得类似的知识。所有这些知识都可以在书中获得，因此，我认为阅读很重要，这是一种轻松了解世界和自己的方法。

Don’t put reading in a pedestal. A lot of people do it but don’t. Take it easy. Books have all sorts of information and stories. Some of those stories you will love, some you’ll hate, some of the information will teach you exactly what you always wanted some will be rubbish (Books on how to grow flowers - no thank you!).

不要对书籍一概而论。很多人这么想，也有人不这么想。慢慢来，书里包含了很多信息和故事。有些故事你喜欢，但是另外的一些你可能不喜欢，你可能从书中学到你一直想要的东西，有些则毫无用处（对于我来说，那些关于如何种花的书，就是无用的了，谢谢！）。

So just let your desires guide you to the books you might like.
I believe the best books teach you what you already know!
Think about that, when you’ll experience that, you’ll just know why reading is important, and you’ll not be able to articulate it any better than “they teach you what you already know” - not my original quote, many people say a similar thing.

因此，只要读你自己感兴趣的书就好了。我相信最好的书是这样的：书里面教的东西你已经了解过了。
仔细想一下，当您体验到这一点时，你就会知道阅读为什么如此重要，并且你找不到更确切的表述方法，他们教的东西你早就学过了，这不是我最先提出来的，很多人说过类似的话。
Aditya Chhabra, Voracious Reader 爱好读书

Reading books is very important for the personal development of a person because it exposes you to new ideas, perspectives, and literary styles. Sure, you can learn a lot by reading articles, short stories, and watching video content, but reading books exposes your brain to long form ideas.
Reading an article about tax policy will just give you the gist and a basic idea about that concept. On the other hand, reading a book will expose you to a long form idea that covers the meat of the subject that will help you truly understand the idea. If you want to learn something deeply, books are always the best option. Additionally, sticking to a book and finishing it will develop your attention span and give you a tremendous sense of self satisfaction and accomplishment.

读书对于个人发展是至关重要的，读书可以让你了解到新思想、新观点、了解新文学风格，当然你也可以通过读文章、看短篇故事、以及看视频学到很多东西，但是只有读书能够让你沉下心来阅读长篇大论。
一篇关于税收政策的文章，只会告诉你文章主旨和基本概念。而书籍则会详细论述，它涵盖了主题的实质，这将帮助你真正理解这个概念。如果你想了解得更加深入，书籍是你的最佳选择。除此之外，坚持读完一本书可以帮助你集中注意力，给你极大的自我满足感和成就感。

It is difficult to recommend books to you without knowing what you like to read about, but I’ll recommend a few below:
· How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
· An American Life (Ronald Reagan)
· The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
· Basic Economics (Thomas Sowell)
· Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist (Roger Lowenstein)
· Washington: A Life (Ron Chernow)

在不知道你喜欢读什么书的情况下，向你推荐书籍是很难的，我准备推荐以下几本：
1、人性的弱点（戴尔·卡内基）
2、一个美国人的生活（罗纳德·里根）
3、源泉（Ayn Rand）
4、基础经济学（托马斯·索厄尔）
5、巴菲特传：一个美国资本家的成长（罗杰·洛文斯坦）
6、华盛顿的一生（罗恩·切尔诺）

Sanjay Singh
Books made me think that I am capable to write this answer.
What if I ask you what is the importance of your girlfriend/boyfriend and why you always get attracted to opposite gender?
Your answer will be like “ they are the very important character that we need in our life. We are human being and we do have feeling and we do take care of that. What ever the curcumstance there is, we need this and we have to make this.”
So the same for your answer.

读书让我觉得我是有能力来回答这个问题的。
如果我问你的男朋友或者女朋友重要在哪里，以及你为什么会被异性吸引？
你的答案可能是，“他们是我生命中非常重要的一部分，我们都是人类，我们会有感觉，我们也非常重视这种感觉，不管发生什么，我们都需要对象，我们也必须这么做。”
所以我用同样的逻辑回答你的问题。

Believe me I am not lying, the most of the knowledge and understanding that I have achieved till now are from the books whether it be academic books or other non academic.
In reality I learned to read, write, and do simple calculations from academic books. I learned about alphabets and number from the school as a foundation and that's all.

相信我我没有说谎，到目前为止，我学到的知识或者说我自己对事物的理解，大部分都是从书中获得的，区别则是有些是学术书籍、有些不是学术类而已。
实际上，我从学校学习了数字和字母，打下了基础，然后我从学术书籍中学会了阅读、写作和简单的计算。

My school books taught me theories and little expert calculations which I am not going to use in real life until my death. They taught me that the society is good and they respect you with degree and all, but never taught me that all the ethics and rules that I am giving you is the biggest lie ever. They never taught that the society will slap you again if you face your left side after getting a slap in right side of your face. They taught me that I you read nicely you will get a decent job and decent salary but they never taught me how to become a boss and earn salary in the form of profit. They taught me to search for decent job but never taught me how to create a job and employ other people. They taught me to become employee not a employer.

