Comments on: The “Ten things I hate to see in a book” meme… https://glendalarke.com/2006/05/ten-things-i-hate-to-see-in-book-meme/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:37:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/05/ten-things-i-hate-to-see-in-book-meme/#comment-25151 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:41:42 +0000 #comment-25151 I totally agree with you on number three. Horrible isn't it? And aren't pictures almost the same with mirrors because they show what you look like? Didn't Shale look at his picture once?

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/05/ten-things-i-hate-to-see-in-book-meme/#comment-25150 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 01:57:00 +0000 #comment-25150 I have seen the dream thing done right. ONCE. The great cartoonist Carl Barks, author of the finest Donald Duck comics, once drew a story which – he must have realized – had a somewhat excessive ending (the super-rich Uncle Scrooge built a whole stairway on the side of a mountain, made of gold coins), so he changed the ending to be a dream. The reason it worked is that he did not make the final revelation linger, but moved on the story to a joke ending: “Uncle Scrooge had a penny left over, and when he offered to spend it for a soda, I knew I was dreaming!” Not much of a joke, of course, but essential to move the story’s ending away from the cliched “Oh, it was only a dream” moment. The point is not to linger portentously on a cliche’ as if it were anything significant.

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/05/ten-things-i-hate-to-see-in-book-meme/#comment-25149 Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:11:00 +0000 #comment-25149 now I don’t feel so bad about never reading Ulysses, although I am intrigued

]]> By: Bernita https://glendalarke.com/2006/05/ten-things-i-hate-to-see-in-book-meme/#comment-25148 Sat, 13 May 2006 05:46:00 +0000 #comment-25148 Always hated the mirror thingy.
Blogged about it today.

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2006/05/ten-things-i-hate-to-see-in-book-meme/#comment-25147 Thu, 11 May 2006 17:58:00 +0000 #comment-25147 I don’t mind dream sequences that are there for a reason and which readers know are dreams…but fooling them – in books or on TV – has always seemed a bit underhand to me. And usually purposeless.

The mirror-shiny surface thing used to be good. It’s just once of those handy things that has been done to death.

]]> By: chocolatetrudi https://glendalarke.com/2006/05/ten-things-i-hate-to-see-in-book-meme/#comment-25146 Thu, 11 May 2006 16:48:00 +0000 #comment-25146 1. Done that! *blush*

2. Can’t believe people still do that.

6. Yeah, that’s *too much* realism for me. And goes with 5.

10. Lol! Isn’t Ulysses supposed to be “the best book ever written?”. I have a copy (was free) than I keep to show people when they say fantasy isn’t as good as the classics. Or just to bring out to have a laugh.

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2006/05/ten-things-i-hate-to-see-in-book-meme/#comment-25145 Thu, 11 May 2006 04:54:00 +0000 #comment-25145 Lol!! Yes, that sounds like something I wouldn’t like too…

]]> By: eyeris https://glendalarke.com/2006/05/ten-things-i-hate-to-see-in-book-meme/#comment-25144 Thu, 11 May 2006 02:47:00 +0000 #comment-25144 11) reading long descriptions of characters that involve their history, medical background, training and blood type, only to find that the bloody author kills him off in the next chapter.

That’s the main reason why I never read a single Tom Clancy book EVER AGAIN.

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