Vimes
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A "Bum ending" to me means an ending that is a total let down. Sometimes the author builds the suspense and then says oh dear I have to end this book now and within ten pages everything is finished. No proper ending or a bum ending
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Well, you aren't disappointed if it is a bum ending? And you know if everyone lives happily ever after? You also know if you need to look for the second book in the series
(and I have read a few that have ended on a cliff hanger and I then have to go and search for the second one in the series that I didn't know it was a part of! lol) I guess it depends on why you are looking and what you are looking for in a book. -
I have say that it is interesting seeing what draws people to certain books. I saw a scene in a movie once, (please don't ask what movie because I dunno
), where the two characters stop at a book sale and the girl looks at the last page of the book and when asked she said something like "if I like the ending thenvthe rest of the book is worth reading". So I have to ask, dose anyone here read the last page of a book to see if you want to read it? I know I have done it a few times! -
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I have no idea
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Oddly I a the opposites, I only pay attention to Authors that I don't like and avoid. Nor do I choose books dased on what awards it got, in fact unless it sounds really great I tend not to by books that have won anything because they won. :-) I know marry marry quiet contrary but that just how I am!
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The first thing to catch my eye is a toss up between the title and the cover, depending on what I see first. Then it is all down to the first page. If it grabs me and I want to read more, I'm sold
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I have just finished reading The Tigers wife by Teà Obreht and I have to say that it was one of the best books that I have read in a while. How I don't normally I don't read books like this but this one caught my eye and I an so glad that it did.
The story follows a young docter after her grandfather dies and as she remembers here grand father and wall of the storys that he used to fell her. Okay that really simplifying the story but it gives you an idea of what it is about. Has anyone else read it if so what did you think?
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Hmmm well he couldn't be worse than the other guy that was playing Batman and the new Batman movies couldn't get any worse. Lol :-)
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My favorite of the Vimes books is Guard Guards.
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Welcome! This is a great place if you want to talk about books lol
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I have read I think just about every one of his discworld books and have loved most of them. A few like mort I didn't fine that appealing, loved the Rincewind and Vimes books as well as the ones with Granny weatherwax in them.
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Welcome :-D hope that you like this forum and post as often as you can!
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I think that most authors could write far more complicated books for far younger readers than they are at the moment. At the moment you have very simple books and then suddenly you have very complicated books and no in-between.
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A good book is more than anything one that makes me think.
So true Talisman!
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I have admit that I hadn't thought about the fiction/non-fiction difference and you are right their is one.
I don't read a lot of non-fiction but when I do the number one deal breaker is that they must be interesting! And not in the subject matter that they are writing about but also in how the write it.
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I agree with Sakura on this. I also fine most YA books to be far to simple for me to read with any enjoyment. And if I am honest, is the reason that even when I was a "YA" I never read young adult books unless they were so good I didn't notice
. I think that the big mistake that a lot of YA authors make is that they tend to think just because to are not 30 you can't follow a plot. There is a huge jump in what you can understand plot wise from being a young reader (under 10th) to being a bit older (14 and upwards) that they don't write for IMO.
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Wow, I see! That is a lot of money. I have the prequels too, so far I've only read one David Eddings & Leigh Eddings book so far but I own a lot of them XD. I read The Redemption of Althalus, that was pretty good. I did read some of the books back when I was a teenager in the library in Dutch, but I don't remember much about it.
On I love The Redemption of Althalus! Next to the books with spawhark in them this is my favourite one that he has writen,
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I an busy reading The Stonehenge Legacy by Sam Christer. So far it is very good and I am injoying it hugely. The plot is kind of seen and read it before, but it is well writen enough that it isn't bothering me.
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Very true, some books just have that "it" factor :-)
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