This week’s question is: “What keeps you reading beyond the first few pages of a book, and what makes you want to stop reading a book and put it back on the shelf?”
MY ANSWER:
A good plot is definitely the most significant for keeping me reading a book. Sometimes, however, the plot is not particularly special, but there might be an intriguing character or more of them, because of which I insist on finding out what happens to them. Also, often it is the writing which makes it worth reading a book through.
That combination of elements is so important to really enjoy a book.
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Shelleyrae
These book blogger hop questions just get better and better. This one looks easy but I think it’s a trick question. We all know it’s the same answer – the writing – but we all have different perspectives of what good writing is.
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Happy July 4th Weekend!
Howard Sherman, Implementor
http://www.howardsherman.net
"Nothing is more torturous than reading a badly-written book with a boring story and predictable, one-dimensional characters. "
ReplyDeleteHear, hear!!! :)
It's usually a combination of things that keep all of us reading books.
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Hopping through. A great story is key, but I agree that a great character can sometimes make up with problems in plot.
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Thanks for hopping by :-) Sometimes there's just nothing that can save a book, when the writing, characters and plot suck it really deserves to be put down. Sometimes I wonder how things even get to be published in the first place!!
ReplyDeleteI agree, a character I love can get me through an otherwise tedious book!
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Anja
Thanks for stopping by my blog, I'm now following you as well. What do you feel makes a poorly written book? People go on and on about Twilight being poorly written, but every time I pick it up it sucks me back in so that I can barely put it down to even sleep at night. Just curious how you would explain it, because I try to argue with people about it, but don't know exactly how else to say it.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely spot-on about how and why a book becomes tedious.
ReplyDeleteAn excellent combination of reasons to either keep reading a book or put it back down depending on the circumstance. :) Thank you for visiting and happy reading this weekend!
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@ Lisa Mandina: Your question just made my brain-cells start working on turbo speed, so I'm writing a post on it. Expect it tomorrow and thanks for making me think:)
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