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Commenting on Vigile's "any suggestion on what I can read next?" entry
11:23 PM April 09, 2008

*sorry... it was starting to get too long for a comment. You can skip this one if you guys like. ^^*

I'm amazed. In a good way, just to clarify. We kind of read a lot of books differently don't we? (Question originally addressed to Vigile. ^^) This is one of those time-stopping *yes I'm exaggerating* moments when you realize how one set of words and ideas can be interpreted so differently by different people. Hehe.. While such things always obviously happen in reading poems, I don't usually notice such things when reading novels (as I've noticed it now). ^^ But then again, we're usually directed towards a single representation of what the whole book presents when a book is discussed in class, most likely our teacher's interpretation. S/he directs us to the lines and ideas that struck him/her the most and by discussing it enough, we start to see how s/he first sees the line or idea or why it seems to jump out at him/her, despite the fact that we missed it entirely when we were reading the book on our own. I wonder how we would have interpreted the English Patient if we both read it on our own? ^^ Fascinated. Intrigued.

For instance, I didn't particularly find striking lines in the book Beauty, but when I talked to Vigile, she said there was a lot. (Is there still a lot now that you've read it twice? Just curious. Hehe..) And I think I can get really sympathetic with certain characters, to the point of near tears (note the word near, not actual), and I can severely dislike certain characters for reasons as shallow as the fact that they seem "oh so perfect in every way that inconsistencies must be put up with" (*cough*Sharra*cough*Jaxom*cough*). Hehe.. I can feel Sig rolling her eyes again. ^^

Books are great aren't they? And they're even greater when you have someone you can rant to about them. Or discuss them with. Or something. XD

come fly ~ gen