10 Random Facts about Myself, All Related to My Experiences with Books

I’ve been in the mood to talk about books these days, yet at the same time, today is not one day when I feel like doing the most laborious writing - whatever that means. Which is why I’m going to throw around 10 random facts about my experiences with books (like what I did with videogames; and I just noticed today that I got the number in the title completely wrong - sheesh, what’s up with that?!) 

No, nobody has tagged me this time. I merely thought that writing in this format allows me to be most candid.

1. As of writing this, the last book I’ve finished is Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre.

2. I added the iRead application on my Facebook account, and right there you can view the books that I declared as my personal favorites. On top of the head, though, the books that I love are the following: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fight Club by Chuck Pahlaniuk, Native Son by Richard Wright, Battle Royale by Koushun Takumi, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, and Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. There are a lot more, but I don’t want to make this post novella-length.

3. I also read a lot of comic books, both the superhero and the non-superhero ones, and both American and Japanese ones (or manga, as the latter is called).

4. I’ve only become a voracious reader in the year 2007. Believe me, it took a while for me to make reading one of my hobbies, but once I got into it, I never looked back. I’ve read comics and mangas all my life, though.

5. I’m not very picky with genres, but I do have a soft spot for science fictions.

6. You want to know what my first comic book is? Well, Archie, of course. And my first manga? It’s Doraemon.

7. My favorite children’s books are the three books from Jonathan Stroud’s Bartimaeus Trilogy. I also really like the 3rd and the 4th Harry Potter book.

8. So this might incense some, but here are my 3 least favorite books: Bait by Karen Robards, Digital Fortress by Dan Brown, and The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho. I do not dislike the last one as much as the other two, but yes, I don’t like it.

9. I’m of the belief that Neil Gaiman writes comics better than he writes novels.

10. Just for the record, I don’t think that just because someone reads a lot it automatically makes him/her more productive than someone who plays a lot of videogames or watches a lot of TV. The thing is, however, that having the right choice of books will let a person understand the world more than s/he could through other medium.