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Sometimes, I will be reading and I will get very irritated at the book. Normally, this is because I really want to get further in the novel, but I cannot read fast enough, or else I end up being forced to do something else. It's frustrating!
What are your irritations while reading? Feet have a tendency to fall asleep, or you get a papercut when turning a page...?
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« Reply #1 on Nov 26, 2011, 5:58pm » | |
I tend to spoil myself inadvertently when looking stuff up about the book, and sometimes that makes me not want to finish the book at all, especially is the spoiler is about the climax or about a favorite character.
Right now, I'm reading Pillars of the Earth, and I have never so mindlessly hated a villain as I do now. I don't know whether to praise the author, or just stab the book every time the name of the villain appears. If the fucker doesn't die, I will burn this book.
I also hate when horrifically bad things happen to the main characters just for the sake of conflict. There needs to be a damn good reason and they can't just keep happening. This is why I refused to finish Assassin's Apprentice Trilogy.
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« Reply #2 on Nov 28, 2011, 1:03pm » | |
Nov 26, 2011, 5:58pm, Marina wrote:| I also hate when horrifically bad things happen to the main characters just for the sake of conflict. There needs to be a damn good reason and they can't just keep happening. This is why I refused to finish Assassin's Apprentice Trilogy. |
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ARGH. I got halfway through the first book before just giving up on it (which, by the way, I hardly ever do). It was just... dull. Bad things kept happening with no levity, and I couldn't even tell if the main character wanted better for himself, so... blargh.
The contrast, I think, is the Song of Ice and Fire series (which I keep praising here, sorry for repetition), in which horrible things happen to all the characters but they keep struggling for something better, and the awful things that happen seem like inevitable plot progression instead of just "Oh, main character's getting too comfortable? Let's kill off his only friend!" (Which is totally what happened in Assassin's Apprentice, no exaggeration.)
Blargh, I need to get my hands on Feast for Crows and see what terrible things are happening to those characters ASAP...
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« Reply #3 on Dec 7, 2011, 11:12pm » | |
Another thing that bothers me, is when people I come to respect for their writing and (some) reading choices, give raving reviews to shitty books because they don't want to get bad reviews when their books come out. If you don't wanna give a bad review to the book, just don't review it, mark it as read, say maybe that you thought it could have been better. GAH!
Main example of this is a YA book called Angelfire... I didn't finish it. It was dull, boring and blah... and yet this person said it was awesome. So much so that I bought it when it came out. GAH!
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« Reply #4 on Dec 8, 2011, 4:21am » | |
Dec 7, 2011, 11:12pm, Marina wrote:| Another thing that bothers me, is when people I come to respect for their writing and (some) reading choices, give raving reviews to shitty books... |
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Thiiiis happened to me. I picked up a book called Sunshine because it had a glowing review from Neil Gaiman, and I respect him and his opinion well enough that I figured I'd give it a try.
Most. Disappointing. Read. EVER.
The characters were all rather bland, except the one vampire, who was all "oooo I'm mysterious and dangerous and have a super-shady-and-interesting backstory" (real shocker there, right?), so I read it to see where that went.
Spoiler: IT WENT NOWHERE.
The book ended without finding out anything about the vampire and his super-shady backstory.
I READ 300+ PAGES FOR NOTHING AND IT'S ALL NEIL GAIMAN'S FAULT.
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« Reply #5 on Dec 8, 2011, 6:32pm » | |
Really? I kind of enjoyed Sunshine. But I didn't expect to be that good and I agree with most everything you said about it. And I hear that she blatantly refused to write a sequel... since like you said... we know nothing about the vampire and the end seemed rather open ended.
I guess that's another thing. Books that have no definite endings make me feel empty [insert bad sex metaphor here]
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« Reply #6 on Dec 9, 2011, 3:03am » | |
Dec 8, 2011, 6:32pm, Marina wrote:| I guess that's another thing. Books that have no definite endings make me feel empty [insert bad sex metaphor here] |
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Oh, you mean anticlimactic climaxes don't satisfy your appetite? #WentThere
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« Reply #7 on Dec 9, 2011, 5:47pm » | |
Dec 9, 2011, 3:03am, onlyaworkingtitle wrote:
Dec 8, 2011, 6:32pm, Marina wrote:| I guess that's another thing. Books that have no definite endings make me feel empty [insert bad sex metaphor here] |
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Oh, you mean anticlimactic climaxes don't satisfy your appetite? #WentThere |
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Yes. ha-ha.
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« Reply #8 on Dec 12, 2011, 4:12am » | |
When you're reading a very thick paperback and it keeps flopping over or making your arm tired while you read on your back.
[First person to tell me that e-readers don't have this problem will have the first digit on each finger of their left hand lopped off. And perhaps the right as well.]
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« Reply #9 on Dec 12, 2011, 2:16pm » | |
Dec 12, 2011, 4:12am, Dodger Thirteen wrote:| When you're reading a very thick paperback and it keeps flopping over or making your arm tired while you read on your back. |
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SHUT UP THIS IS THE ONLY EXERCISE I GET.
...and this is one of those moments where even I'm not sure how much I'm exaggerating... >_>
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« Reply #10 on Dec 12, 2011, 3:33pm » | |
Woman, you need to walk a little.
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« Reply #12 on Dec 12, 2011, 8:06pm » | |
I'm sure she walks to the fridge... and to the bathroom.
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« Reply #13 on Dec 12, 2011, 8:32pm » | |
Dec 12, 2011, 7:49pm, onlyaworkingtitle wrote:
Ever hear of walking pneumonia? OH SNAP.
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« Reply #14 on Dec 12, 2011, 10:40pm » | |
Dec 12, 2011, 8:32pm, Dodger Thirteen wrote:
I do not have that pneumonia. I have the kind that makes me totally useless. Like, more than usual.
Dec 12, 2011, 8:06pm, Marina wrote:| I'm sure she walks to the fridge... and to the bathroom. |
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I actually walk up and down stairs to and from the fridge. The bathroom, on the other hand, is about four steps from my computer, so... less of an accomplishment. But tomorrow I'm going to leave the house and take the subway and go to class, and I'm sure you'll all (both) be terribly proud.
Also, we're getting a bit off-topic here. I HATE WHEN I'M READING AND GET A PAPER CUT (let's pretend this happens to me all the time).
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