Post by mdnoyon on Jan 14, 2024 23:22:25 GMT -5
If there is something that drives us to read a novel, there is something else that makes us abandon reading it. I decide to read a novel according to various elements: literary genre, author, story. I decide to generally abandon it for 2 reasons: bad writing and boring text. A few weeks ago I started with the idea of reading 2 books on Romulus , released almost at the same time and with the same title, Romulus. The founder . The first is a novel, the second a short newsstand essay. Just as it was instructive and interesting to read the essay, it was painful to start reading the novel: abuse of the 3 ellipses, as if I were a novice author, historical inaccuracies, lack of revision and amateur narration.
Abandoned after 60 pages. But I would have Phone Number List liked to have done it already at the first one. Why do we abandon reading a novel? Out of boredom, mostly. Some time ago I mentioned London's novel The Star Wanderer , which I abandoned because he was boring me. Sometimes I force myself to continue reading, perhaps the book was given to me as a gift or I paid a lot for it or simply out of masochism. In others, however, reading creates such discomfort in me that continuing it would make me moody and interrupting it to look for another book to read is a true liberation that gives satisfaction. The very search for a new reading gives, in that case, a considerable emotional charge, full of good hopes.
What do I mean by “bad writing” I mean something that shouldn't be found in a book, especially if published by a publishing house: Spelling errors : finding po , or even say instead of say , are errors that make me nervous. It's true that it doesn't take much to make me nervous, but in those cases I'm completely right. Punctuation errors : for example 4 or even 5 ellipsis ( abundandis ad abbandum!, Totò would say) and lack of space after the dots. “Printing” errors : they were called this in the past, when perhaps they were more justifiable, because each word was constructed with movable type and a carelessness could have escaped. I'm not referring to the novel about Romulus, but I'm speaking in general. Bad writing is also the absence of revision by an expert: the so-called editing and the so-called editor .
Abandoned after 60 pages. But I would have Phone Number List liked to have done it already at the first one. Why do we abandon reading a novel? Out of boredom, mostly. Some time ago I mentioned London's novel The Star Wanderer , which I abandoned because he was boring me. Sometimes I force myself to continue reading, perhaps the book was given to me as a gift or I paid a lot for it or simply out of masochism. In others, however, reading creates such discomfort in me that continuing it would make me moody and interrupting it to look for another book to read is a true liberation that gives satisfaction. The very search for a new reading gives, in that case, a considerable emotional charge, full of good hopes.
What do I mean by “bad writing” I mean something that shouldn't be found in a book, especially if published by a publishing house: Spelling errors : finding po , or even say instead of say , are errors that make me nervous. It's true that it doesn't take much to make me nervous, but in those cases I'm completely right. Punctuation errors : for example 4 or even 5 ellipsis ( abundandis ad abbandum!, Totò would say) and lack of space after the dots. “Printing” errors : they were called this in the past, when perhaps they were more justifiable, because each word was constructed with movable type and a carelessness could have escaped. I'm not referring to the novel about Romulus, but I'm speaking in general. Bad writing is also the absence of revision by an expert: the so-called editing and the so-called editor .