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.Finished the James Patterson (still not a fan) and now reading Don't Try to Find Me by Holly Brown.
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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.Finished the James Patterson (still not a fan) and now reading Don't Try to Find Me by Holly Brown.
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'm glad somebody 'got' it!!
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.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 gymoment (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.
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.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 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 nutsI 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.
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.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.
Ray Bradbury, The October Country