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DNF'd that award winner in one sitting, but the trashy thriller took me 3 weeks
Last Tuesday I picked up the literary darling everyone raves about, the one with the elaborate prose and deep themes, and I slammed through 60 pages before realizing I was just bored. Meanwhile that predictable airport thriller with the terrible cover had me checking my phone every 5 minutes, and I finally threw it in the donate box after 9 days. Does a book have to be 'good' to keep you reading, or is it more about the pull of the plot over the polish of the writing?
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blake82921d ago
Man, I know that feeling way too well. Some of those award winners feel like homework, and I keep telling myself I should love them but I'm just staring at the page count going up. Give me a dumb page turner any day where I actually want to know what happens next. That pull is what matters, not how pretty the sentences are.
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