My looks do not define me-Part 5

Hello, again sorry for the lack of updates I do have ideas for stuff to write about but actually sitting down and writing has proved difficult recently. I thought it was a good while since I did one of these features, so this time I'm going to talk about my love of reading. My parents love to read and so that was passed on to me any my brother. Whilst I don't read as much as I used to due to my unhealthy habit of going on my laptop rather than reading before bed I still enjoy it. I've started reading on the train in the morning and going home in the evening rather than just sitting listening to music. My parents got me a kindle for Christmas which is pretty great but I still like physical books as well.

I don't really have a favourite genre of book, I like fantasy, sci-fi, action, detective stories and stories about the law (John Grisham, Scott Turrow etc.) among others. I still read young adult stories and I don't think they should be looked down on. It did depress me whenever the Twilight craze was at its peak and you would look at the young adult/teenage section only to see it filled with Twilight clones. Though now it seems to have moved on to  future dystopias such as the Hunger Games and the Divergent series. Though if it means that people are reading then that's  a good thing.

Of course on the other hand you have the catch 22 that many of these series are being turned into big budget movies, on one hand that may mean that people go back and read the books, on the other hand they might just decide to watch the movies. As much as I enjoyed movies such as the Harry Potter ones, the first Hunger Games (haven't seen the others yet), I think they do miss some of the things that make the books so good for example being able to read character's thoughts, not to mention the fact that they are not limited by budget or poor cgi/effects. Also the movies do sometimes make changes to the source material, some good, some not so good, I didn't get one change made to the end of the final Harry Potter movie compared to what happened in the book.

If you asked me to name my favourite books I would find it very difficult as I have read so many. Obviously I've already mentioned the Harry Potter series, there's also the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness (starting with Monsters of Men) which is a young adult series that I really enjoyed and I plan to go back and read along with the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman. Dexter is probably known by most people as a tv show but it is based off a book.which is part of it's own series. The books and tv show each have different story lines so you do not need one to enjoy the other. I'm reading the latest book at the moment which I'm enjoying. Ender's Game is a book I really enjoyed but its sequels are very different, I enjoyed Speaker for the dead, the third book Xenocide is good but gets bogged down in hypothetical and theoretical physics at times, the final book in the Ender saga is in my pile of books to read. As for my favourite author if it's anyone it would probably be Colin Bateman if only for his writing really appealing to my sense of humour.


Thanks for reading

This is actually smaller than the pile of books I have to read