Do you like books with quirky characters and large casts, or the fewer the better? Modern riffs on old myths or classic stories? Are you more a gritty urban type, a seafarer, a wilderness buff? When you pick up a book, are you looking for a Great Idea, a sense-of-wonder immersion in another time or place, or just a subtle tweak on our world that puts a new perspective on things? Do you like tried-and-true tropes, or stuff you're not likely to have seen before?
What are some of your favorites, classic or modern? Can you identify why, or what hooked you?
Quirky, believable characters are what really make excited to keep reading, so those are always great. I'm not a huge fan of huge casts, I tend to like tight knit groups of 3-7 people that play off each other. I don't have any preferences for setting, with the sole exception of 1920's New Orleans, for reasons I don't fully understand. Great Ideas and immersion are some of the most important things I look for. Reading something new and strange I never would have thought of and having it brought to life is something magical. This also means that I tend to look for things that have unique premises I've never seen before.
Neil Gaiman books are always a favorite, just because of the way his writing sucks me in and the feeling of magic I get. Saga is a comic series that I love, its just filled with bizarre concepts and characters that I utterly unique and likable. Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler books are great fun, the way they use character to twist your expectations and mislead you is great.
Now that I'm writing this all down, this reminds me a lot of the Miyazaki movies I love. Quirky, relatable characters in fantastical places, where the focus is more on character and the mood the world creates, rather than the fine rules and details.
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Do you like books with quirky characters and large casts, or the fewer the better? Modern riffs on old myths or classic stories? Are you more a gritty urban type, a seafarer, a wilderness buff? When you pick up a book, are you looking for a Great Idea, a sense-of-wonder immersion in another time or place, or just a subtle tweak on our world that puts a new perspective on things? Do you like tried-and-true tropes, or stuff you're not likely to have seen before?
What are some of your favorites, classic or modern? Can you identify why, or what hooked you?
Quirky, believable characters are what really make excited to keep reading, so those are always great. I'm not a huge fan of huge casts, I tend to like tight knit groups of 3-7 people that play off each other. I don't have any preferences for setting, with the sole exception of 1920's New Orleans, for reasons I don't fully understand. Great Ideas and immersion are some of the most important things I look for. Reading something new and strange I never would have thought of and having it brought to life is something magical. This also means that I tend to look for things that have unique premises I've never seen before.
Neil Gaiman books are always a favorite, just because of the way his writing sucks me in and the feeling of magic I get. Saga is a comic series that I love, its just filled with bizarre concepts and characters that I utterly unique and likable. Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler books are great fun, the way they use character to twist your expectations and mislead you is great.
Now that I'm writing this all down, this reminds me a lot of the Miyazaki movies I love. Quirky, relatable characters in fantastical places, where the focus is more on character and the mood the world creates, rather than the fine rules and details.