Helen: Reading a book is the intellectual equivalent of investing money: you' re investing time, thereby foregoing other ways of spending that time, in the hope that what you learn will later afford you more opportunities than you' d get by spending the time doing something other than reading that book  Randi: But that applies only to vocational books
Reading fiction is like watching a sitcom: it' s just wasted time
disputing the scope of Helen's analogy by presenting another analogy