"On the Dangers of Reading Fiction

In his letter, “On the Dangers of Reading Fiction,” Thomas Jefferson expresses his disapproval towards reading fiction.  He compares fiction to poison and states, “When this poison infects the mind, it destroys its tone and revolts it against wholesome reading.” He goes on to say that because of the embellishments that are put in fiction, the reader then rejects “the real businesses of life” because their imagination has been filled with fictitious ideas.Personally, I rarely engage in reading, yet I do not agree with his views, I would rather read fiction and experience the creativity of the author’s mind than sit and read about how the Europeans took over America, we hear enough of that in school why would I want to bore myself by reading that.