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What makes reading your first choice of entertainment?
Why do you choose to coz up with a book though hundreds of pages?
Why do you love to read?
What makes a book so remember able you read it over and over, and buy it for friends and family?
One last question: what is the worst thing (i.e. grammar, flow, it’s boring, or weak characters ext… ext...) in a book that you let go and kept reading to the end?
Just trying to get some outside points of view… thx for any response you might leave.
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For me, I need something unusual to keep me going, some thread of "what is going to happen to these people I care about?" that makes me want to see what happens.
ReplyDeleteWhat makes me read it more than once is having specific scenes that emotionally resonate with me. I find myself wanting to reread those scenes, or dialogue exchanges, because they both fascinate and engage me.
If you want to turn me off from a book, make its characters stupid or unlikeable. And make nothing happen. I hate going through 100 pages and have absolutely nothing go on. Boring.
I read books because I'm caught up in characters. I hear them, know them, feel them. Books give me enough to love the characters but leave enough leeway to let my not inconsiderable imagination fill in the blanks.
ReplyDeleteI reread (and I do) because I get lost in the world with characters I love to spend time with. If I give a friend or family member a book, it's because the characters touched me and I want to share it.
Screwing up a character or making one do something I consider truly unforgivable (or accept unforgivable treatment) can ruin a book for me.
I love that books can take us out of our everyday lives. For me it's an escape from the norm and that's why I love to read.
ReplyDeleteI recently read a book that seemed a little slow-paced for my taste but I kept going because the main character and setting were really great.