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What Makes Books Great Rule #6:

Great books are entertaining.

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What Makes Books Great Rule #5:

Great books make you question what you believe in.

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What Makes Books Great Rule #4:

Great books show you a better way to understand the world.

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What Makes Books Great Rule #3:

Great books show you a future both terrifying and eerily realistic.

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What Makes Books Great Rule #2:

Great books have characters that feel so real that when they die it's like you've lost a friend.

Rule #1,067 (Beginning of What Makes Books Great Theme Week)

 I'm an avid reader, and some books just have a tendency to draw you and captivate you.  In honor of such wonderful books, I'm writing a week's worth of rules concerning things books do that make them equal to more than the sum of their parts.

What Makes Books Great Rule #1:

Great books have such an interesting world setting that the background itself becomes a character.

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Situps are hard, too.