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ETA: I am talking about fiction here...
Okay so maybe I shouldn't say a good book, but rather an entertaining book...because a book can be considered good by all literary critics but not very entertaining to me
I love to read books that are in the first person. Genre doesn't really matter although first person is sometimes a no no in some genres...Anyways what I find the most important in a good book, is being able to get under the main characters' skin and see life through their eyes and be able to feel their attitude towards everything, even in my own life after I put down the book.. I like to mentally ponder on how the character I'm reading about would react if put in what happens to me in my daily life, etc...(sorry if I'm speaking like an illiterate haha, I haven't taken a real english class since i've always been in the science and engineering fields until recently but anyways...so my descriptions are probably all weird!!) Sometimes even if a book is in the first person this effect is not achieved and thus I don't like the book...The strange thing is that this is applied to all books that I read..Maybe that's my fetish when it comes to reading
kidding. I dunno if I'm jumping to generalizations about this trend or if I am too whimsical and unappreciative of so many writers..I honestly feel a little bad for this, but I am trying to do some self exploring here and trying to figure out what I like in books because I am sooo sick and tired of reading through loads and loads of bad fiction in an attempt to find something good to read and then when I do find something that I like, I obsess like crazy and ask myself why can't all books have that effect on me lol..Another thing is that the reviews of others don't mean a thing ...people with similar interests with me suggest books to me but I still find them soo boring most of the time while everyone else is just obsessing over them!! Usually discovering something good to read is by chance...
So...I wanted to know about everyone else..Is there any particular quality in a book that you find is a must for you to read and enjoy it or is it just me just being odd
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Okay so maybe I shouldn't say a good book, but rather an entertaining book...because a book can be considered good by all literary critics but not very entertaining to me
I love to read books that are in the first person. Genre doesn't really matter although first person is sometimes a no no in some genres...Anyways what I find the most important in a good book, is being able to get under the main characters' skin and see life through their eyes and be able to feel their attitude towards everything, even in my own life after I put down the book.. I like to mentally ponder on how the character I'm reading about would react if put in what happens to me in my daily life, etc...(sorry if I'm speaking like an illiterate haha, I haven't taken a real english class since i've always been in the science and engineering fields until recently but anyways...so my descriptions are probably all weird!!) Sometimes even if a book is in the first person this effect is not achieved and thus I don't like the book...The strange thing is that this is applied to all books that I read..Maybe that's my fetish when it comes to reading
So...I wanted to know about everyone else..Is there any particular quality in a book that you find is a must for you to read and enjoy it or is it just me just being odd