Thoughts while reading

[megwrites]

Dear Writer of the Novel I'm Currently Reading,

I want to enjoy this novel, really I do. But you're making that difficult for me.

When the protagonist, who I dearly want to like, is faced with a demonic predator who's coming straight at her takes time out of her near-death experience to reflect on the scenery and how wacky her life has become, I lose interest. Especially when you've been doing this all along.

Call me nuts, but I just don't buy that someone with newly found powers who is staring down at a possessed cougar (and not the boyfriend stealing over-40 hussy type, either) would do that. I would think that their thoughts would be more along the lines of: OMFGWTFBBQ, COUGAR?!, and then they would proceed to either run or fight or get eaten.

Right now, I'm sort of rooting for the cougar.

So, in conclusion, it's perfectly fine for a character to think about her life, and the utterly cliche "he's my ex that I hate but still love and want to have hot sex with" relationship that she's in - but maybe save it until after your heroine is not about to die.

Just a thought.

Sincerely,
Your Not So Pleased Reader

PS - Suddenly having an object appear on a character in chapter 12 when it wasn't there for the last eleven chapters and acting like it's been there all along does not help your credibility with me. Neither does suddenly talking about characters that you've not introduced and expecting me to know what's going on.

Comments

[fashionista-35.livejournal.com]

Call me nuts, but I just don't buy that someone with newly found powers who is staring down at a possessed cougar (and not the boyfriend stealing over-40 hussy type, either) would do that. I would think that their thoughts would be more along the lines of: OMFGWTFBBQ, COUGAR?!, and then they would proceed to either run or fight or get eaten.

Right now, I'm sort of rooting for the cougar.

Please, to pass over roll over paper towels. I seem to have Diet Coke all over my monitor.

[kara-gnome.livejournal.com]

hahahaah! yeah, no kidding :) Cute letter, too bad no one caught all this before it was published (??).

My letter to an author would be:

Dear writer of a novel I read 10 years ago:

Thank you so much for this lovely story full of interesting characters and a delightfully convoluted plot that is pieced together so beautifully that it's completely worth the effort. However, you completely ruin that by *stepping out of the story* in Chapter 7, and explaining to me that I am so stupid that I cannot possibly have any idea of what's happening, so therefore you will give me a plot summary, and proceed to do so, thereby turning your entire story into a complete waste of time and effort.

And yes, fyi and to summarize, I did skip to the end to see if there were any more summaries, and then I threw your stupid book across the room.

Sincerely,
Your not so grateful after all reader

Heh, couldn't resist. You know the real irony of this is that I forgot the author's name, so somewhere out there she's still lurking, waiting to ambush me with plot summaries. Oh, the things we think we'll never forget...I forget how many things that is *bg*

[denoue-moi.livejournal.com]

Wow, lame.

That's what I think when I'm in immediate danger. "Goodness gracious, denoue_moi, how do you get into these wacky situations? Oh, the shenanigans!"