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Originally Posted by JSWolf
A book to avoid is Dracula. The style doesn't lend itself to being scary at all. Plus, the pacing was just slow. Overall, a good premise with a poor execution due to slow pacing, poor style and not being scary.
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True, that. Probably had to be read by the light of a candle projecting shadows...
As we move faster and faster in this frenetic world I wonder what I found attractive in all those books I've read over the years. Most were built around pompous narrative and took ages to deliver a meager story that could have been told in a page; somewhat a reflection of a life I used to live. Could beauty of language still mean anything today? What would a book be like in text language? I'm curious, does anyone know of such a work?