Saturday, July 12, 2014

Reasons To Read New Suspense Novels

By Marylou Forbes


The society of today are often attracted to the sleek, lightweight and minimalist designed look of the gadgets and appliances that make their way out of the market. Radios are swapped for iPods. Analog clocks are replaced with digital ones. Newspapers are already accessed online. At present, people hardly bring books around anymore such as new suspense novels, you would think it is taboo.

Reading good old books today seem to be some kind of a lost art. Modern generations hardly ever pick up these stuff and read. For them, there are so many things better than perusing through old pages. They would just rather watch TV all day, surf the net during their free time, and do other stuff. If there is a novel that has become really famous, they will just wait for the movie version of the said story in cinemas.

What these people are missing out on is that wonderful feeling of having to open a new book and flicking through the pages. There is also something comforting in the scent of a book, be it the bookshop scent of a new one or the musty musk of an old one at the library. A regular book does not need to be charged nor runs out of battery. You can read it anywhere, anytime, without worrying about it being snatched away from you.

There are also people who read, yet the books they consider to be worth reading are only the factual ones. They limit their reading selection to periodicals, science magazines and subscriptions, history books, biographies, and autobiographies of notable individuals and personalities. Those that are labeled as fiction such as romance, horror, thriller, and suspense are not worth wasting their intellect upon.

On the contrary, immersing oneself in the fictional genre has its benefits. Even though is it branded as a work of fiction, it can actually contain a substantial amount of truth. All those factual ones can bend or alter some events in order to protect a live person, but fiction does not do that. It only states things as they happen, which is why the most gripping truths are in the pages of a fictional story.

Reading also stimulates mental functions. A mentally stimulated mind can help prevent the onset of Alzheimers and dementia, the two most destructive enemies of the think process. Reading to the mind is what exercise is to the body, so to stay brain healthy, it is recommended that you read more.

Reading can be quite engaging, too, and it keeps your mind off things. Suspense and mystery types compel one to read from beginning to end, and develop their own judgments and ideas. Before you know it, you have already forgotten about the nagging problem at the office that has been bothering you all day before you decided to read.

Reading books allow you to expand your world. People think that the whole books take you to places thing is just a load of crap, but it is actually true. By just flicking through the pages, you get to be an Asian temple keeper, a European spy, an American traveler, and so much more. You get to know what it feels like to become a surgeon, a detective, a novelist, an artist and a lot more even if you do neither for a living.

It also stimulates critical thinking. A well written suspense thriller will get you to formulate your own thoughts on what you think will happen next. It will also give you a good lesson on formulating judgments and opinions.




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