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[coraa]

Another poll. This one's on reading habits, and for no better reason than because I'm shamelessly curious.

For the purposes of this poll, I'm counting physical books, audiobooks and ebooks of the type you would read in an ebook reader. I'm not counting stuff you read on the web, not because I don't think it's 'real' writing but because I think there's considerably less deliberateness -- one of the beautiful things about the Internet, to me, is that you can spend thirty minutes clicking around and wind up reading about quantum physics or the history of cheese without really realizing how you got there. Which is awesome! But doesn't really say much about what you prefer to read.

EDIT: And I'm counting manga and Western graphic novels that have been collected into books. Basically, as meganbmoore put it, if it has a spine, I count it.



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EDIT: I meant to mention manga and graphic novels under Fiction, and Politics under Non-Fiction, and then I goofed and didn't. Whoops.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if you counted manga. (I tend to count anything with a nive, solid spine that I was required to part with money for.)

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I actually meant to give it a tickybox of its own (though of course it can also fit under other genre labels), but I goofed and forgot.

I just finished reading my way through the FMA manga (up to what's out in the US, at least), and I definitely think it counts.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

FMA is definately one of the best. I put it off for years because a large part of the fandom is so obnoxious and all the marketting when it first came stateside was catered to the "loud brat fighting things" crowd, but I finally found a few sane fans a while back and started reading the manga, then started reading scanslations when some of the events of vol 15 were recounted to me.

I just counted manga while I was voting.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

I put off watching the anime for a long time for much the same reason -- just wound up watching it for the first time a little more than a year ago -- but found that I liked it quite a lot once I did. (Of course, stumbling over it a good year or two after it was The New Hot Thing probably helped with the degree of obnoxious fandom....)

Then I put off reading the manga because of the number of people who told me 'oh, you liked the anime, well the manga is so much better!', which tends to be an argument that doesn't sit well with me if I really liked the anime.

But I'm glad I did, finally. (And having a huge chunk of Hawkeye backstory in there certainly did not hurt. She pushes all of my Tough Female Character buttons with a big hammer.)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Well, I pretty much always prefer the manga(there are exceptions) no matter how much I may love the anime. The FMA fandom, though, is preetty bad in that regard, though, but a lot of the anime fans are actually the same. It's just something in an obnoxious fandom in general.

Hawkeye is easily my favorite character in both versions, and one of my favorites, period. FMA in general, though, does pretty good on the female character front. (I'm not overly fond of Mei/May, and while I like Rose in the manga, I don't care for her in the anime.)

[coraa.livejournal.com]

I was sold on the series (anime and manga both) specifically with the promise of lots of good female characters -- and not only that but a variety of good female characters with different strengths, personalities, ages, etc.

It definitely lived up to expectations on that front, and I was glad to see yet more of them introduced in the manga. (And loved seeing more Hawkeye, because she's also my favorite.)