Introduction
People have taken the effort to move verbal communication to print. This opened up a world of entertainment, instruction, communication, and comfort. Without books and the stories they entail, there would be little foundation for the world that exists today. Many students learn about a man named Gutenberg in school. His claim to fame was his invention of the printing press. This substitution for handwriting books to be shared was the first step to the society of blogs, social media, self-published books, and award winning novels that now exists. What people sometimes fail to recognize is that one invention could not possibly be the entire cause of a global breakthrough. The reason people love to read is not because of the wonder they feel at the idea of words being printed on paper. People love stories. They love becoming so engrossed in the worlds authors build that they forget where they are. It is quite astonishing when you are reading a book and a sound or a noise snaps you out of a somewhat trance like state. When that happens you look up to realize you are not on an adventure catching bad guys, but sitting quietly at home. Also, this is when you turn back to the book so you can relive that adventure. Books are not friends. Books are not simply mass produced collections of words. Books are accounts of people, real and fictional, who mesmerize the public. That is what will be discussed in this blog. Pretty long introduction, right? Don't worry, I tend to write a lot more than this.
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