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Which light Novel should I read as my first?

Gabriel Luke

Gabriel Luke

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I plan on buying my first Light Novel in a shop around me during this COVID-19. I have a watched some anime like (shinka no mi novel), but I want to read some book series as well. Do you have any recommendations on some Book I should start with?
 
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I think the OP means "Light Novel" in the sense of a sort of Japanese "Young Adult" novel (apologies for a probably inaccurate cultural analogy, I've only done cursory research) rather than generic light reading.

This isn't a widely-known term in Europe, and I guess not in the US. I'd never heard it myself, it was just the capitalisation and the connection the OP made to anime that made me suspect this might be a Japanese genre and look it up.
 
Hadron said:
I think the OP means "Light Novel" in the sense of a sort of Japanese "Young Adult" novel (apologies for a probably inaccurate cultural analogy, I've only done cursory research) rather than generic light reading.

This isn't a widely-known term in Europe, and I guess not in the US. I'd never heard it myself, it was just the capitalisation and the connection the OP made to anime that made me suspect this might be a Japanese genre and look it up.
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Ah, now I know what the OP means. Many of our middle school students like to read them things. Maybe I should ask them, what's the best to read. I just called them "comics", as the Manga stuff is what's mostly available to students in China.
 
Manga are comics rather than text novels.

Can't say about direction of reading: as I don't read Japanese the only Japanese literature I've read has been translated, and I've never looked closely at a Japanese book (which feels like a terrible admission to make).
 
Death Note is a great light novel, the black editions is pretty good.
Highly recomended also the Neon Eva Gensis light novels too.
 
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy is not light but I really liked it, I recently read it and it is exceptional. I mean, yes, a lot depends on everyone's preferences. Books are the ones that broaden our imagination, enrich our knowledge and of course, help us in life.
 
Gabriel Luke said:
I plan on buying my first Light Novel in a shop around me during this COVID-19. I have a watched some anime like (shinka no mi novel), but I want to read some book series as well. Do you have any recommendations on some Book I should start with?
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Death Note The Black Edition, also there is a light novel of Evaligeion it is pretty amazing too :) I do have a few Light Novels in my collection. I read them every once a spell.
 
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