[rloomis]

Does anyone take notes while reading?? Sometimes i feel this will assist me later in the story ...i'm about half way thru The Reality Dysfunction and i'm really getting into it....I feel like going back and re-reading about characters that re-appear...perhaps if i took very brief notes i wouldn't feel the need to re-read sections....Just curious on other viewpoints ...

[Andols]

I just started the malazan series and find the glossary and dramatis personae lacking, so i jotted down a few things on my own.

I've gone back and skimmed through specific parts of books plenty of times though.

[Madness]

Andols, you make me laugh. I've often thought of making an entire connection web on my bedroom wall for the Malazan series. I feel it'd connect a little cleaner than it does in my mind.

rloomis, I have done so with Bakker's Prince of Nothing trilogy. Then again, I used to write alot on the three-seas.com forums, so that helped; do whatever helps you enjoy a story more.

[Michigan]

Notes would probably come in very handy with Malazan and The Reality Dysfunction, though I never take them. I'm more apt to go back and read a section instead and the thing with notes in books like those is you don't really know what is important enough to write down.

[ArthurFrayn]

Actually I find discussion here, or trying to recount the story writing a synopsis while it's still fresh in mind with the book at hand, helps me understand it's workings better.

I'm still thinking about what to say concerning Camp Concentration for the book club. :rolleyes:

As far as keeping track of characters: I regard that as the author's responsibility, not mine. If a character is going to be important in the book, I think the author has to find a way to make that character or characters stand out.

[Libo]

There are a few times I've taken notes in the past many moons ago. But generally, if I have to work that hard to keep track of what's going on I'd better be getting something else really good out of the book to keep me going. If I wanted to keep notes, I'd go back to school. This is after all, what I do for fun after working, keeping house and paying the bills.

And then, as ArthurFrayn noted, the discussions here help keep it fresh, bring up new ideas and aspects that I maybe wouldn't have come up with, or give background that I didn't know about the author/setting as it were.

[Erfael]

I'm still thinking about what to say concerning Camp Concentration for the book club. :rolleyes:

Me, too. I finished it almost two weeks ago, but I'm still not sure how to approach discussing it.

[Andols]

Andols, you make me laugh. I've often thought of making an entire connection web on my bedroom wall for the Malazan series. I feel it'd connect a little cleaner than it does in my mind.

rloomis, I have done so with Bakker's Prince of Nothing trilogy. Then again, I used to write alot on the three-seas.com forums, so that helped; do whatever helps you enjoy a story more.

I considered it also. I'm jotting down a few things as a I go to keep some of the back story in place. Im 50-60 pages from completeing the first book, I have a feeling my notes will get large.

Notes would probably come in very handy with Malazan and The Reality Dysfunction, though I never take them. I'm more apt to go back and read a section instead and the thing with notes in books like those is you don't really know what is important enough to write down.


Oh great Reality Dysfunction is my next read after malazan.

[thrinidir]

i don't take notes as such, but if i like some thoughts or phrases i write them down for my own amusement; oh, and i quite regularly write the unknown words into my special little dictionary.