Friday, August 1, 2014

Reading Second Book - Imagine the Rest of the Story

          As I mentioned in first post about my second book, it is a detective book. I borrowed it from my illegal ex-roommate and started reading it interestingly. It was a nostalgia for me and returned me back to my childhood, when I was reading the detective stories in the Police Magazine.This sense rapidly replaced with another sweet emotion. I could make common sense of concept with the antagonist and could imagine that it is me who narrates the story. Actually I have never been a crime detector but during the reading, I was thinking that it is my story and I admire the writer duo to making this strongly conceptual connection between me and the story.
          I can't generalize it but I personally like to be in the situation of antagonists. When I read the story, I imagine the scene that the writer designs by detailed descriptions. Reading the words those carry strong emotions, I can put myself emotionally in that especial situation that Mr. Taylor experiences. I like this playing and enjoy reading by imagination all the details. It helps me continue reading but there is another side effect. Not completely undesirable, overwhelming into the story distracts me and leads me to make a new story beside the main story. Sometimes I unconsciously stop reading and imaging the rest of the story in the way that I create. I learned to think about the rest of a novel in my desire way when I was 12 years old, being a student in the fifth grade. My teacher used to interrupt in reading textbooks and force us think about the rest of the text based on our imagination. She was trying to improve our ability in creative thinking and I think she was successful.

1 comment:

  1. How interesting -- your teacher was very smart!

    I'm glad you're enjoying the book. I think that should be one of the main reasons for writing books -- to give pleasure to readers and give them a break fro their lives.

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