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 Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:31 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:25 pm
Bad or good is an opinion so no answer can really be completely accurate, but It is partly writing style. I liked the concept and characters from this one book I was trying to read, but I just couldn't read it because I couldn't stand the way it was written.
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:07 pm
Juicy Kobold Bad or good is an opinion so no answer can really be completely accurate, but It is partly writing style. I liked the concept and characters from this one book I was trying to read, but I just couldn't read it because I couldn't stand the way it was written. I agree 3nodding On a different note,when I was seven,I tried to read this book,but hated it and couldn't read it for some reason,so I put it back in my brothers room.(He has all the books ^_^)I have just read the same book,and now I find it amazingly brilliant blaugh The thing that ruins a book for me is cliché-ness,when will authors realise that we want originality,not a load of cliché's?
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:04 pm
Loads of things. too fast/too slow pacing, word choice, fluency, excessive explanation, murky plot/internal conflict/everything in general, excessive amount of cliches, (if you're thinking novel) too much opinion, jerky plotline, undefined characters, no character development, little setting description, messed up dialogue, and lack of originality among other things.
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HAPPY ELECTION DAY!!!!!!!
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Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 2:54 pm
I like to read books with humor, so a dry story is a real killer.
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:51 pm
I pretty much will read anything...unless it is nonfiction...then its really hard. But I agree that a bad book is a matter of opinion. Depends on the type of books you like...
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Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 8:23 pm
if it's too shallow
if the writting is poor
if the story is too predictable
if the story dosen't have a main point/ plot
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:54 pm
For me, it's mainly how much I can get attached to a character. Another reason is the plot, I won't like it if I just finished reading the same plot in another book.
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:04 am
Suzuka-dono Loads of things. too fast/too slow pacing, word choice, fluency, excessive explanation, murky plot/internal conflict/everything in general, excessive amount of cliches, (if you're thinking novel) too much opinion, jerky plotline, undefined characters, no character development, little setting description, messed up dialogue, and lack of originality among other things. blahblahbllah HAPPY ELECTION DAY!!!!!!! Also when the author describes too much the scenery and that part doesn't have any importance.
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 3:13 am
In any good book, the reader should have empathy with the characters, i.e. there should be a reason why the reader cares what happens to them.
A perfect example of a good author who writes bad books is Stephen R. Donaldson; his novels are well written, but his main characters are such awful people that you actually become disgusted with their behavior.
In his science fiction novel, The Gap into Knowledge, the main character of Angus Thermopylae rescues the heroine from her wrecked spaceship, then while she is in sickbay has a mind control device implanted in her brain that allows him to manipulate the heroine like a puppet, turning her into his sex slave... and this is supposed to be our hero?
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 8:41 pm
In order for me to think a book is "good" I have to like the storyline, the characters, the writing style, and the genre. A "great" book is a book that gets you very involved, and has you laughing, angry, and crying with the characters as they go through their ordeals. There are books I read where I just... Don't get into the story that much. But I don't think a book is good unless it covers the four things I mentioned above. If I don't like characters, I'll keep reading, but if they don't get better, I just stop. If I don't like a storyline, I keep reading until I get tired of it. If I don't like the genre I won't read it at all. If I don't like the writing style, I stop immediately. And if I don't like all four, I will throw the book in the trash. I did that with the first Harry Potter book, actually. My teacher made us do a book report on it in fifth grade, and I read it all in one night, took it back the next day, with the book report, tore up the report, and threw it and the book in the trash, and told her to let me read Stephen King and write a report on that. I had already been reading King for two years by that point. But lots of people love Harry Potter, so it was just my opinion. And it still is, I freaking hated that book so much, and when I tried reading it again I couldn't even read all of it, I just took it right back to the library, and washed my hands three times. sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:14 am
1. bad plot or no plot
2. bad writing
3. no theme
4. characters who are utterly hateable
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Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:36 am
A bad plot or no plot
bad writing
Lots of typos (Which sometimes authors get away with)
Not describing enough (Like characters or what a place looks like)
No backround on characters
No backround on a place
Not enough detail
And to me that's what makes a bad book.
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