My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.
The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
I always love novels that open up a subject to me - like raising a window to a beautiful, mysterious world outside.
In particular, I'm drawn to the stories that have big, high concepts and real characters at their heart. And I love where those two worlds meet, and 'Edge of Tomorrow' is the perfect canvas to explore that.
When I read books, I actually really love imagining whomever I want to in the character's role. I get such vivid pictures on my own that that is a big part of the experience for me.
The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.
Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.
Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be told. I love watching a plot unfold, and feeling the surprise when the unexpected happens.
'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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