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Story of my Literary Beginning!

 


It all started in the first year of engineering while watching TWILIGHT, the vampire story. I downloaded all the 5 movies, watched them in 2 days & loved them. Although I was not satisfied with the last 2 parts, I loved the setting, the breezy atmosphere & the romantic scenes. After watching them I felt something I had never felt before. I was in love with Bella right from the first movie until one my friend told me that the actress is a lesbian, then I had kind of a mixed feeling about her. But I loved the movies nevertheless.

I was so infatuated in love that I started googling about the films for more details. That’s when I knew that these films were all based on a series of fantasy novels by Stephanie Meyer. Before that I had no prior knowledge of any sort on what a novel is or why to even bother to read them. But that’s the day something changed in me. Then I moved to Amazon & I was overwhelmed by the amounts & varieties of novels I found there. I spent hours searching novels of all possible kinds & thought of buying one. My attention locked on one romance novel which was on the top of the list named “Gone with the Wind”. The title seemed classic & I ordered it without a second thought.

One week later I received the copy only to find myself disappointed by the fact that it’s page count was over 1000. A magnum opus indeed. That was discouraging for me as a new comer trying to enter into this bookish world. At that time I was in my village & it was summer. Playing cricket in the afternoon was something I enjoyed there, but I had nothing to do in the night. After a series of boring & lonely nights I thought “let’s fucking do this”. I reached to the self, picked this fat book in my tiny hands & started reading it.

Honestly speaking, I knew I can’t finish such a huge book. So instead of focusing on the overall plot of the novel I started focusing on the writing style in few passages. I liked the author’s description. I liked the way the author was trying to introduce the characters. So that time onwards I had a rough idea about what it was like to read a novel. When I left my village for my college I was hooked by novels & developed a genuine respect for books. But whatever has happened till this point is like a drop of water in the river. The next year onwards the river filled with water. Then a time came when flood arrived & the water of the river lead their way to the sea where they were lost in waves of literature.

 

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