What elements are, in your opinion, necessary to make a good book?
Is it interesting characters? Or believable motivations? Maybe writing style? Is the world building?...
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Is it interesting characters? Or believable motivations? Maybe writing style? Is the world building?...
Like, increased empathy or altered your perspective a bit....
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3463478...
I’m really looking forward to More Than Fools Fill Graves, a novella from the Gentleman Bastards series by Scott Lynch that’s supposed to release sometime this year 🤞...
It apparently comes out next January but man… I need it now!
I was a Percy Jackson lover 100%
I still to this day don’t understand the point that book served. I don’t know if it was just a product of its time but I don’t think a bunch of children would behave like that in the event of being stranded
A bit criticism to the Silmarillion is that the style is very dry and the plot is disconnected....
I have been reading the English translations and the characters and especially their dialogues feel very fake. I do appreciate the hard science aspect of the books but the long monologues, kids speaking like middle-aged philosophers, and army personnel being one-dimensional macho men breaks the immersion for me. It has the depth...