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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]

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.)