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And by the by, maybe it's just me, but I *want* an author who's willing to show some imagination and confound/challenge the expectations of their readers. I understand there are readers who like genre and conventions and a pleasant ride from point A to point Z, but *I* am not one of them. Nothing irritates me quite as much as an ending you can see 200 pages off...and then the writer *writes* it. |
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More like a red rag to a bull than a red flag; the infuriating attempts of British publishers and critics to hail books as "hilarious" that aren't particularly so: "The Black Death and the European Catastrophe" - "hilarious" - The London Blatherer; "The Holocaust" - "hilarious" - The London Evening B*llsh*tter.
Ok, I made these up but you get my meaning. Anything that involves American high school teenagers, Vampires, chick lit and bodice rippers. Anything written by John Grisham. |
07-06-2013, 03:54 PM | #50 |
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From this weekend's NYT Book Review: "A novel of love, narcissism and ailing cattle"
[Idiopathy by Sam Byers - if this blurb grabbed your interest] |
07-06-2013, 05:52 PM | #51 |
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07-06-2013, 06:43 PM | #52 |
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Stephen King called a character in a book (a book I was thinking about reading) "spunky." I fear that's close enough to "plucky" to seriously hurt the book's chances of getting in front of my eyes. We'll see.
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But not plucky. Never plucky. At least, I hope you're talking about Dr. Sleep, because if there are more SK blurbs using the "spunky (age) (genderchild)" formula, I may have to reconsider. |
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Of course you must admit that Frodo has a pluckability level of epic proportions, and that the Elves in that particular story are uncommonly endearing and certainly not aloof Last edited by Katsunami; 07-06-2013 at 06:57 PM. |
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Me I like challenging and different books and read as many as I can. But after something that stretches my brain, I want to read something fun or relaxing like a good kick ass adventure/mystery/thriller story, like Robert B. Parker, Rex Stout, Robert K. Tanenbaum etc. Sure I know the ending before I even start the book, but not too many books that I don't. Still I enjoy the ride in a way quite different from a book that keeps you on edge wondering if the good guys will prevail Where do you find all of these books, with totally unexpected endings? I read a book a year or so ago where the ending was unexpected in that most of the characters were killed in a snowstorm and all the little subplots as well as the main plot within the book were never resolved. It was indeed unexpected and kind of outraged me because I was enjoying the book till the last ten pages when the author got tired of thinking it seems. Not an Indie book either. The moral or point of the book seemed to be always carry a flashlight. Helen |
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