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Some Thoughts: Preferred Reading Genres

Growing up I'm so into anime. Most on top of my life, my answer will be Digimon and CardCaptor Sakura.

At teenage, I think I started to like something fantasy yet beautiful in landscape and the visual. Like Japanese or Chinese garden. Or secret garden like, with cottage and wooden fence, with flowers around. Still remember I, I even bought many garden magazines, sharing this one with my ma. She loves gardening.

As I grew older, I found myself not many changes when come to my genre choices. Be it when come to movies or books.

Before books, I always prefer to go for movies. Meaning, if I know the movie is adapted from novels, or the novel already in motion picture - I just go for the movie. Such as the Divergent franchise, The Maze Runner franchise, Harry Potter franchise, and such. And true is, I started to notice my liking in genre when come to movies. My interest in movies back then and up until seems like never change. Movie Starship Troopers, RoboCop franchise, Terminator franchise, and Alien franchise, and Predator franchise is I keep back to it. Favourite. These too inspired me in my artwork as time passed.


With CGI and technology in film making grow, so do movies and genre. Yes, I watched any of genres. Superhero, horror, thriller, movie and series.

But my favourite becomes more in a same theme - Sci-Fi to futuristic, to dystopian in its subtheme, cyberpunk and steampunk. All that in the category. Movie that fit the theme will attract my attention to go for cinema like, Ghost In The Shell, Alita: Battle Angel, latest one this year The Creator, Blade Runner 2049, Total Recall where played by Colin Farrell, Lucy, Inception, Tenet, Underwater, Interstellar, Dune Part 1 and 2, Edge Of Tomorrow, Passengers played by J. Law and Chris Pratt, In Time, A Quiet Place franchise, Mad Max Fury Road, Waterworld, Ready Player One, and so on.

As for books, it all started after watching Mortal Engines. Adapted from the same title, by author Philip Reeve.

Before, I did bought few books and comics like. Harry Potter Deathly Hallows 1, and Kingdom Hearts, which I got 2 to 3..? Other such as guide genre for cats and kittens, and identify flowers and plants, information about places with sketchy illustrations. I bought for main reason just because I love the illustration I guess? This was teenage time... But from Mortal Engines that makes me want to read, it was 2018..? Still reading the fourth book, the thickest one. And another 4 still untouched.. it will when the time comes. I hope that I will reads no matter how long is going to be..

Else than that, I think I'm into thriller or horror. But I'll talking about it in part 2 on this.

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