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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
Already Dead? Yes, yes, it was that "can save/won't tell her" thing. It is common...and perhaps that is why it bugged me. But honestly I rarely like vamp stories. His were easily some of the best I've read. I generally don't read a lot of them. I liked Charlaine's series ... for one book. I read book 2 and maybe 3? Or I skipped to book 5? I don't know. That type of saga doesn't do a dang thing for me. It wasn't the vamps, it was the lack of a good mystery plot and the drama of "everyone loves Sookie - 95 boyfriends."
The whole thing about vamps is they are... dead. I dunno. Like I said, he did a good job and the story had me flipping pages madly. But I just didn't want to read the second one.
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Indeed, I often wondered why the Sookie books and similar are shelved under mysteries at my library and Randy Wayne White and Harlen Coben are under general fiction. The ways of librarians are strange and mysterious at times
Ebooks are wonderful because we can pick and chose more easily what we want to read. Me, I try not to read too many in a series in a row, no matter how much I love them I get bored when I do.
I think that punctuation does not bother me as much as excessive sex or obscenity or derogatory writing. High swearing tolerance, but too old to care about the sex
Couldn't do Chuck Palanuik at all as all the derogatory remarks depressed me.
It is a bit bizarre that I managed to read 3 books pretty close together though and not consciously notice the lack of quotes, but probably a good thing not to be irritated by it.
Helen