mind candy

I dont remember exactaly who first inroduced the concept of mind candy, probibly my mom but it might have been someone else, but the basic idea is that while its great to read the most modern and criticaly aprovde books on the market, such as "Harry Potter" for example it is still nessesary to read the classics of litterature in order to keep a healthy, well educated mind  . The reasoning behind this is some what similar to the reasoning behind a balanced diet. Even thought they're really sweet, you can't eat donuts all day you have to eat some veggies as well. in the same respect one also needs to balance out there reading material to include both the wholesome and nutrious classics as well as the more sweet and savory new stuff. When I first heard this I thought it was kinda week argument designed to get me to read more boring stories, infact I'd still prefer Harry Potter to Charles Dickens any day but the problem is that reading the simple stuff doesn't expand your mind any. If you don't think that expanding your mind is really all that important then consider the following. J.K Rolling would never have thought of Harry Potter if she hadn't read King Author or lord of the rings. So you see the reason behind reading the classics is so you can come up with better stuff, I guess a better way to look at this is the classic are the ingredients to creating your own magnum opus.