Nr1Humanoid
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Nov 28, 2014 9:16:16 GMT -5
For me it's when you know something is coming and you can't stop reading because you can't wait for the author to get there and see how he handles it. Destroy someone at the beginning of the book and set them on a path of revenge and I'm pretty much hooked.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2014 9:20:14 GMT -5
If there seems to be something pivotal coming or the story jumps back to a character I like after a peroid of absence.
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ICBM
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Post by ICBM on Nov 28, 2014 10:33:37 GMT -5
I love that you did this thread. Nobody replies much on the novel threads
A slowly built confluence of characters who have been on separate paths to the same place. Queen of the Damned is a spectacular example of this. Half of a book introduces new and complex characters and turns another card in the mystery every other chapter. Then they start arriving at the concert together. I was going to read one more chapter, just one more then I got entranced and styed up almost all night reading it.
Another one is the old stand by. Sex. Authors who are good at it make it so much better than any video or photograph. It departs from the story but pays off the tension between characters we care about. The descriptive prose is far more sensual than most sxy scenes in movies or tv
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Post by clifford on Nov 28, 2014 15:28:16 GMT -5
New information being revealed. Not necessarily a twist either.
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CM Dazz
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Post by CM Dazz on Nov 28, 2014 16:30:47 GMT -5
When the spine of the book has Brad Thor, Lee Child or Vince Flynn printed on it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2014 16:42:48 GMT -5
Insomnia mainly.
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Post by Raskovnik on Nov 28, 2014 17:06:14 GMT -5
When there's a huge twist that just makes sense, or when the story is inexorably marching somewhere you don't want it to go but can't look away. Murakami's Dance Dance Dance was my favorite example of this. The book starts off as a murder mystery, ostensibly, but then as the story drifts off into being something else entirely you forget that. Then, that plotline suddenly comes back to smack you in the face out of nowhere with this twist that you don't want to be true but makes so much sense. The chapter after that is still one of the best things I've ever read, and after that I couldn't stop reading until I was finished. I should also mention that Brandon Sanderson does an excellent job of this as well.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Nov 28, 2014 19:07:18 GMT -5
Porn.
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Sephiroth
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Post by Sephiroth on Nov 28, 2014 21:55:06 GMT -5
Insomnia.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Nov 29, 2014 5:51:05 GMT -5
It's just when I'm up. I live my life in permanent jet lag. It's almost 4am here. It's just the time I'm awake.
Unless the book is huge, like the ones I'm reading now, 1000+ pages each, then I tend to just read them all at once without stopping. I laugh when I read reviews of books "I couldn't put it down!!! I read it in a week!" You put it down, like, a lot. When I get into a reading mode, like a book a day for a long time. Currently in a down period, where I just flip through books I've read already. Still, I'm almost always reading, it's all I really wanna do most of the time.
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Post by Hit Girl on Nov 29, 2014 7:46:31 GMT -5
A story that advances with every chapter.
If the chapter is filled with padding just to get the book up to novel length, I'm done with it.
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CM Dazz
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Post by CM Dazz on Nov 29, 2014 8:23:53 GMT -5
A story that advances with every chapter. If the chapter is filled with padding just to get the book up to novel length, I'm done with it. Being descriptive is good. Being overly descriptive where you use 12 different adjectives to describe a shoe box is purely brutal. I'll lose myself several times in a chapter sometimes when the narrator drones on and on and on and...zzzzzzz |
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CM Dazz
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Post by CM Dazz on Nov 29, 2014 8:26:17 GMT -5
It's just when I'm up. I live my life in permanent jet lag. It's almost 4am here. It's just the time I'm awake. Unless the book is huge, like the ones I'm reading now, 1000+ pages each, then I tend to just read them all at once without stopping. I laugh when I read reviews of books "I couldn't put it down!!! I read it in a week!" You put it down, like, a lot. When I get into a reading mode, like a book a day for a long time. Currently in a down period, where I just flip through books I've read already. Still, I'm almost always reading, it's all I really wanna do most of the time. I'm the same way. When I read something that interests me, I'll be done in a single night. When I do stop, I always finish the chapter too. I don't understand how people read a page or two & put the book down. Just can't do it. |
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