I fucking hate snitty readers who are more interested in appearing world-weary and cleverer-than-thou than in paying attention to the book they're reading.
Caveat: Your books do not do this.
I hate reading a book and paying attention and feeling world-weary about it. I'm reading a book from the "mystery" section right now that has a slightly Gothic "deep-dark-secret" feel to it, but: Some of the "secret" is in the back jacket copy. More of the "secret" is in the first few chapters if one pays attention to dates and facts.
I'm only hoping all these obvious bits are meant to distract me away from other portions of the plot, but so far, if this is just leading up to a fact I already know of, it's like the staggering surprise of finding 4 on the other side of the equals sign from 2 and 2.
Your books are a bit more like algebraic formulas with unknown variables, and possibly no equal sign at all.
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Date: 2010-04-09 09:39 pm (UTC)Caveat: Your books do not do this.
I hate reading a book and paying attention and feeling world-weary about it. I'm reading a book from the "mystery" section right now that has a slightly Gothic "deep-dark-secret" feel to it, but: Some of the "secret" is in the back jacket copy. More of the "secret" is in the first few chapters if one pays attention to dates and facts.
I'm only hoping all these obvious bits are meant to distract me away from other portions of the plot, but so far, if this is just leading up to a fact I already know of, it's like the staggering surprise of finding 4 on the other side of the equals sign from 2 and 2.
Your books are a bit more like algebraic formulas with unknown variables, and possibly no equal sign at all.