I have crossed twenty-five and things around me have started making an all new sense but not the perfect sense. Music continues to liberate, books make for a good elixir while writing of all continues to be a sumptuous escapade. 'Revolution' remains my favourite word. I have travelled within and beyond and one thing's for sure, this journey would never end.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
This is how I put it; three stages of a book reader.
1) The initial, I would call it the 'clueless' stage, is/are the books that your syllabus suggest and you read them. You are fed these books.
2) OK! So you love what you read, you decide you want to read more and more. So you ask around, Google a bit, book reviews. I would call it the 'inquisitive stage'. You proudly call yourself an avid reader. The time element involved here is huge.
3) After going through these two stages the reader reaches a whole new level, an advanced stage. The reader learns to let go in terms of the fact that he knows what's good and what's not. What writers are exceptional and those who are mere commercial and how great a Pulitzer/Booker is.
Once you reach this stage the books take the front seat. It chooses you. You don't.
Labels:
book reviews,
Books,
Pulitzer,
readers,
reading habbits
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