what do you search in a book while reading?

[blazeofglory]

I always get absorbed in its philosophical side when I read a classic. Dostoevsky for example is my all time preferred read. I like to read Sartre also. I do not go for kinky novels and any sort of romantic and moronic genres. Of course D.H. Lawrence does appeal to me a great deal, his obscenities in Lady Chatterley's lovers notwithstanding. But in general I always find the truth-seeking quotients in the book, not junky and absurdly sentimental trashes.

What do you look for in a book?

[Hyacinthine]

I'm a sucker for challenging language that makes me question the structure of thought and the way thought and language interplay. I like language that breaks down structures and reassembles them as English (I only read in English... so far) is the author's plaything. I like writing that is puzzling and unsettling.

[Alexander III]

I like the sentimental voyage aspect, as well as all the little pretty words forming sentences like garlands.

[weltanschauung]

so youre saying there is no truth in sentiment?
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[blazeofglory]

so youre saying there is no truth in sentiment?
hahaha, blazeofglory... yawwwwwn.

grab a few anais nins, jean genets and come down from your wall of intellectualoidness.

No, I am sorry Weltanschuung, I did not mean there is no truth in sentiments. But I personally do not like sentimental stuffs. But my likes and dislikes have nothing to do with truth.