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

[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.