Saturday, February 24, 2007

Story Mode?

'A Study in Scarlet', Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe thing I enjoy to do when I have some good free time is reading stories. By reading them, I can spend my free time in better way than lazing around without doing anything. I can also expand my knowledge because some stories give me new things about the world that I did not know.

There are two kinds of stories I like to read. The first kind is fiction stories that are written by their original author, like novels or one-shot stories. It is really easy to find them. I just need to go to the bookstore and then buy some books that I think are good to read. The second kind of stories that I like to read is fiction ones that are written by fans of the first kind stories, which are called fan-fictions. These fan-fictions are commonly founded in websites, whether it is official or unofficial one, but in few countries some of them may get published by certain publisher.

'Kokoro', Souseki NatsumeTalking about my favorite fiction author, I cannot say who for there are too many to think about. Therefore, I usually divide them based on their genres. For ‘romance’ stories, I like the romantic scenes that are written by Habiburrahman El-Shirazy and Katayama Kyouichi. For ‘tragedy’, Shakespeare’s and Osamu Dazai’s works are very good to read. For ‘mystery’ stories, I would nominate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, and Edogawa Ranpo as the best mystery maker. For ‘adventures’, I can say that Mark Twain, Darren Shan, J.K. Rowling, and J.R.R Tolkien write some good stories that can make me feel absorbed to their world. For the ‘fairytale’, I really love Andersen for his originality in making one. And then, for ‘life-matter’ stories, Souseki Natsume, Fahri Asiza, and Donny Dhirgantoro are my favorite authors.

Maybe for some other people, my fondness about stories is a bit boring, but still, I like it very much that whenever someone talk about them with me, I will get really exited.

Good work.

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