Here’s a minor collection of comments from our book club from the last couple of meetings that made my brain break.
Paraphrased, but pretty close:
“I don’t read anything but the dialogue parts.”
“Why would I read the prologue? That’s just author yap. Same for epilogues.”
“I don’t like stories that have a plot.”
“I literally never read a prologue on principle alone. If it’s that important, it should be in the book.”
Note: This isn’t everyone in the club, but maybe over half *never* read the prologue. That stunned me.
Only one of them was a “I only read dialogue.”
About three of them were anti-plot/story arcs and instead prefer characters that experience zero growth or change, and dislike a three-act story.
Some (but not most) won’t read if it isn’t in the first person.
When I was younger, I might skip a forward, but the actual beginning and end of a book? Why on earth would you do that?
I was amazed at the replies I got from the “talker only” folks when I asked what they pictured the protagonists looking like or how they were feeling about the setting.
I guess everyone has things they like and don’t…it just amazes me that so many “readers” aren’t members of “the clean plate club.”
“More than 160 troops contract flu at Texas base after Hegseth lifts vaccine order, saying the vaccines were ridiculous overreach.”
The US government leadership should not kneel to the wishes of the dumbest ding dongs on earth because they started that bus towards the cliff after cutting the brake lines.
But here we are since 2016. Death, injury all from a few morons listening to and scared of idiot voters not turning out.
He directly led to a million people in America dying during Covid. Rapist. Pedo. Criminal. Traitor. Fraudster. Bottom-feeding Mobster. Con Man.
He doesn’t care about any of those awful acts. But the one thing getting to him personally is the Reflecting Pool debacle, and his anger and misery at that, if nothing else affects his hollow soul, is making me happy. It is making him so very deranged, upset, and irritated.
It’s why I will never tire of the Reflecting Pool dunks on him.
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