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SparkyzRox
I don't know if this just resonates with me, but I feel like this piece is just beautiful. Maybe that's just me seeing more meaning in it than is actually there.
"When I suggest a book, I love to people, I try to give an immersive account of a scene that moved me, but sometimes, upon rereading the, I find out that the scene isn’t there. At the end of the day, humans are unreliable creatures, so when we feel something, more than half of it is misunderstanding, but maybe you shouldn’t interpret it in a pessimistic way and instead look at it as the author or the story having the power to make you misunderstand. If you are a reader, I’m sure you’ve experienced looking back at a book that had an impact on you and realizing that it actually wasn’t that big of a deal after all; and recommending a book that moved you in your teens to current teens, promising them that they’ll love it, and not getting a great reaction, is something we all get a taste of. That’s thanks to audience misunderstanding, or mental images if you want to put a better spin on it, and maybe instead of feeling let down, you ought to be giving thanks for the dreams the work allowed you to see. To add to that, there are those cases where whatever scene that wasn’t there upon rereading crops up in a different book, but that’s just my own sucky memory, for which no author or story is to be held responsible." - Nisioisin
If you haven't read this book, read it! It is fantastic.
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