2007-07-24 15:27:25 · 9 answers · asked by White 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
The ideas contained within. I like books that spark something inside me. I appreciate authors who use language in interesting ways... the more expressive and descriptive (but not needlessly cluttered) the better.
That being said... I'll read anything. I am not a book snob. What makes a book worth reading is the journey from beginning to end... getting sucked for a time into another world. I know it's a good book when I don't want it to end... when I dwell in the author's world a bit too long, and almost mourn coming out of that world. It's the experience.
2007-07-24 18:26:29 · answer #1 · answered by Mikisew 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I read mostly nonfiction, so it's got to be somewhat bizarre in subject matter ( *bizarre* as in what people did in ancient cultures: cannibalism- stuff like that, reading about women who've undergone horrible times in their lives and have gotten through it- I just read a book about a woman who had OCD and she had gotten 5 plastic surgeries done on her by the age of 24) I sell books, so pretty much anything that isn't a romance novel or something you'd buy at the grocery store. If I am so entranced by a book that I stay up until 5AM with my Mighty Brite Book Light, it's definitely a book worth reading. (And that was "Scar Tissue" by Anthony Kiedis-great book.)
2007-07-24 22:36:08 · answer #2 · answered by PURR GIRL TORI 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When i read the first page or chapter it just has to grab my attention to keep on reading. Also romance books is a big bonus points for me to actually think the book is worth reading.
i love reading romance books it's so like lovey dovey lol and with some drama and probably with some suspense.
2007-07-24 22:30:52 · answer #3 · answered by Orange? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Has to get my attention immediately... I'm into mysteries and history, and of historical mysteries, lol. It also has to be well-written and had some acquaintance with a proof reader. I once gave up on a book by a very famous author because it was so clumsy, and the spelling was so bad, I just couldn't work through it.
2007-07-25 01:03:03 · answer #4 · answered by Baby'sMom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when it's a book that's very descriptive, but not too descriptive because then that would make it slower. is interesting and has a genera that appeals to my taste.
2007-07-24 22:33:52 · answer #5 · answered by Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love a good "True Crime" story from Anne Rule.
2007-07-24 22:31:52 · answer #6 · answered by johN p. aka-Hey you. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the suspense and the story, then you wont mind missing polls and surveys for reading it.
2007-07-24 22:31:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it has to grab my attention by the first chapter, if i get bored i can't finish it.
2007-07-24 22:33:24 · answer #8 · answered by nicole f 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
something I can learn
2007-07-24 22:31:51 · answer #9 · answered by bethybug 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