You need to start reading better novels.
Excuuuuse meee!? Reading Doraemon is like a torture!? Ohhhhh~ those are fighting words, Buddy! Dora-chan is full of "informational contents"!
What I mean is that it has everyday characters in everyday settings (save for that Robo-cat from the future with a pocket full of fantastic gadgets bit...lol) speaking everyday language. I think it is great for a student of Japanese to watch/read the grammars s/he has learned from textbooks being used in conversations.
In fact, I still read Doraemon, usually when I am in the bathroom. I think every bathroom should have a copy.
My apologies if you feel insulted, it was not my intention.
Maybe at the beginning of learning stages, Doraemon is acceptable.
I did not mean to deny that it can be enjoyable but because I have a painful experience of forcing myself to read introductory materials for English learners in vain, I just wanted to warn him that he does not need to stick to what he does not like.
Anyway, how many volumes of Doraemon have you read so far? I think when I was a kid, I read up to volume 40 or so but that was my limit...and I think there is over 100 volumes now?
You need to start reading better novels.
I agree, do you have a suggestion for a good book to read? Being such a slow reader who scans through the lines even slower than a snail might creep, it is not easy to find a good book myself.
I have tried:
David Eddings(all series)
Author C. Clark(Majority of)
Harry Potter series
Steven King(Dark Towers and a sort stories)
Ray Bradbury(reading now)
J.Tolkien (Hobbit and the famous one)
Lewis Carroll
J. M. Coetzee(Disgrace)
And few other writers
I just scanned through without checking grammars and vocubs because I had a lot of other things to do and I was reading for fun.
In conclusion, I just could not love them much, Mr Clerk was nice but too inorganic.
The great Tolkein, very organic but with my poor language skill, I just could stop pleading him to leave off describing the wonders of the world and to move on with the story.
Dark Tower and David Eddings were slightly easier to read but I think it was cultural thing(like attitude towards religion, how a good man should behave etc) that got on with my nerve so much that I could not read them in peace.
Ray Bradbury, currently I am reading Dandelion Wine, writes beautiful lines and I appreciate it but his characters do not say anything that sounds clever to me and I cannot stop retorting back to the book...
Um, I am obviously bit sick but anyway, would there be any salvation for me somewhere?
p.s
Keroro gunson should be another good one to check out, slightly harder than dora-chan but, from what I felt from reading English Translation, should not be too hard.
p.p.s
I know it is strongly against the moral sense of quite few people but for your benefit.
There are some people scanlating Japanese Manga on the web, so may be you should check them out to see what sort you can bear reading.
Try searching "Manga Helper" on google.
And well, if you actually use it for studying and if your finances allow ,
please buy a copy from book store or from amazon because sharing these images is still controversial thing and reading stuff on PC screen is bad for your eyes.