This weeks' question:
“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?“
I think the answer to what keeps me reading beyond the first few pages may vary. It might be an immediately exciting bit of action, or the setup of a puzzle-type "hook", or a particularly poignant bit of descriptive prose, or a strong and novel narrative voice. I can often tell, when none of these are present at the beginning, that it's going to be a long, slow slog through the book. What will definitely cause me to stop reading a book and put it back on the shelf is when I come to the point where I just don't care in the slightest what happens to the people in that book any more. Well, that's not absolutely true, as I have been known to give up at the point when I realize that I hope they all die painful and lonely deaths, as well.
3 comments:
lol! I like your answer far more than mine. I usually want all the characters that are too 'good' to die. Only because most of the time I am thinking, 'Really, no one would do that.'
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I don't know why I keep reading a book. It's not the story. It's not the characters. I really don't know!
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