Who is to say if that is politically correct, but I think your statement is certainly wrong. > If you are willing to invest your time in reading - then any boo

Who is to say if that is politically correct, but I think your statement is certainly wrong. > If you are willing to invest your time in reading - then any book that is being targeted by the current culture war is very likely to be an inefficient use of your time. Focus on books that will generate maximum value for you to become a productive member of society, who can be rewarded for the value that you bring to an organization, or learn topics that will enable you to build a business that provides value to paying customers. The article is about a book being banned in middle school. If you were in grade 8 concerned with whether the books you are reading will give direct profit to an organization, more power to you. But this isn’t the way that the majority of eighth graders think (nor the way that they should think). The value of fiction books may be less direct that non-fiction reference (to which I assume you are referring, happy to be corrected), but the value is there nevertheless. A great banned fiction book is To Kill A Mockingbird- it has strong themes of right and wrong, justice, and of youth. Though I may have not identified those directly when I read it (in ~grade 8), it was fascinating and made me very excited to read. Just because the value is longer term, doesn’t mean that it is of lower value.