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Thank you We sneak Stop worrying and love the book

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Lala shmoop it's two days into school year and zach

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is already freaking out about his english class tomtom tuong

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dozens of upperclassmen have told him that one of the

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books will be required to read is terrible horrible just

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really really bad way would be zach a word of

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advice if we may stop worrying and love the book

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ever But what does that mean Well there are all

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kinds of reasons why we might worry about a book

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in advance of or while reading it but we can't

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let worry stop us from reading let's look at the

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reason the prospect of reading a book might scare the

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heck out of us say the book that zach that

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terrified has been assigned to read is gabrielle garcia marquez

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love in the time of cholera Zach being a sophisticated

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soul has read garcia marquez in the past specifically the

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novel one hundred years of solitude that kate is this

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book he hated it so hard as a result he

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doesn't want to read anything else by garcia marquez Something

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feels really wrong about this picture The thing zack doesn't

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realize is that love in the time of cholera and

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one hundred years of solitude are very different books They're

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so different like night and day chalk and cheese part

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of zack would stop wigging out about the fact that

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his last experience with garcia marquez's novel was bad long

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enoughto open love in the time of cholera and start

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reading Well he might find that he loves the book

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the way its hero florentino loves the beautiful for meena

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All right what if zach is asked to read charles

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dickens a tale of two cities a novel that every

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person who's ever talked to has declared dull deadly dull

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Well given the book's reputation amongst its peers it makes

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perfect sense that zach would be worried about this particular

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reed However zach is forgetting that everyone is different tastes

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when it just a literature If he would ignore what

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everyone else says about a tale of two cities long

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enough to get into the story while he might discover

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that he really connects with the tragic but so totally

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awesome sydney carton eh he might find that he unlike

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the rest of his high school actually loves the heck

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out of a tale of two cities i have tended

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to city all right so what if zac's english teacher

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tells her class to read interview with the vampire Yes

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this is improbable but maybe the school board consists entirely

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of van rice fans and bam party You never know

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At any rate zach starts reading the book and hey

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he likes it up until the moment he runs headlong

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into the character of claudia the undead brat He finds

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that he despises this chick so much he can't bear

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to continue reading Well this happens with books Sometimes we're

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cruising along perfectly happy and we run into a snag

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or brad it could be a character we don't like

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or an over abundance of typos in the tax or

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a plot development that makes no sense even if we

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find one or more things That we don't like in

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a book chances are there's also at least one thing

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in the novel we like or maybe even love So

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zach put that hatred for claudia aside she'll be toast

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literally All right well there are lots of reasons we

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might be worried about reading a book Maybe we don't

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like the author's other works Maybe the book has really

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terrible reviews on amazon Maybe we've started reading the book

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and there's this one itsy bitsy tiny thing that bugs

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are so much we really wanted just picture book property

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room and call it quits consider that my two weeks

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notice Well it doesn't matter what the issue is we've

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got a book to read and the best thing we

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can do is stop freaking out and find atleast one

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thing about the boat that we can enjoy maybe the

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book imparts an important lesson one we've never encountered in

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literature before Thing is we'll never get that novel behind

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us or discover there's something in it worth admiring until

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we put our worries aside and accept the book for

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what it is Zack pull up a comfy chair and

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get a cold beverage you've gotta book peruvian friend And

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if you just give it a chance you might find

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that you love it And it may love you back 00:04:12.155 --> [endTime] on let's Just keep this platonic Never

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