Books and Manga

I like reading books and manga. Reading gives me a way to escape my own reality and enter the lives of the characters. Learning about how the different characters interact with each other and the decisions that they make makes reading exciting. Additionally, it is important for the story to make sense.

While reading some of the Russian classics, I was frustrated about how long the books were and how a lot of the details did not seem to be relevant to the overall story. However when I watched the movie interpretations, most of the details were lost and it made me realize that there is a certain feeling or purpose to the excessive detail. In this particular case, it made the story more interesting and invokes more of the reader’s imagination – I thought the movie was rather bland since it simply went through the story hitting each of the plot points.

That being said, I enjoy watching TV and movies as well. The main reason I don’t like watching them as much as reading is because the time commitment. Movies and TV shows can take many hours to complete whereas a manga chapter can take very little time to complete. Books take a while to read as well, so maybe I like reading manga more than reading books.

In general, I like getting introduced to stories. I wish I was a good storyteller, but I don’t usually have very many stories to tell and I wouldn’t say that I’m a very good speaker or conversationalist.

I have preferences on what I read and watch. I like exciting stories with action, adventure, and magic / superpowers. However, I also enjoy slice of life stories as well. I have preferences about drawing styles, but the story is what ultimately keeps me reading. One thing that I have found funny recently is the names of some of these manga. Like they are such long names and they describe exactly what is going on that it is funny. One such title is “A Story About Treating a Female Knight Who Has Never Been Treated as a Woman as a Woman”. Like there could definitely be a better title for this, but this is the translated title and it accurately describes the premise of the story.

I like discussing some of the more popular things I read with people I know and it is cool to hear their perspectives on things that I may have glossed over or simply thought differently about. One problem with me though is my memory for these types of things is not that great. Like after reading One Piece for years, my memory about the details of their journey is quite bad. I know the gist of most of the stories I read, but remembering the details is not something that comes quickly – especially if I hadn’t thought about that story in a while.

I’m willing to provide some of my manga suggestions if anyone is interested. I won’t say that my taste is that great, but I think I’ve read a lot of relatively decent things by now. Some of my peers mentioned that I could use the blog to rate stuff, such as anime or manga. I will definitely consider that. However, I think rating manga is different than rating movies because there are a lot of chapters. It seems like some TV shows are rated on an episode basis and then an overall series basis. I read too many things to rate something on a chapter basis, so I guess I could rate stuff as a series and give a brief explanation for my rating. If the thing I rate is an ongoing series, then I can update the rating if necessary.