Is it for fun ? What can a novel tell us or add to our experience as humans?
Who are ur favorite authors and unforgettable titles ? What are the thoughts and lessons that u get out of a novel reading . Let's discuss it here together my friends . However , when speaking about myself I can tell many things , but the most important lesson is that " the unity and similarity of the human experience , wether in the Amzon jungles or Dubia skyscrapers , deep inside we are equal and without classification or labels "
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Dear Onee-chan ,
Some people think that reading novel is a time loss , while they are ignorant of how much they can get out of reading novels . They are a pure and sincere reflection of human experience in different kinds of levels . In novels special the ones writing by professional writers you can find not only a serious of events leading to the clamix but deep philosophy and real history . I have read more than 100 novels in my language and Russian novels are my favorite . But I will tell you about my first novel , which was a complex love story between an artist who lost his hand in the Alegria fight aganist France .
Painting was his refugee and his beloved women resembles the whole nations he was defending years ago . I like the author Ahlam Mostagnami and consider her to be my mentor :)
Dear Rosemary,
Why do I read novels? I read novels to take a lesson about life without having experience. So,
What is the unforgettable one? It is Billy 24-multiple personality, Indonesian version.
What I got? I like psychology. So, this gave me a lot of information how to understand people who has multiple personality. There are also many terms I have just known from reading this novel. It's a thick book, I don't remember how many pages, and it's not easy to understand as it is serious psychological non-fiction novel. But I can finished it in one month. I read this before joining MyEC, I just know that he died in December 2014.
Thank you so much for this nice discussion.
What is your most unforgettable novel, Rosemary? :)
If only.
That absolutely right :)
Exercising your imagination, expanding your vocabulary and exploring humanity is not a waste of time. Now if you read harlequin novels, or sub standard commercialized crap then yes, it is a waste of time. Reading real literature, by any of the classic and timeless authors is well worth the time.
Thanks for being here Tam :) about reading English books and high forms of literature they are difficult even for native . U can read summaries of these pieces and get the whole benefit of them with some quotes . As u have mentioned reading stimulate the experience I think it also makes us feel younger and fill our minds with energy :)
Hi, Rosemary. I like reading books. It gives me a simulated experience that I can't experience in real life and knowledge. As for English books, I can't read difficult books yet, so I read easy and famous books for children. However they are interesting.
They give us more understanding of our reality , don't u agree Mary that some writers have the talent to make us understand ourselves better. Know what's really beyond our behaviors or explain things we can't express about ourselves
To escape from reality... so you can say books are like drugs.
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