Re: Why I Like Certain Books And Not Others!


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Posted by andyb on February 29, 2008 at 22:51:05 from 86.165.104.201 user beardbiter.

In Reply to: Re: Why I Like Certain Books And Not Others! posted by Owen Roberts on February 29, 2008 at 22:02:46:

Well I like all the books but some more than others. I suspect each and everyone of them is someone's favourite because they have an affinity with the location, a penchant for the activity or maybe just love a character or scene. Or again maybe re-reading it brings back memories, maybe even it's my favourite because it's the last one I read.
Perhaps the stretching suspension of disbelief bit is particularly important for AR because he uses a realist or hyper-realist genre.There is a useful distinction between implausible and improbable.I don't think ML is implausible, there is a well established genre of 'families at sea books' based on 'real-life' events and another, sadly perhaps more plausible now than ever, of kidnap and hostage stories.It's just improbable that the same children who get blown across the North Sea, get captured by Chinese pirates and discover the first nesting great northern divers. SA isn't improbable as such, although the neatly narrative plot structure makes it rather implausible. The whole premise of PM is implausible but in a satisfyingly self-exemplifying way, to me at least the way everyone is sucked into Nancy's plan mirrors the way the reader gets drawn into the narrative; everytime we start to think 'now hold on a minute this is going to end in tears' we get swept along by the pace of Nancy's plotting.
A final point, I don't quite equate 'most read' with 'favourite'. Much as I admire WMT I don't read it often; it's quite exciting but I know what happens so the suspense is diminished.
PS PP is a fine book but my least favourite of the Lake books; perhaps PH would like to expand on why that book in particular.


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