Okay, its for everyone who loves to read?

Question

What makes a fiction good?

In other words, what aspect of a fiction makes u like it?

Answer 1

I like a couple things that my friends also seem to like:
1) Unresolved conflict
2) Secrets that don't get revealed 'til the end (the kind that you can't guess half-way through)
3) A story that either spans a long time or covers a short time but moves right along. If the pacing is bad or the descriptions overly intricate (like Melvillle), I get bored.
4) Characters who are both evil and awesome at the same time. So sometime I cheer for the bad guy who does good things or I feel for the good guy who does bad things. A terrible example of this would be the guys in the Ocean's movies. Of course I like them and want to see them get away, and yet they are felons. (I can't think of a better example as I type at 3am, maybe after a coffee.)
5) A reasonable story; whether it is historical fiction or science fiction, I am turned off by an author who hasn't done the homework. I never want to say, "Oh come on, that didn't (or couldn't ever) happen".

Answer 2

A novel doesn't have to be non-fiction in order to have truth in it. What seperates a fiction book with an epic novel is the humanity of the words. Each of the characters must face at least one tramatic moral dilemma which makes the reader ask themselves, "What would I do in that situation?" The classic example of a moral dilemma is an out of control train speeding down a railroad which splits into two tracks, one track has 5 middle-aged men and women tied down to it. The other track has a single infant tied to the track. You have two seconds to decide: which track do you go on? You cannot stop the train and you can't save them all. Do you save the baby who has not yet had a chance to live? Or do you save the 5 people who had half a life? After all, the five people are the majority, and as the saying goes, "majority rules." But can you kill an innocent baby crying on the railroad? This is the type of dilemma that each of the main characters (both the good guys and the bad guys) must meet and overcome. Heroes are not perfect. The protagonist is usually an ordinary person placed under extrodinary events. An epic must show the humanity in the hero. We all have the tendancy to do evil or wrong, so how does the protagonist overcome these urges and do his impossible duty of righteousness? All bad men aren't entirely evil. A man who does wrong always convinces himself that what he is doing is actually right and good. Even Hitler believed he was doing the world a favor when he killed 6 million Jews. An epic novel must show the antagonist's struggle between his dark side and what little goodness is in his heart. An epic novel must show why the antagonist commits evil acts. Why did the bad man hurt so many innocent people? What is his justification? Only once the reader can truly enter the minds of the characters and deeply feel like they are those characters does a fiction book become an epic novel. An epic novel is not just the telling of a fantastic tale, it is the testiment to the souls of humanity. It is the documentation of the true heart of our species. It is the proof of our overcoming our basic instincts and at the same time, it is evidence that we are still chained by undeniable urges written into our DNA. It is the writing of the moral truth behind our deepest pits into our consciences. An epic is the heartfire of us all, it reaches deep into our souls, breathes new life into our darkest thoughts, and reguvinates our overworked hearts. In short, an epic novel is a testament to how far we as a species have come and how far we have yet to go.

Answer 3

The characters. When I read a really good fictional book if the characters are well developed if they are in trouble or something bad happens to them I'm like Oh no or I start to feel sorry for them or happy for them. Sometimes if the main character is a girl I see myself as her. Also it needs to be descriptive, when I read a book I can see the whole thing in my head if it's very descriptive I can see it like the author would like to portray it if not I pretty much make up how it would look!!!! lol

Answer 4

Different aspects appeal to different readers, which is why we have the rich variety of fiction available to us.
I love reading books that have literary allusions, but anopther reader may not even spot them. It doesn't take away the effectiveness of the book.
People are all different, so there are many different wrting styles. Well constructed prose makes good fiction, at whatever level.

Answer 5

When it flows just like life, from one situation to another in a seamless way. Just like when you get up in the morning and start your daily routine, if a book moves in sequences that flow as the words are read from one to the other throughout the entire book, that makes it a good read. If the words do the same thing but instill a sense of grandeur and action at the same time, that is a great book. In my opinion.

Answer 6

Fo science- fiction, that the argument has certain scientific basis. For example, what Jules Vernes used to do, proyecting fiction that eventually became real, as all the fiction was based on scientific theories of his time with a development of its own imagination.

Answer 7

Lots of things: mystery, interesting plot, identifiable characters (love or hate), and a satisfactory ending. I personally cannot stand slow-moving starts, books that ramble on about nothing, or are just plain boring. There needs to be a hook within the first few paragraphs; if not, I'm not intrigued and I will often set the book down. I do not like books that closely mirror other books, but claim to be originals (ie: Eragon).

Answer 8

I like books in which the other 'magical' world just sort of melts out of the real one. Like it was there all along but nobody ever noticed it until Edward Cullen, Hagrid, ect.
I also really liked the His Dark Materials series. He really shows how there are no bad people. There is only cause and effect. Like in the last book when you see the main vileness and you hear her thoughts of love and how scared she is. It almost made me cry, I felt so sorry for her. I like a book that tells me how they were scared. This is why they did it, not because she was wicked, because Galinda framed her.

Answer 9

Some of them because its feel the same as you ever experience (that's one of the reason people likes romance, everybody felt it once or twice or even more), sometimes it took you away from reality (like fantasy) and give your imagination a feast, makes you forget the reality that so stressing.
Sometimes for the detail in it, the secrets that makes you wondering (like Harry Potter and all the detective mystery book) or the character that you feel related to you, the story that so touching and deep, or even because the lesson in it. it always fun (at least for me) to find a great lesson hide beneath a great story (like LOTR), it makes reading worth more.
all those reason makes me want to read the book, and sometimes just simply because of curiousity.

Answer 10

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