forum Things You Want LESS Of In Books

Started January 21, 2019 by @HighPockets group

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Thank you. I would politely like to suggest that A Wizard of Earthsea has a hint of the same splendor.

I was referring to The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh with my original comment, it's a duology but so. much. of the first book was filler :/ felt like it could've just been a standalone, and I might have actually liked it if it had been.

Have you read The Wrath and the Dawn?

I was referring to The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh with my original comment, it's a duology but so. much. of the first book was filler :/ felt like it could've just been a standalone, and I might have actually liked it if it had been.

Have you read The Wrath and the Dawn?

No, is it worth it? I've heard mixed reviews.

I was referring to The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh with my original comment, it's a duology but so. much. of the first book was filler :/ felt like it could've just been a standalone, and I might have actually liked it if it had been.

Have you read The Wrath and the Dawn?

No, is it worth it? I've heard mixed reviews.

I enjoyed it, but that doesn't mean you would lol

I enjoyed it quite a bit. I think the second book wasn't quite as good, but it was decent. I also wasn't really being critical when I read it (surprising I know). My mom had gotten it and I would sneakread anything that looked interesting.

Maybe I'll have to read it then!

Checked it up on Goodreads to remember. Has instalove pretty much and also a love triangle so…
Yeah there's worse stuff…
You'll hate it or love it and if I reread it I wouldn't like it nearly as much.
Be that as it may, I read the very first part of Henry V and the bishops' speech is so educated and I love it.

Wait Dom do you have a goodreads

Nah. I just realized it's a decent place to search book stuff.

Checked it up on Goodreads to remember. Has instalove pretty much and also a love triangle so…
Yeah there's worse stuff…
You'll hate it or love it and if I reread it I wouldn't like it nearly as much.
Be that as it may, I read the very first part of Henry V and the bishops' speech is so educated and I love it.

The context of Henry IV Part 1 makes the bishops' speech about Henry hit different

Also I need you know know that I played Hostess/Mistress Quickly and also Montjoy/French Messenger so yeah
Imagine me as them if you want lmao

Checked it up on Goodreads to remember. Has instalove pretty much and also a love triangle so…
Yeah there's worse stuff…
You'll hate it or love it and if I reread it I wouldn't like it nearly as much.
Be that as it may, I read the very first part of Henry V and the bishops' speech is so educated and I love it.

The context of Henry IV Part 1 makes the bishops' speech about Henry hit different

Yeah I'm not gonna read that bc I'm not even sure I'll finish Henry V this century.

Checked it up on Goodreads to remember. Has instalove pretty much and also a love triangle so…
Yeah there's worse stuff…
You'll hate it or love it and if I reread it I wouldn't like it nearly as much.
Be that as it may, I read the very first part of Henry V and the bishops' speech is so educated and I love it.

The context of Henry IV Part 1 makes the bishops' speech about Henry hit different

Yeah I'm not gonna read that bc I'm not even sure I'll finish Henry V this century.

I haven't read them either lol, one of my classmates just did a monologue from it F

Checked it up on Goodreads to remember. Has instalove pretty much and also a love triangle so…
Yeah there's worse stuff…
You'll hate it or love it and if I reread it I wouldn't like it nearly as much.
Be that as it may, I read the very first part of Henry V and the bishops' speech is so educated and I love it.

The context of Henry IV Part 1 makes the bishops' speech about Henry hit different

Yeah I'm not gonna read that bc I'm not even sure I'll finish Henry V this century.

I haven't read them either lol, one of my classmates just did a monologue from it F

HA i'm in the middle of Henry IV Part 2

Nice!

Ooh thoughts on the Boar's Head characters?
_{Don't @ me, the only bits of it I've read were the Boar's Head parts when I played Hostess Quickly last summer lol}

ssss I haven't gotten that far, I'm still in Act I Scene I lmao

Oof nevermind lmao
You said "middle" so I was like OH SHE'S MET THEM!!!

I use "Middle" as like…not actually in the middle but not in the beginning either? Idk lmao
but I generally read Shakespeare stuff doing an Act a night, then reading something else because my brain can't take too much Shakespeare without breaking, so last nght I finished Act I and then read "Stay Gold"

I kinda hate resurrection in books. Not in like a "reanimating a corpse" way, but in a "Character X died and so we just magically brought them back more or less unharmed" way. It just feels like a cheap way to get an emotional response from readers without actually committing to the death, and also lowers the stakes for the rest of the book, because if you resurrect one character, why should I believe that you'll actually kill off another?
Although I do like a good botched resurrection-

I think it just has to be handled very carefully and done well.

I've got a resurrection in my story, of Henry, but it's more of…like his body is in a coma and Richard has to save his soul? It's not a true resurrection I suppose, because Henry never actually died, they just thought he did

I guess I almost have a resurrection with Cordelia, but she's not dead yet when Arthur saves her. She's mortally wounded, but the Pond water (long story) heals her and also triggers her latent fae magic, oops!

big oops lol but yeah. See, I think that resurrections just have to be handled very carefully, and done well. But yeah, most of the time resurrections are just cheap ways for authors to cheat death

I have one resurrection in Althalos, but it’s because he’s assumed dead for very good reasons and would be dead except he was helped to escape. It also launches important social/cultural change so there’s that too.

Resurrection have to be done really really well for me to be ok with it Spoilers for the Final Artemis Fowl Book below