| Is this a common occurrence to some, or is it just me? I just feel like Harry Potter isn't as interesting as say, Bakuman. HP is considered a childhood favorite, but I feel like I can't really jell into it like a manga. |
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| That's okay, me too. Books are much harder to digest for me. |
| I don't read any books outside of LN's and manga, so it's pretty common. |
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| I loved Harry Potter more than any manga I've ever read, but sure, man. Whatever floats your boat. Just remember that manga is a narrative-driven media whereas books cover a much wider range of genres other than anything having to do with storytelling. The former is mostly entertainment, the latter is mostly information. |
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| To each their own, yes? But i totally feel you, as i too am the type of person who reads more manga [And Light Novels] than reading an actual books. To some people, books are harder to understand and my lecturer even comments on how a book is just someone reciting the same thing over and over again and those who read it are just itching to get to the end of it and mostly skipped the unnecesarry part. |
| It's time to play the Game folks! |
| I'm more selective with the books I read but I do both. I actually have more troubles getting into a book rather than a light novel |
| I pretty much read only manga. I read some reference-type books every so often but I haven't read a novel in quite a while. |
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| Your not the only one ive only read a handful of books in my life but I go through manga non stop on a daily basis |
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| Same, I rarely read since something sucked the fun out of it, I used to enjoy reading all those childrens' books that came with cereal but as I got older it got boring. Now all I read is Manga and the odd book. |
| I live to make the impossible, possible. - Lightning, FF13 Kindness without strength will make others devour you. Strength without kindness will make you devour yourself. - nightcore34. If I could choose between knowing absolutely everything in the universe or having one normal apple to eat. I'd choose the apple. For knowing everything, means experiencing nothing. - nightcore34 The worst people are not those who do evil knowing its wrong. It's those who do wrong thinking, believing, they have the right to do so. - nightcore34 None can stand the ticking of the clock. All will fall with the Reapers knock. - nightcore34 |
| I stopped reading actual novels ages ago. It's probably because, how one of my shitty highs school teacher told me, I fail to see any specific details in novels. Like, if you ask me about a symbolic meaning of X event/item, I would have no fucking clue unless someone explains it to me. Reading has always been a problem and being bilingual fucked me up since it prevented me from being fluent in at least one of them. With manga, everything is more apparent. It's easier to understand and follow. I also tend to like the stories manga have than in novels. (Yes, I have trash taste.) |
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| I'm sure most people on this forum probably does the same as you. I personally read more online novels than manga. |
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| There's absolutely nothing wrong with that though, theres a lot of intelligent and thought provoking manga out there, such as Death Note which raises questions of morality and Monster. |
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| I read manga, graphic novels and regular novels in roughly equal measure. (And always physical books) Sometimes I'll read only manga for a little while and then other times I'll read only novels; I go through little phases. All are great mediums, but I will say I am yet to read a manga that I would consider a 10/10, whereas 1984 by George Orwell blew my mind and is absolutely a 10/10 for me, as is the graphic novel Locke and Key. |
| It comes and goes in phases for me. Some months I'll really not be into reading prose and will instead go for manga, some months it's the other way around. At the moment I'm not feeling either, and am catching up on anime. On the other hand, it has been a very long time since I read a book i.e. in dead-tree format. I've gotten very used to reading ebooks and fanfiction instead. |
| Manga is better anyway :) |
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| its the same for me................ initially i was a avid book reader but after entering into the manga world i deviated more towards manga. nowadays reading manga takes up most of my time.....so no time for novels. |
| I stopped buying novels, all I purchase is manga now. The exception being owning the Durarara light novels. |
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| A manga is a real book, a pocket size book usually. As for novels, maybe reading something else than Harry Potter and other teenager or so-called "young adult" litterature would help finding novels interesting. (to read stand-alone novels rather than series could also help) |
| Honestly, the only book series I ever read outside of the obligatory ones for school is Harry Potter. Manga definitely has more my interest, although I'm more of an anime guy nonetheless. |
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| Same..... My goodreads account is ded. .. I don't really have any new books to read atm, (I don't like ebooks) so I'm settling for mangas. |
| I read both but I read infinitely more manga than books. My Goodreads yearly goal challenge is set to 750 books but my real goal is 1000. Obviously most of those are manga and graphic novels. I still read the same amount of 'actual' books (about 2-4 a month), but I enjoy manga SO MUCH MORE. I would read all day if I could (most days anyway). |
| I read and enjoy both in equal measure, but they're different experiences. |
| Haven't read books in forever. Too lazy and most of the time I don't really care about the characters. I read manga a lot though. |
| Help the industry and buy Blu-rays and DVD's. Noragami is the best anime ever.  |
| Nah, pretty sure it's really common. Haven't read a book in a year, but I constantly look for new manga to read |
| I think it's fine! I used to love reading books, but after a while I got bored of it. And now i'm hooked onto manga! I haven't touched a story book in who knows how long. I get really tired just by reading words, whereas in manga, there's drawings- visuals! So I don't get bored hehe. I feel very satisfied just by reading the manga due to the drawings. |
| Closest thing I will read to actual books is light novels. |
| I read books quite often, but I read manga almost every day, so yeah. Different media-different people will like each. |
| Lol me too. I read a lot of book when I was younger because my mom kept buying them for me and making me read, she had good intentions, but I didn't really want to. Now I read manga every week and I haven't read a book since early 2016. |
| Help the industry and buy Blu-rays and DVD's. Noragami is the best anime ever. |
| i do not remember reading a whole book in my life but i read some manga and completed it |
| I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that most of us here are the same. |
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| I read books just as much as i read manga, the matter which is better is entirely subjective and dependent on your own preference. For me, i find books more detailed and thought provoking than i do Manga. Because when i read a book, i have the freedom to vision how a character looks based on the description provided by the author. No matter how descriptive the author is on the matter, the picture you paint in your head is your own and that, to me, is the beauty of it. Opinions vary, but for me, I haven't read a manga that was more interesting and thought provoking than Tolkien's work. |
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| If you count BL mangas, then definitely lol. If not, I read more books. It's just that I prefer to read reg manga in book form rather than online if you know what I mean. |
| woah there |
| I only read books if I want to learn something. Manga are for entertainment, and I prefer entertainment over learning something. I still read sporadicly though. |
| Same, and I rarely read manga, so...yeah. :3 |
| "No, son, you may not have your body pillow at the dinner table!" |
| Same. I don't like book as much as I like Mangas. I like books but I enjoy reading Mangas way more. Even as a kid I always liked Comics more. |
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| When I see the thickness of a book, I think "I have to get through this?". Manga, I could read forever though! I also do use my kindle and kindle fire sometimes as I do buy the odd few normal books. |
| I read more manga than actual books as well so you're not alone.^^ I love Rick Riordan books but nowadays it's hard to find that enthusiasm to read them than reading manga. |
| As do I. I love reading both manga and novels, but I’m mentally 5 and like to see pretty pictures in the stuff I read. Outside of manga I usually prefer nonfiction books anyways. |
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You read more manga than books?!?!?!? |
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| I think I read more manga than regular books... When I get tired of reading manga, I read light novels, general novels, photo books, etc. |
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| I mean, it's easier to read manga than books, but I think each medium has it's own strengths. HP isn't that good a book anyway, maybe you should try expanding your horizons and that may change. |
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| books boring they don't have pictures lol manga is fun to read tho |
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