Thread: What kills a book for you?
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Old 07-15-2011, 03:43 PM   #198
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Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy View Post
I can't stand when a novel is written in the present tense.
I'm trying to picture that. I think the closest I've come is having a character at the beginning of a tale explain to the reader the situation he is in, and that he is about to tell how he got to where he is now (I've seen that with Lovecraft). But aside from the opening and closing, I believe the bulk of the tale is past tense.

Maybe it is too close to dinner time and I'm just not firing on all synapses -- can you give an example of one that I can look into?
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