If you get through Don't Try to Find Me, let me know how it ends! I couldn't get through it. It started good, but dragged on and on for me.
What Are You Reading?
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Don't you mean:
1- Finished the
2- James Patter.....
3- .....son.....
4- (still not a fan) and
5- now reading
6- Don't Try To
7- Find Me
8- by
9- Holly Brown.
I'm glad somebody 'got' it!!
I gave up on Patterson when everyone else started writing his books but yep, those 1 page chapters were annoying. It works once in a while. But every darn page?I'm glad somebody 'got' it!!
Ayuh! I stuck with him with his Alex Cross books but once he had a co-writer for those I gave up on him. He's all about being a 'brand', not about good writing.I gave up on Patterson when everyone else started writing his books but yep, those 1 page chapters were annoying. It works once in a while. But every darn page?
I like short chapters as much as anybody, but when each one is a page and a half it's just unnecessary.
I only read it because I needed something easy and it was just sitting there at the gym (people donate books to borrow).
Even for easy, it was a disappointing waste of time.
I only read it because I needed something easy and it was just sitting there at the gym (people donate books to borrow).
Even for easy, it was a disappointing waste of time.
We're not judging you......yet.
I used to love to read Patterson's books, but he publishes a new one every 15 minutes anymore and I just couldn't keep up.
We're not judging you......yet.
Like you mentioned before, I was a fan with the first couple Alex Cross books, then he had all these different franchises with all these different "co-authors" (uh huh) and that's why the one I just finished was probably the first I've read in a over a decade. And the last I'll read overall.
Short chapters work best with humor or action, but some books take it to the extreme. It's a 'thing' in publishing now: I had an editor that wanted to split chapters in unnatural places (a chapter should have an 'arc' as much as a story has an arc) tell me that people have tiny attention spans now and that a chapter has to be 'just long enough for the average s*it break'. Thus, teeny tiny chapters. I hate that so much.I gave up on Patterson when everyone else started writing his books but yep, those 1 page chapters were annoying. It works once in a while. But every darn page?
I love short chapters. THe book can be as thick as thick can be, but if those chapters are short, it pulls me along to the point I'm 100 pages deep before I realize it.
I don't mind them if they are written to be that way--I just finished and enjoyed The Girl With All The Gifts, and it's full of teeny chapters that are that way intentionally. It's chopping a natural chapter into two, three, or four teeny chapters, just so each is only a page to three long, that drives me nuts
skimom2 I started A Son Of The Circus last night. I've laughed already and haven't even made it to chapter three, yet. It's definitely a different vibe and difficult to pick out where the story is going but so far so good. I plan on taking your advice and sticking with it until the end.
Good idea. That was one where I had a difficult time finding the passage into the story, but once I did I really enjoyed it. Twisted River was the same for me.
Ray Bradbury, The October Country
Just finished reading The Fireman. Fast paced page turner. Only bogged down once, but I think it was because of interruptions. Wish I had made a list of the all the "Easter Eggs". Smiled in so many place -- there is another one!. This gets a two thumbs up.
This is my favorite collection of Ray's. I've probably said this before but the stories in this book remind me of my grandfather. Actually, my grandfather and Ray Bradbury seemed to be a lot alike. They were both born in the same year and in the same state. My grandfather was a big sci-fi fan too. What gets me about this book is all the carnival stories. My grandfather always had carnival stories. He was from a small town where not much happened and the carnivals were a big deal. My grandfather even lived next door to a professional wrestler that wrestled the carnival circuit. Anyway, these stories are a slice of life that actually existed. Whenever I read Bradbury, it always reminds me some of my grandfather but this book in particular.
Re short chapters.... I am not against them, i think a chapter, just like the story the chapter is a part of, should have its beginning and end. So short chapters, if they are intended so are ok but when they, as in Patterson, gets so tiny the sentence dont even have time to be finished it is just silly.
...Joe Hill used a couple in NOS4A2, but they were used to bridge past & present.....so, that doesn't bother me....Koontz is guilty of it-but I don't mind, cuz if I feel like stopping-I can finish one of that style instead of trying to make the slog through a buncha pages before I conk out for the night.....
While I was waiting for Nick at the library, I started a book called A Gathering of Shadows. It was fast paced and pretty interesting...and then I realized it's the second in a series 
Had to order the first one from another branch, and while I was doing that, I reserved M.R. Carey's new one. Hope to get them by next week!
I've been thinking about the Blackwater series again, kingricefan . I think I have to order them from Thriftbooks Thank you again for the recommend.
Had to order the first one from another branch, and while I was doing that, I reserved M.R. Carey's new one. Hope to get them by next week!I've been thinking about the Blackwater series again, kingricefan . I think I have to order them from Thriftbooks
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