Important Question

[backupdump002]

Throwing this up here real quick while I'm thinking about it.

Internet, what is the main thing that you look for in a story? Three-dimensional characters? Intriguing plot? Breathtaking world/atmosphere? What is the one thing where, even if everything else about the story sucks, you'd keep following it anyway because your interest in that overshadows everything else? Just, you know, if you had to pick.

GO.

Comments

[tigerboat.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna go ahead and say characters. The only book I've hated so much that I stopped reading it just went between terrible character after terrible character. I just realized I was forcing myself to read it and didn't actually care what happened to them.

Of course, if a story's about time travel I'll read it no matter what. There's just something about time travel that's magical.

[puddinchan.livejournal.com]

Then Prof. Layton 3 is right up your alley! |3

If the time travel makes no sense and has nothing to add to the plot, then it just... sucks.

[tigerboat.livejournal.com]

MYSTERY PUZZLES TIME TRAVEL AAAAAAA
PROFESSOR LAYTON 3, I WANT YOU

TIME TRAVEL ALWAYS MAKES SENSE AND HAS SOMETHING TO ADD
...not that I've ever read a truly, horribly bad time travel thing. BUT STILL. TIME TRAVEL IS GREAT.

[puddinchan.livejournal.com]

YOU NEED PROF LAYTON 2 FIRST

YOU HAVEN'T SEEN SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2006 THEN

[doxinator.livejournal.com]

Yeeeah, it seems like every time I stop following a story it's usually because the characters are too boring for me to continue. The plot could be nothing but "defeat the bad guy and save the princess," but if it has well-rounded and realistic characters I'd still think it was a great story and just as unique as anything else.

Haha, I'm the same way with mysteries. I LOVE ME A GOOD MYSTERY. And psychological thriller-type things.

[tigerboat.livejournal.com]

Not only did my...hate-book have boring characters, it had about 20 boring main characters and switched between them all the time. I always forgot what the last one had been doing by the time he came around again. It was a long, long book and I only got half-way through when I gave up on it. I almost never give up on books! That thing was terrible.

I SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED MYSTERIES they are my second favourite to time travel. One of my proudest, braggingest moments is reading through the entire Sherlock Holmes collection in about a week. I would re-read it, too. Possibly even re-re-read it.