Post #2: What is a book?

A book is a soul. The book as an object is a mere material used in furthering your knowledge, but the internal values of the book are immense, and intangible. You can't just imagine what the story is telling you, and picture it in your head. That would make reading much more of a chore than it may or may not already be. You have to be, as much of a cliché as it may be, one with the book. You have to let the book take hold of you, steal your mind. Books aren't just a story, they're mini adventures. All the author wants to do is to bring you along with him/her on their fictional or nonfictional memory. How many times have you read an entire book and not, at some point throughout the story, been completely and entirely drawn in to the reading?