Thread:Hyocaso/@comment-27247829-20160418000755/@comment-28048698-20160418002228

You can recommend me any book you want. ^^ Who knows, maybe I would like them to. To be honest I don't have a an specific genre, and sometimes I even know how to appreciate the small good things inside the bad works. One example of this: many years ago I read the entire Twilight saga (yeah, the one with the shinies vampires) because many persons around me recommended it to me. And even when the story by itself wasn't great for me, and that I can give a very hard critic about the book, I must admit that some few, little things were acceptable for me. Specially some characters (and no, never Bella or Edward, those two are a couple of Mary Sue and Gary Stu).

I really love Tales of the Otori. In the first place, it was great how Lian Hearn wrote about the feudal japanese culture and how they hated the christians. Also, it was a beautiful reading: it was very detailed, but not too deep or complex like Lord of the Rings (the first book of LOTR was so hard to read for me). And another thing I loved was how she created the prologue (the book #0, let's say) after the main three books. Why? Because that kind of strategy create a lot of feelings in the reader. We know what is going to happen (because we read the first three books that are chronologically after this), so when we see a happy or beautiful thing we feel a little frustration and sadness. Or we can see a sad thing and jus smile and said to ourself "Hehe, this will be fix later". This is the same thing Type Moon used with Fate/Zero.

Now, about the phisically books... To be honest, there are two main reason because I read them phisically. First, the "practical" reason. I CAN't read if I have my cellphone or computer near me, just can't. I'll distract myself with ANYTHING (youtube, skype, games, etc). So I read when I am out of my house (in the university, in the subway, and things like that). Second, the... eh... "sentimental" reason? In my opinion, like you said, there is some kind of special sensation when you have the book in your hands, when you smell the paper, when you flip the pages, there are a lot of sensation that a digital copy can't give you. And I love those things.