Does reading make us more "human" ???

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A debate has erupted over whether reading fiction makes human beings more moral. But what if its real value consists in something even more fundamental?

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/a...

[V.W.]

I don't think so. We very quickly learn to filter the kind of reading we enjoy and undertake. I have never read any Great Expectations, Madame Bovary, or Death of a Salesman.

As a child I read many WW2 biographies, science fiction, historical war novels (including War and Peace), Lobsang Rampa, Doc Savage, Tarzan and the other ERB novels, Robert E. Howard, and a lot of erotica, including the Marquis de Sade, plus many many comics.

Reading has helped me explore and understand my character and personality, but I highly doubt it shaped it.