When is it time to throw the book across the room?

[Guest]

Thread jack!

 

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And. Breathe. Rant (and thread jack!) over.

Q

 

 

Not yet...

 

And the sodium... We have a 14-year-old that goes to the Jiu-jitsu school my son goes to... he is on this super diet because he wants to make this weight class in his High School Wrestling team... he passed out in school, ended up in a coma in the hospital for a few hours because his body got sodium depletion - there's a technical term for it, can't remember it now. It sounds like hypothermia.  I'm too lazy to look it up.

 

Okay, threadjack over.

[pam]

Hyponatremia?

[Guest]

Hyponatremia?

 

That sounds like the one.

[SGMan]

At the present time, I myself am reading Stephen King's It, a book I am sure no one here would or has read before.

I only get annoyed with books if they are too easy, or boring-especially boring!

I really enjoyed 'The Stand'. Never got to 'It'.

[Lakumi]

I really enjoyed 'The Stand'. Never got to 'It'.

 

I liked the short story, "The Body" (which was made into the famous movie, Stand By Me) I do believe it was also in the same story as Shawshank Redemption, which my 11th grade English class read in class, and the end of it, watching the movie.

[classylady]

I'll stop reading a book when it doesn't flow. If the writing is choppy, I get very annoyed.

 

I skip over parts of a book that are too descriptive. If it's necessary description, then I'm okay with it. But, if we're going into endless detail over what a character is wearing, the accessories that go with it, or detailing every room in a house, where it is not warranted in the storyline, then I go insane. I'll either chuck the book or skip many paragraphs to get to the meat of the story.

[Guest]

If the book says it's written by Danielle Steel..

[Quin]

I'll stop reading a book when it doesn't flow. If the writing is choppy, I get very annoyed.

 

I skip over parts of a book that are too descriptive. If it's necessary description, then I'm okay with it. But, if we're going into endless detail over what a character is wearing, the accessories that go with it, or detailing every room in a house, where it is not warranted in the storyline, then I go insane. I'll either chuck the book or skip many paragraphs to get to the meat of the story.

Sounds like you'd love love love Elmore Leonard's style of writing.

He's written something like a gazillion (okay, more like 40 or 50, so not that many) books, although so many of them have been turned into films & tv series it seems like more (Get Shorty, Justified, etc.).

He's almost pathological about using as little description as possible.

Actors & Directors love him, because his stories create these huge outlines for them to play in.

Readers split 50/50. Between those who love/need imagery in a story, and those who hate it and skip over.

Q

[Guest]

One paragraph... even one sentence... chapters... * pointed look at Patterson*.

 

The medium - chapters, paragraphs, page count, page heading, fonts, etc. - are supposed to be invisible to the reader... one sentence chapters just throws me all the way out of the book to wonder... hey, is this a misprint?  Where's the rest of the chapter?

 

Drives me nuts.

[Backroads]

 

 

On the other hand, I remember getting to a point in Atlas Shrugged where I wanted to throw it across the room.  I put it down--and never picked it up again.  But that was different because the author was promoting a certain philosophy, one I did not agree with--really Dagny? Just change partners like you change shoes?  Ugh.  

 

But believe it or not I don't really have an anger problem.  I'm just passionate about my reading apparently.  

 

 

 

"Atlas Shrugged" is a pretty hefty book to heave across the room...

[Backroads]

I'll get in trouble for this as I know Pam is a fan, but...

 

Anything akin to the Worlds of the Crystal Moon.  Those books sum up for me everything I hate in a hated book.

[pam]

I'll get in trouble for this as I know Pam is a fan, but...

 

Anything akin to the Worlds of the Crystal Moon.  Those books sum up for me everything I hate in a hated book.

Nahhh you won't get in trouble.  Yep I love that series but it's not for everyone.

[Backroads]

Safe!

[Bini]

Spoiler alert! I guess I won't bother reading some of these LOL.

 

Unless, everyone was mostly talking about the movies, which I'm surprised y'all actually liked them. I found Hunger Games to be okay, and Divergent to be quite terrible.

[bytebear]

Not throwing it across the room, but if I have no interest in continuing the story at the end of a chapter, I won't get past 3 or 4 chapters before getting bored. The best books are those where I have to force myself to stop reading.