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Do you have a favorite writing style or technique?
Writing style's probably the most important factor of a book for me. Because typically if I don't like the writing style, I get bored, even if I love the storyline. Ex. Color Blind by Jonathan Santlofer. I still haven't gotten through the ARC of that despite how excited I was when I first heard about it.
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I enjoy detail...to a certain extent. I like it when the author presents enough details, not only of the situation but of the surroundings so that I can create that mental picture because I am a very visual person, I love creating my own idea of the scene. But, I don't like it when an author takes five or six pages to explain a location or an event.
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I like details too, especially if an author mentions someone or something, i like to know what the person's or things (Ex.Dog) name. I also like things that are Humerous. Humerous writing keeps me interested and if they combine it with drama, it usally makes a good book for me.
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I like it when it is simple and to the point. Not simple like just writing in short sentences or having a limited vocabulary. But simple as in not making things complicated. Some authors like to describe a situation or a landscape or whatever with a lot of big words and imagery and it just gets confusing and boring after a while. It doesn't paint a picture in the head at all. Like, if the description is supposed to be about the rainy weather where the story takes place, then just use one paragraph to describe the weather, not 2 pages!!!
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I also like when the author describes a character's (esp the main character's) emotionas and thought process for the charatcer development of the story. Humor and or suspense and plot twists are a plus. |
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For me it's not so much the writing style but the tone and atmosphere the language is able to set up. Sometimes it's done with detail...sometimes simplistically...
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Speaking about style I must say that I love somerset maugham’s style and language
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