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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
[...] On the other hand, predictable isn't the worst thing a book can be.
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I absolutely agree with this. The journey is the important thing to me (hero's or not), it has to be a good ride. For example I only just now put down a John Grisham novel, one I hadn't read before, and from the first chapter I could have given a broad-brush outline of how the story was going to go, but I still enjoyed the ride. Not that all his books are quite that predictable, but the point still stands: a writer's skill can overcome the limitations of a predictable story line, they MUST be able to, because some aspects of a story are (almost always) inherently predictable.