A true work of literature is timeless In the modern world reading is a necessary part of our life. We read every day: we flip through magazines and newspapers full of interesting tit-bits, we browse articles on the Internet, we wade through textbooks and non-fiction, we look up unknown words in dictionaries, we dip into some compelling fiction stories to unwind and recharge our batteries. Even if you aren’t consider yourself as a very well read person and reading is not your cup of tea, you have to face written information every day. Moreover, reading books may be really engaging and breathtaking. Reading non-fiction books, high-brow literature, encyclopedias, memoirs and biographies of great people helps us to broaden our horizons and get smarter, reading enigmatic whodunits and chilling thrillers, unputdownable fairytales and novels makes us develop our imagination. I really love reading books. In my childhood I read hundreds books in different genres and I was crazy about it. If you ask me about my favorite book, it is difficult to answer, because each story is unique and reading any of them leaves special feelings. I’d like to tell about “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov. This book is special for me; I think it has changed my mind. The book contains two settings, which are connected with each other. One plot of the book takes place in Moscow of the thirties, and the other one indirectly refers to the bible story. When I was 12, I tried to read it for the first time, and it seemed to me really heavy-going and I hardly could get into it, but when I read it for the second time, it appeared to be a page-turner and compulsive reading for me. The book is perfectly written, it’s full of macabre and chilling events, evocative things, and sometimes the author makes us read between the lines. After I read “The Master and Margarita” from cover to cover, I began to see new things in other books. Reading books is really important to comprehend things better. Now reading traditional books is not so popular, electronic books are replacing them, and more and more people prefer to watch a film rather then read a book. However, there are still a lot of people who are obsessed with reading. Some of masterpieces of literature are timeless and couldn’t be replaced by something else. Maybe the age of paper books is coming to an end; I believe that literature as art will exist forever.