Books that were important to me and why.

Most often we hear, many people dislike reading esspecially young teenagers in this fast moving technology and modern world. The thought of reading itself makes them feeling lifeless and boring. Even parents do not have the initiative to cultivate the habit of reading in their children's daily life. Why is this kind of "dislike for books" symptoms been clearly seen existing in many people's life nowadays? This is perhaps not a positive sign, as we are all aware that books are one of the very good tool for gaining knowledge and also improving our language. In another word, books are "food" for the brain. Not like Japan who are very well known for their pleasure in reading, we Malaysians prefer to be like a "couch potato" and munch our favourite tid-bits in front of the television rather than grabbing a book at home. As i have stressed, reading is definitely important and cultivating the habit of reading from young would also help alot in improving our language, writing skills and also knowledge gaining.
When i was in kinder garden, i remembered the first book that i read was the series of "Peter and Jane" from the "Ladybird". That was when i first learned to read. As i grew up, i switched to "Enid Blyton" books in my upper primary. As i grew up a little more older, i read short and simple novels such as "the famous five" and books from "the sweet valleys" in my secondary level. This books were really important to me that time, because it has really gave me alot of ideas and thus helped me improve my writing skills and language. There were also Encyclopedia's that my parents had got me that time which had helped me in gaining and broadening my knowledge esspecially in the Science subjects. Basically, all these books were important to me when i was young because it was the starting point for me to boost up my passion in reading.
However, when i was after my Spm, my taste on the types of books changed tremendously. I was more into books by Nicholas Sparks, Stephen King, Sydney Sheldon and many more. But, out of the many books i've read throughout the years, there is one particular book that is very important and precious to me. The book is entitled " A Walk to Remember" by Nicholas Sparks. This story is about love between a notorious guy and an angelic-hearted girl and how in the later part she has changed his life. The heroin in this story is a daughter of a baptist minister and how her humble and gentle character has changed many even those who had ill-treated her. This novel is very important and meaningful to me because it has even changed my character tremendously. I had become more humble and patient and even learn possessing the spirit of forgiveness ever since i read this novel. There is also another book which is very important to me, which is called "William Shakespeare's complete work" This book was a gift to me from my parents and it is so important to me because it has all the titles of novels by Shakespeare. It has given me the passion to be interested in literature and thus help me to pursue studying literary works more. Without that book, i wouldn't have found my passion in literature.
In my life, i've never been deprived from any books, because when it comes to books and education, my parents will never fail to fulfill my needs. People who do not like reading and thinks that reading is boring, should scrap that thinking out of their mind at once. It's time for them to change their mindset and start cultivating the habit of reading.