Between the lines
Books from the starting fascinated me, even more than the movies. There is something they possess that attracts me towards them, not only me but all the readers who feel an adrenaline rush whenever they see a bookstore or a library. The way the author creates a story is marvelous. Movies are also good even so, most of the time, books are better.
In movies, there might be action, horror, romance, and funny scenes that can keep you connected to it for a few hours. But, novels, especially those without pictures, have nothing — just rough pages with dark printed words — sometimes in italics, sometimes in simple letters. Still, it forms a story plot such that you can sit glued to the book for hours.
When you read the printed words on those pages, everything written down in black runs wild in your imagination as if every fictional character has come alive, and soon they become a part of your life. It is amazing how books can almost make you feel connected with those fictional characters. You can understand their pain and misery, perceive the rage in their resentment and feel joy in their happiness.
In movies, you can see the imagination of the director in action but, while reading books, you build your fantasy through the context given in the book. You make your world where the story of the author resides. Sometimes, the story takes such a fascinating and enthralling turn that you sit for hours glued to the book. Somehow you can’t endeavor to keep it away. It feels as if the author wants you not only to read the book but to sit with the characters, to listen to them in their solitude, to notice their behavior, to dive deep in.
When I was reading Pride and Prejudice, it felt like I was not reading a book but noticing them hidden behind bushes, watching their every step as they walk in the woods, as they fall in love. It is a spectacular and mind-blowing experience to read a book like that. You can never have that experience if it is not with a book.
It makes me feel astonished at the capability of such writers who can compel people, make them sit for hours looking at a book with just coarse pages and black printed letters, and with wild running imagination between the lines.
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