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I liked the article “Who Cares if Johnny Can’t Read.” First off, I was shocked when she said that Americans are reading much more than they did about fifty or so years ago. I would think it would be totally opposite because of the technology era and TV shows. Yes Twilight and Harry Potter are totally fiction books that could never ever happen in real life, but that fantasy life is what attracts audiences. Last summer when Twilight was becoming huge, if you asked any girl what the best part of the book was, she would say "Edward Cullen is ridiculously good looking." Now tell me, how can a character in a book be ridiculously good looking? The bottom line is even though these books don’t help our vocabulary or our understanding of the economical world, they get people thinking and imagining and that’s the biggest thing any book can do!