我的教科书教会我理论和一些专业的计算方法，在我死之前，这些知识在现实中都用不着。他们告诉我社会是美好的，不管是在学历还是其他方面我都是被尊重的，从来没有人告诉我，所有的道德和准则是他们最大的谎言。他们从来没有说过，如果我右脸挨了一巴掌，社会会再扇你一巴掌。他们告诉我，如果你学习成绩好，你可以有一份体面的工作和体面的薪水，但他们从来没有教过我怎么样成为老板，怎么样获取利润来谋生。他们教我如何找体面的工作，但从未教过我如何创造工作机会和雇用其他人。他们教会我成为员工而不是老板。

But when I read non- academic books I came to know that the path that I was on was crowded and there was not a single space where I can rest my even a single foot since each and every new born child was on the same path. I was able to distinguish that I meant to follow something else. I had to go a path bit different but the same destination. As everyone’s goal is to earn money.
So, after all books are the only one friend, tutor, explorer and my everything. Books lets me explore the world without even going to that place. So for me books are everything.
I suggest you read

但是当我读一些非学术性的书时，我发现我所走的路是拥挤的，我没有地方可以落脚休息，我必须不断前进，因为每个人的起跑线相同。我能意识到被其他的事物指引着前进。我必须走一条不同的路，但最终通往同一个目的地。每个人的目标都是赚钱。
所以，对我而言，书是唯一的朋友，导师，书给了我足不出户就能探索世界的机会。所以对我来说，书就是一切。
我建议你也养成读书的习惯。
Jahmal Abbott, Founder, Social Telecom Solutions (2017-present) 社交电信解决方案创始人（2017年至今）

Reading is important because it liberated me from the small thinking I once had. There are some things you don’t know until you’re exposed to an idea from another point of view.
The time spent to learn from the documented lessons of others is a priceless investment. Instead of trying to figure out life on your own, you get an instant shortcut when you read.
What took a person a lifetime to figure out, you benefit by learning in a matter of days. Plus the cost to read is often a lot lower compared to the trial and error you avoid from the author’s experience.
The book I’ll recommend you start with is The Power of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. This is the first real book I read on my own and it changed my life.
After your done reading this, then think about the goals you want to accomplish in your life. This will guide you on the next books to pick up.

阅读很重要，因为书籍让我的格局变得更大。有时候换个角度看问题，你就能学到更多的东西。
花时间学习别人记录下来的教训也是一种投资。不是为了弄清楚自己的生活，你在阅读的时候可以学到了解到很多生活的捷径。
一个人可能需要花一辈子的时间去搞清楚的事情，你花几天时间读一本书就能了解清楚。另外，阅读成本通常要比作者试错的经验成本要低得多。
我建议您开始阅读的书是Norman Vincent Peale博士撰写的《积极思考的力量》。 这是我读的真正意义上的第一本书，这本书改变了我的生活。
读完后，你可以认真思考你想要实现的目标。这个目标会给你如何选择读下本书带来方向。
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Aisha Khan, Seo Executive (2019-present)
Books Play an important role in our life. We get lots of knowledge about different topics. if we want to get anything like an essay, presentations, etc we just open the book & get the topic that we want. we can say that books are a real friend of our life. Reading a book is really a good habit because we can improve our pronunciation and every day we learn a new single word or more at least and day by day we learn so many things about different topics. Even I am also a book reader. every day I can read a book before sleeping & every day & I learn something new.

书在我们的生活中扮演着重要的角色。我们在书中可以学习方方面面的知识。如果我们想获得论文，演讲等相关内容，我们只需要查看相关主题的书籍就好了。我们可以说书是我们一生中的真正朋友。读书确实是一个好习惯，因为可以改善我们的发音，如果每天学习一个或多个新单词，那么积少成多，一天天下来也会学习很多关于不同主体的知识。我也喜欢读书。每天睡觉前我都会读一本书，每天我都可以学到新东西。
Gaby Chapman, former Language Arts Teacher (2000-2009) 前语言艺术老师（2000-2009年）

On a grander scale, reading is important because it is education and an educated citizenry makes informed contributions to society. But, hey, reading is hallowed because it is just so much fun. You can live a narrow lane or you can live the whole wide world, yesterday, today and tomorrow. Try “The Glass Castle” by Jeanette Walls, “The Bees: a Novel” by Laline Paul, “A Time to Kill” by John Grisham, “Atonement” by Ian McEwan, “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah.
Give yourself thirty pages and if you don’t like it, pick up the next one.

从广义上说，阅读很重要，因为阅读也是教育的一种形式，受过良好教育的公民可以为社会做出杰出的贡献。但是，阅读也是享受得一种方式，读书实在太有趣了，书籍可以带你通往狭窄的小路，也可以通往整个世界，阅读可以带你通往过去现在和未来。
你可以试着读一下珍妮特·沃尔斯的《玻璃城堡》，拉琳·保罗的《蜜蜂：小说》，约翰·格里森的《杀戮时刻》，伊恩·麦克尤恩的《赎罪》，克里斯汀·汉娜的《夜莺》。
每本书至少读三十页，如果你不喜欢这本书，那就换下一本。
Megan LeBlanc, B.S. Criminal Justice & Spanish, Freed-Hardeman University (2012) 弗里德哈德曼大学刑事司法和西班牙语学士（2012）

Reading gives you experience and perspective in situations and places that you don’t have to experience firsthand to get knowledge from.
Reading also helps you make better conversation, write better essays, and improves spelling and grammar.
Books you should start reading include anything that might interest you. What are your goals? Do you want to escape for a while? Do you want to learn something? Improve your life? Gain information on new topics or places or people? When/If you get bored, switch things up. Try different genres, authors, and age levels.
Just read, read, read!

阅读可以给你提供一个机会，你不需要亲身经历相同情境下，就可以获取别人总结出来的经验，汲取知识，提炼观点。
阅读还可以提高你的交流水平，提升你的写作能力，并改善拼写和语法水平。
你可以从你感兴趣的内容开始读，你的目标是什么？你是想要逃避吗？还是你想学点什么？你想要生活变得更美好吗？还是你想要了解新的主题、新的人物或者地点？ 如果你看一本觉得无聊的书，那就不要继续读下去了。尝试不同类型的书，不同作者的书或者不同年龄阶段所写的书。
总之一直坚持读书就对了。