What makes a good book a good book?
I just finished Eragon today and I really liked it. I read it in two days. Mostly last night. I was willing to suffer through today on 3 hours of sleep for what? To run my eyes over a million little symbols choreographed in lines on pages? It seems very unlikely considering I had to work the next day at 8 am.
What in the world would make someone this crazy as to stay up until 5 am reading a strange mystical fantasy tale when he hates fantasy in the first place? I considered this for a long time and came up with, what I think, is a really good explanation.
The stronger your emotional connection is to the book, the more you see yourself in the story line. It's a way of communicating otherwise un-communicatable things in your life. Its an easy way for someone else to put words in your mouth, but you get to pick and chose which ones. It's a way to live your life's dream "Soaring in the sky with a dragon" if you are unable to.
Books are the best form of therapy man has ever known.
What in the world would make someone this crazy as to stay up until 5 am reading a strange mystical fantasy tale when he hates fantasy in the first place? I considered this for a long time and came up with, what I think, is a really good explanation.
The stronger your emotional connection is to the book, the more you see yourself in the story line. It's a way of communicating otherwise un-communicatable things in your life. Its an easy way for someone else to put words in your mouth, but you get to pick and chose which ones. It's a way to live your life's dream "Soaring in the sky with a dragon" if you are unable to.
Books are the best form of therapy man has ever known.
posted by Bzola | 5:06 PM
1 Comments:
I don't think I've met many boys that think that. Wow. I found a good book (It's called "Twilight") over spring break and I read it in two nights...I read it for 4 hours AFTER I got home on Friday night. (My english homework didn't get done because of it, but oh well. =D)
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